Creating a template

edit /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/render/graphTemplates.conf

There should be some examples in there.

Here's the code that loads the template, so if you don't see the option
you're trying to set in this block, it won't get set...

 335 def loadTemplate(self,template):
 336 conf = SafeConfigParser()
 337 if conf.read(settings.GRAPHTEMPLATES_CONF):
 338 defaults = dict( conf.items('default') )
 339 if template in conf.sections():
 340 opts = dict( conf.items(template) )
 341 else:
 342 opts = defaults
 343 else:
 344 opts = defaults = defaultGraphOptions
 345
 346 self.defaultBackground = opts.get('background',
defaults['background'])
 347 self.defaultForeground = opts.get('foreground',
defaults['foreground'])
 348 self.defaultMajorGridLineColor = opts.get('majorline',
defaults['majorline'])
 349 self.defaultMinorGridLineColor = opts.get('minorline',
defaults['minorline'])
 350 self.defaultColorList = [c.strip() for c in opts.get('linecolors',
defaults['linecolors']).split(',')]
 351 fontName = opts.get('fontname', defaults['fontname'])
 352 fontSize = float( opts.get('fontsize', defaults['fontsize']) )
 353 fontBold = opts.get('fontbold', defaults['fontbold']).lower() ==
'true'
 354 fontItalic = opts.get('fontitalic', defaults['fontitalic']).lower()
== 'true'
 355 self.defaultFontParams = {
 356 'name' : self.params.get('fontName',fontName),
 357 'size' : int( self.params.get('fontSize',fontSize) ),
 358 'bold' : self.params.get('fontBold',fontBold),
 359 'italic' : self.params.get('fontItalic',fontItalic),
 360 }

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Micah Whitacre <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #166950 on Graphite:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/166950
>
> In the CLI documentation[1], it mentions applying templates to graphs.
> However I have yet to find documentation on how to actually create a
> template. Can someone point to documentation on how to do it or give
> instructions on doing so?
>
> [1] - http://graphite.wikidot.com/cli-reference
>
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There is no such file in the recent version of grpahite

0.9.9 includes a graphTemplates.conf.example in the webapp conf directory (default /opt/graphite/conf). You can also see it here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~graphite-dev/graphite/main/view/589/conf/graphTemplates.conf.example

This is placed in the webapp conf directory and named 'graphTemplates.conf'.