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Removing items from the tree within Graphite WebUI

Asked by bongo

Hi,

We have just started using Graphite. We are able to push data to Graphite and setup name spaces etc, however, we want to be able to remove/move these around as we please. An example of this is..

1) test machines/test data we wish to remove from the tree
2) organisational ability of folders/tree/subtree/branches/leaves of data/servers/services we are putting in there.. an example of this is a machine which comes online for a brief period of time, never to come back online again, and we wish to move this namespace and data to another subtree (like OFFLINE or ARCHIVE)

Many thanks.

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Dave Rawks (drawks) said : 		#1

Data can easily be manipulated by moving, deleting, renaming, symlinking the whisper files on disk.

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bongo (n-launchpad-sonicb-com) said : 		#2

Thanks for this. Where are the whisper files kept exactly?

Many thanks.

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Best Nicholas Leskiw (nleskiw) said : 		#3

/opt/graphite/storage/whisper

-Nick

On May 12, 2011, at 4:50 AM, bongo <email address hidden> wrote:

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> Thanks for this. Where are the whisper files kept exactly?
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> Many thanks.
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bongo (n-launchpad-sonicb-com) said : 		#4

Thanks Nicholas Leskiw, that solved my question.

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DiegoV (diego-varese) said : 		#5

This is pretty tedious if using a federated storage solution. Are there plans to expose deleting stats via the Django admin interface or sth similar?

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Nicholas Leskiw (nleskiw) said : 		#6

There are no plans to do this. If you'd like to write a patch we'll be happy to accept it.

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Florin Andrei (florin-andrei) said : 		#7

It should be noted that graphite does not have to be restarted after deleting old metrics. Just delete the files and forget it.

I thought I should mention this because it was a stumbling block for me at some point. The docs are not clear whether a restart is needed or not, and I assumed it was needed. Turned out I was wrong.