Graphite

Is there someone in the Bay Area that could speak about Graphite?

Asked by Chris Westin on 2011-05-31

Hi, I organize the talks for the Bay Area Large-Scale Production Engineering Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Large-Scale-Production-Engineering/ . Each month, we have an evening of talks about subjects of interest to the DevOps, Service Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering communities. You can take a look at the site and check the "Past" tab to see examples of the kinds of events we do. We pick a topic, and then look for speakers who can talk about that.

For our next event, on Thursday June 16, our members would like to hear about monitoring solutions. We titled the event "Not Nagios," because at our last monitoring event, almost all the talks were about Nagios. I've had many requests to hear about other things; I just got a couple of requests to hear about Graphite.

If there are any team members or users in the Bay Area, we'd love to hear one of you come and tell us about Graphite. We are interested in hearing about various monitoring alternatives: what do they look like, what do they do for you, are they hard to install, and why do you like them over the alternatives? See the event listing for more details: http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Large-Scale-Production-Engineering/events/15481164/ .

If someone would be willing to speak, please contact me at c w e s t i n @ y a h o o (dot) c o m .

Thanks!
Chris Westin

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Solved by:: Dave Mangot

Solved:: 2011-06-03

Last query:: 2011-06-03

Last reply:: 2011-06-02

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Jason Dixon (jason-dixongroup) said on 2011-05-31:

If nobody local (or more qualified) is able to speak, I could present my "Trending with Purpose" talk (http://obfuscurity.com/2011/03/Trending-with-Purpose) remotely[1]. Although it touches on Nagios, the focus of the talk is on Graphite. In particular, using metrics that you've already collected with Nagios performance data and bringing them to life with Graphite, StatsD and Logster. The afore-linked slides were updated for my presentation at PICC 2011, and would probably be updated again to suit the audience (and recent new developments).

[1] I've used BigBlueButton (http://www.bigbluebutton.org/ [2]) on two occasions to give this talk. It's very well suited for this sort of arrangement (remote speaker to a group audience). If you're not comfortable with this arrangement, I understand, but it's worked well for me in the past.

[2] Their site appears to be down at the moment. But the demo (http://demo.bigbluebutton.org/) is still active, and I have a snapshot of a running BBB instance that can be launched at Rackspace Cloud with 5 minutes' notice.

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Jon Stevens (latchkey-gmail) said on 2011-05-31:

I'm going to be out of town on June 16th, but I'd love to come give a talk about jmxtrans, which is my "super easy to setup / any ops monkey can do it" Java JMX -> Graphite connector.

When I went looking to tie JMX and Graphite together, I found several commercial products and no real good open source solutions. The problem was mostly with the configuration aspect of the tools available, it was very difficult. So, I created something that by default uses small json blocks to configure things.

http://jmxtrans.googlecode.com/

jon

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Dave Mangot (dmangot) said on 2011-06-02:

I can be there and do the talk. I would love contributions from the Graphite community though. (i.e. send me your cool slides!)

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Jason Dixon (jason-dixongroup) said on 2011-06-02:

@Dave, see my aforementioned slides at http://obfuscurity.com/2011/03/Trending-with-Purpose.

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Dave Mangot (dmangot) said on 2011-06-02:

On 6/2/11 10:11 AM, Jason Dixon wrote:
> Question #159752 on Graphite changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/159752
>
> Jason Dixon posted a new comment:
> @Dave, see my aforementioned slides at http://obfuscurity.com/2011/03
> /Trending-with-Purpose.
>

Thanks! There's some really good stuff in here for me to "borrow" :)

-Dave

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Chris Westin (cwestin) said on 2011-06-03:

Jason, thanks for the offer to do a talk remotely. Since Dave is local, and has volunteered to do one, I'm going to go with that. I was a bit nervous at the thought of depending on remote presentation software.

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Chris Westin (cwestin) said on 2011-06-03:

Thanks Dave Mangot, that solved my question.

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Jason Dixon (jason-dixongroup) said on 2011-06-03:

No worries, it sounds like Dave is going to give [at least part of] my presentation. Surely he can give a better talk with it than I did. ;-)

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Kevin Blackham (thekev.) said on 2011-06-11:

Will Dave be presenting on recent features like Ceres and dashboards? That would be super great.

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Dave Mangot (dmangot) said on 2011-06-11:

#10

@Kevin, I would be happy to, just point me at the documentation. (I see Ceres on the roadmap, I will mention it).

I've already got a slide with Jon's JMXtrans so if I can fit it into a 20 minute talk, let me know and I'll do my best. I'm going to be representing the Graphite community after all.

Cheers,

-Dave

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Kevin Blackham (thekev.) said on 2011-06-11:

#11

Chris? Ceres and dashboard is in trunk and not yet documented, correct?

I haven't even updated myself to use them. Other pressing issues etc. Otherwise I'd write up something. A demo of dragging a graph onto another to merge them would produce some oohs and ahhs. :)

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Kevin Blackham (thekev.) said on 2011-06-11:

#12

Chris = chrismd, doh.

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Chris Westin (cwestin) said on 2011-06-11:

#13

Good thing: I have no idea. That's why I come here looking for someone to talk....

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chrismd (chrismd) said on 2011-06-11:

#14

Hey everyone, I'll actually be attending the talk on Thursday so I'd be happy to chat about Ceres there. Unfortunately I don't really have any sort of presentation put together.

Dave, thanks for volunteering I'm looking forward to the talk.

Kevin, yes the dashboards are on trunk but they were also in 0.9.8. There are some newer sexy features in trunk, like drag'n'drop reordering & merging, full functions/params menus, etc. Ceres is actually in the lp:graphite/1.1 branch. A few improvements to 0.9.8 + completed docs = 1.0. Once 1.0 is out all new feature work will be on the 1.1 branch, which uses Ceres (but the webapp still supports whisper, so converting your wsp files is optional).