README.md

Seattle DevOps Graphite and StatsD Demo

This repo is meant to accompany a demo of how to use Vagrant and Chef to build an Linux server running Graphite and StatsD.

The demo was given at the Seattle DevOps meetup on July 31st, 2012 at OpsCode headquarters in downtown Seattle.

Instructions

Install Pre-Requisites

1. Install Oracle Virtual Box
2. Install Vagrant

Clone This Repo

$ git clone https://github.com/automatedlabs/graphite-demo.git

Start the VM and Install Graphite and StatsD

$ cd graphite-demo
$ vagrant up

See Graphite in action!

Navigate to http://localhost:18080 and you should see the Graphite front-end

How do I push data to StatsD/Graphite?

TODO

Further Reading

1. Etsy blog post on StatsD