Installing graphite on debian/ubuntu

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Setup deps graphite
aptitude install python2.6
aptitude install python-cairo
aptitude install python-django
aptitude install python-django-tagging
aptitude install python2.6-twisted-core
aptitude install apache2
aptitude install libapache2-mod-wsgi
aptitude install memcached python-memcache


Installing graphite
wget http://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.9/+download/whisper-0.9.9.tar.gz
wget http://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.9/+download/carbon-0.9.9.tar.gz
wget http://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.9/+download/graphite-web-0.9.9.tar.gz

cd whisper-0.9.9 && python2.6 setup.py install && cd ..
cd carbon-0.9.9 && python2.6 setup.py install && cd ..

cd graphite-web-0.9.9
./checkDependencies.py

if check deps is ok:
python2.6 setup.py install

Setup sqlite db
cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite
python2.6 manage.py syncdb

useradd graphite
chown www-data:www-data /opt/graphite/storage/log/webapp/
chown www-data:www-data /opt/graphite/storage/
chown www-data:www-data /opt/graphite/storage/graphite.db
chown graphite:graphite /opt/graphite/storage/whisper/
mkdir /opt/graphite/storage/carbon-cache
chown graphite:graphite /opt/graphite/storage/carbon-cache

Configure graphite
cd /opt/graphite/conf
cp carbon.conf.example carbon.conf
edit carbon.conf; replace user with graphite

cp storage-schemas.conf.example storage-schemas.conf
edit schema
retentions = 10s:1d, 1m:14d, 1h:365d

Setup apache
cd /opt/graphite/conf
cp graphite.wsgi.example graphite.wsgi

cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite
cp local_settings.py.example local_settings.py

edit file:
MEMCACHE_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1:11211']


vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/graphite


<--- SNIPPET --->
# This needs to be in your server's config somewhere, probably
# the main httpd.conf
# NameVirtualHost *:80

# You may need to manually edit this file to fit your needs.
# This configuration assumes the default installation prefix
# of /opt/graphite/, if you installed graphite somewhere else
# you will need to change all the occurances of /opt/graphite/
# in this file to your chosen install location.

<VirtualHost *:80>
        #ServerName 127.0.0.1
        DocumentRoot "/opt/graphite/webapp"
        ErrorLog /opt/graphite/storage/log/webapp/error.log
        CustomLog /opt/graphite/storage/log/webapp/access.log common

        # I've found that an equal number of processes & threads tends
        # to show the best performance for Graphite (ymmv).
        WSGIDaemonProcess graphite processes=5 threads=5 display-name='%{GROUP}' inactivity-timeout=120
        WSGIProcessGroup graphite

        # You will need to create this file! There is a graphite.wsgi.example
        # file in this directory that you can safely use, just copy it to graphite.wgsi
        WSGIScriptAlias / /opt/graphite/conf/graphite.wsgi

        Alias /content/ /opt/graphite/webapp/content/

        <Location "/content/">
                SetHandler None
        </Location>

        # NOTE: In order for the django admin site media to work you
        # must change @DJANGO_ROOT@ to be the path to your django
        # installation, which is probably something like:
        # /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django
        #Alias /media/ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/admin/media/
        <Location "/media/">
                SetHandler None
        </Location>

        # The graphite.wsgi file has to be accessible by apache. It won't
        # be visible to clients because of the DocumentRoot though.
        <Directory /opt/graphite/conf/>
                Order deny,allow
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

<--- SNIPPET --->

a2dissite default

a2ensite graphite
/etc/init.d/apache reload

Setup carbon daemonen
touch /etc/init.d/carbon 
chmod u+x /etc/init.d/carbon

<--- snippet --->
#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: 35 90 12
# description: carbon-cache script
#


cd /opt/graphite

start() {
        ./bin/carbon-cache.py start
        echo "carbon-cache started"
}

stop() {
        ./bin/carbon-cache.py stop
        echo "carbon-cache stopped"
}

### main logic ###
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  status)
        ./bin/carbon-cache.py status
        ;;
  restart|reload|condrestart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
        exit 1
esac

exit 0

<--- snippet --->

update-rc.d carbon defaults

/etc/init.d/carbon start