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| This is a short guide to installing and configuring a Graphite installation dedicated to NAV on a Debian Wheezy-based server. | This is a short guide to installing and configuring a Graphite installation dedicated to NAV on a Debian Wheezy-based server. | ||
| + | <note tip> | ||
| + | The installation procedure is largely the same on Debian Jessie, but the carbon-cache that comes with Jessie's ''graphite-carbon'' package (0.9.12) has horrible performance characteristics, for some reason. We've opted to keep using the old version from Wheezy (0.9.10) to keep the same performance. | ||
| + | </note> | ||
| ===== Getting Graphite ===== | ===== Getting Graphite ===== | ||
| A full Graphite setup consists of the Carbon backend server, which receives metrics over TCP or UDP, and a Graphite web frontend, which enables browsing and retrievial/rendering of the stored metrics. NAV will collect metrics and send to the former, while utilizing the latter to retrieve metrics and render graphs. | A full Graphite setup consists of the Carbon backend server, which receives metrics over TCP or UDP, and a Graphite web frontend, which enables browsing and retrievial/rendering of the stored metrics. NAV will collect metrics and send to the former, while utilizing the latter to retrieve metrics and render graphs. | ||
| - | The Debian package ''graphite-carbon'' is present in the official Debian Wheezy distribution, but because of licensing issues, the ''graphite-web'' package did not make it into Wheezy in time. It is only available for the testing and unstable Debian distributions. If you have followed the instructions from [[nav_on_debian]], you will find a version of the ''graphite-web'' package that has been backported to Wheezy by us: | + | The Debian package ''graphite-carbon'' is present in the Debian Wheezy ''main'' archive, while the ''graphite-web'' package is in the ''wheezy-backports'' archive. |
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| - | $ apt-cache policy graphite-web | + | |
| - | graphite-web: | + | |
| - | Installed: (none) | + | |
| - | Candidate: 0.9.12-0uninett1~bpo70+1 | + | |
| - | Version table: | + | |
| - | 0.9.12-0uninett1~bpo70+1 0 | + | |
| - | 500 https://nav.uninett.no/debian/ wheezy/nav amd64 Packages | + | |
| Assuming you will be running Graphite on the same Debian server as you are running NAV, all you need to do to install Graphite is: | Assuming you will be running Graphite on the same Debian server as you are running NAV, all you need to do to install Graphite is: | ||
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| ===== Configuring Carbon ===== | ===== Configuring Carbon ===== | ||
| - | Carbon, the metric-receiving backend of Graphite, must be configured before it can be used with NAV. We will only be covering the simple case of using the //carbon-cache// daemon. Most of this information is lifted from the [[https://nav.uninett.no/doc/4.0/intro/install.html#configuring-graphite|NAV installation documentation]]. | + | Carbon, the metric-receiving backend of Graphite, must be configured before it can be used with NAV. We will only be covering the simple case of using the //carbon-cache// daemon. Most of this information is lifted from the [[https://nav.uninett.no/doc/latest/intro/install.html#configuring-graphite|NAV installation documentation]]. |
| Edit ''/etc/carbon/carbon.conf'' to ensure these options are set in the ''[cache]'' section: | Edit ''/etc/carbon/carbon.conf'' to ensure these options are set in the ''[cache]'' section: | ||
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| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
| - | createuser --login graphite | + | createuser --pwprompt --no-createrole --no-superuser --no-createdb --login graphite |
| createdb --owner=graphite graphite | createdb --owner=graphite graphite | ||
| </code> | </code> | ||
graphite_on_debian.txt · Last modified: 2019/01/28 11:02 by morten
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