Monitoring with Graphite

Jason Dixon is a leading thinker on metrics, monitoring, andinfrastructure. He is the creator of the worldwide Monitorama conferenceseries and a member of the Graphite project. He works as the Director ofProduct Solutions at Librato, specializing in data and serviceintegrations. He has held engineering and managing roles at leadingcompanies including Heroku, GitHub, and Dyn. He lives in Maryland withhis family.

Chapter 1What Is Graphite?
What Is Time-Series Data?
Time-Series Databases
What Is the History of Graphite?
What Makes Graphite Unique?
Case Studies: Who Uses Graphite in Production?
Why Should I Use Graphite?
Chapter 2Monitoring Conventions
Three Tenets of Monitoring
Rethinking the Poll/Pull Model
Where Does Graphite Fit into the Picture?
Composable Monitoring Systems
Conclusion
Chapter 3Graphite Components: The Moving Parts
Carbon
Whisper
Graphite-Web
Putting It All Together
A Final Thought
Chapter 4Building Your First Graphite Server
Quick Start with Synthesize
Preparing Your Web Database
Configuring Carbon
Configuring Graphite-Web
Verifying Your Graphite Installation
Chapter 5The Graphite User Interface
Finding Metrics
The Graphite Composer Window
The Embedded Chart
The Toolbar
The Graph Options Menu
The Graph Data Dialog
Sharing Your Work
Chapter 6The Render API
Working with Functions
Alternate Output Formats
Chapter 7Dashboards
Why Do I Need a Dashboard?
Graphite Dashboard
Third-Party Dashboards
Do-It-Yourself
Conclusion
Chapter 8Troubleshooting Graphite Performance
First, the Basics
The Troubleshooting Toolbelt
Configuration Settings
Logging
Failure Scenarios
Taking It to the Next Level
Chapter 9Scaling Graphite
What Makes It “Hard” to Scale Graphite?
Peter’s Graphite Story
Some Final Thoughts
Summary
Appendix Carbon and Graphite-Web Internal Statistics
Carbon
Graphite-Web