Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Installing Graphite for Dashboards of System Metrics

I’m doing this on a CentOS minimal install, and all the Graphite “stuff” is going in the default locations. I hear you “don’t need as much space as you think”, but that you do want to use fast disks (read “SSDs”).


Graphite install steps:


http://ift.tt/1Ermfok


2 Keys:

1. Install EPEL

2. install pip via yum (not get-pip.py)


1. yum update -y

– yeah, this can take a while, but it’s worth it


2. yum install wget


3. Install EPEL (this is key; otherwise all the following steps will mysteriously fail):

wget http://ift.tt/1htTSIk

sudo rpm -Uvh epel-release-6*.rpm


4. yum install python-devel


5. yum install python-pip


6. pip install http://ift.tt/15ToC42


7. pip install whisper


8. pip install carbon


9. pip install graphite-web


From here follow this step-by-step:


http://ift.tt/1Ermfom


EPEL install:


http://ift.tt/1sfqNHu


I had some problems with installing carbon. some “gcc” comand failed in the very last step, throwing angry red text (like this: http://ift.tt/1ErmeRg). Anything that takes that much work is worth abandoning. Then I saw yum has it (in EPEL). Well, I couldn’t figure out how to uninstall pip. heh heh:


pip uninstall pip





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