Graphite and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance

Introduction

• Monitoring and visualizing system performance
• What you should know
• Exercise files

1. Metrics Gathering with StatsD

• StatsD overview
• Installing StatsD
• Configuring StatsD
• Types of metrics
• Adding StatsD to an application
• First look with StatsD and Grafana

2. Graphite: Metrics Aggregation

• Graphite basics and components
• Installing Graphite
• Setting up the Graphite-web database
• Carbon overview
• Configuring carbon
• Configuring Graphite-web
• Whisper files
• Verifying the system
• The Graphite UI
• Graphite scaling and performance

3. Grafana: Metrics Visualization

• Grafana basics
• Installing Grafana
• Grafana security basics
• Adding data sources
• Creating dashboards
• Additional dashboard configurations
• Deep dive: Grafana panel types
• High-availability Grafana

4. Using Graphite and Grafana Together

• The Graphite render endpoint
• Building Graphite queries
• Interpreting graphs
• Example dashboards

Conclusion

• Next steps