Installing Graphite on Ubuntu 12.10. Sadly, it's 2013, and this is the quickest procedure I could come up with. Special criticism goes out to the packaging of Graphite, Carbon and pycairo. Anyhow, see the `install.sh`, it's meant to read as copy-think-and-paste instructions.

config.js

{
  graphitePort: 2003,
  graphiteHost: "localhost",
  port: 8125,
  backends: [ "./backends/graphite" ]
}

graphite-nginx.conf

upstream django {
  server unix:/tmp/uwsgi-graphite.sock;
}

server {
  server_name graphite-local.shootitlive.com;
  listen 80;

  location / {
    include uwsgi_params;
    uwsgi_pass   django;
  }
}

graphite-uwsgi.ini

[uwsgi]
vacuum = true
master = true
processes = 8
pidfile = /tmp/uwsgi-graphite.pid
socket = /tmp/uwsgi-graphite.sock
chmod-socket = 666
gid = graphite
uid = graphite
pythonpath = /opt/graphite/webapp
pymodule-alias = graphite.local_settings=/opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/local_settings.py
module = wsgi
buffer-size = 65536

install.sh

sudo adduser graphite
sudo mkdir /opt/graphite
sudo chown graphite:graphite /opt/graphite
cd /opt/graphite
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
# Download files from this gist to $(pwd)
pip install -r requirements.txt

# pip install pycairo doesn't work because "cairo doesn't use setup tools",
# wtf? Well, we'll just have to resort to this kind of idiocy to get a simple
# standard package set up.
pushd /tmp
sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev
curl http://cairographics.org/releases/py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2 | tar xvj
cd py2cairo-1.10.0
./waf configure --prefix=/opt/graphite/env
./waf build && ./waf install
popd

pip install graphite-web carbon
pushd webapp/graphite
cp local_settings.py{.example,}
echo "SECRET_KEY='$(tr -dc "[:alpha:]" < /dev/urandom | head -c 15)'" >> app_settings.py
echo "$(cat <<EOF
ALLOWED_HOSTS = [ "*" ]
DATABASES = {
  "default": {
    "NAME": "/opt/graphite/storage/graphite.db",
    "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.sqlite3"
  }
}
EOF
)" > local_settings.py

echo "$(cat <<EOF
#This is the wsgi target that lives under the webapp subdirectory

import os, sys
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'graphite.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi

application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
EOF
)" > wsgi.py

python manage.py syncdb
# Answer questions and provide a default password, it will be used to login to
# graphite-web.
popd

pushd conf
cp carbon.conf{.example,} && cp storage-schemas.conf{.example,}
echo "$(cat <<EOF
[stats]
priority = 110
pattern = .*
retentions = 10:2160,60:10080,600:262974
EOF
)" >> storage-schemas.conf
popd
# This one should prolly be added to an init script of some sort if this is a
# production environment.
bin/carbon-cache.py start

# If you used the supervisor scripts
sudo supervisorctl update
sudo supervisorctl status
# Make sure statsd and graphite are running

# Send a count event to statsd
echo -n "iam.the.walrus:1|g" | nc -w 1 -u 127.0.0.1 8125

# Time for test, go to the URL you configured nginx to serve graphite-web at

requirements.txt

Django==1.5.1
Twisted==13.0.0
argparse==1.2.1
distribute==0.6.24
django-tagging==0.3.1
txAMQP==0.6.2
uWSGI==1.9.13
whisper==0.9.10
wsgiref==0.1.2
zope.interface==4.0.5

supervisor-graphite.conf

[program:graphite]
command=/opt/graphite/env/bin/uwsgi --ini graphite-uwsgi.ini
directory=/opt/graphite
user=graphite
environment=PATH="/opt/graphite/env/bin"

supervisor-statsd.conf

[program:statsd]
command=statsd statsd-config.js
directory=/opt/graphite
user=graphite