Inspired by Etsy's seminal blogpost Measure anything, measure everything, w It turned out to be quite a bit more involved than
sudo yum -y install graphite statsd # yeah I wish...
This fabric script is the result of my effort to trace my steps while trying to get everything work together and up and running (I took some clues from Grig Gheorghiu).
I use the script to automatically install statsd and Graphite (and its dependencies) from trunk on any standard Amazon EC2 linux instance.
On an m1.large EC2 instance, this script is finished within 8minutes.
Works on my machines, YMMV!
Suitable Amazon EC2 linux instance (I often use Basic 64-bit Amazon Linux AMI 2011.02.1 Beta
on an m1.large machine)
The instance need to be configured with a security group that has the necessary UDP / TCP ports opened.
On your local machine, you need mercurial, python2 >= 2.6 and python-fabric
pip install fabric
Once fabric is installed, and the EC2 instance is running, test that you are able to ssh into your EC2 instance, using something like
ssh -i ~/.ssh/myec2key.pem [email protected]
Then just invoke
curl -O https://bitbucket.org/captnswing/graphite_fabfile/raw/default/fabfile.py
fab -i <path to EC2 .pem> -H <EC2 hostname> setup
On the EC2 host, supervisord takes care of running apache httpd, graphite carbon and node.js statsd services.
You can check the status of these services by invoking
fab -i <path to EC2 .pem> -H <EC2 hostname> graphite:status
Also
fab -i <path to EC2 .pem> -H <EC2 hostname> graphite:stop
fab -i <path to EC2 .pem> -H <EC2 hostname> graphite:start
does what you think it does.
Check out the graphite / statsd clients here