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Overview

Monitoring cookbook repository needs to be located @ /root/monitoring for chef-solo to run it - see solo.rb file

Have configured based on etsy configuration. This is important to ensure no lost metrics and retention correctly done -https://github.com/etsy/statsd/blob/master/docs/graphite.md

##Statsd Statsd cookbook location on opscode is out of date and does not work

  • Exception when installing debian package

I have used a simpler cookbook from here

-https://github.com/josephholsten/statsd-cookbook

##Graphite Have used the opscode community cookbook

  • Version 0.4.3

-http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/graphite

Updates to cookbook

##Statsd

###Attributes

  • statsd.rb

New attributes added

*default[:statsd][:repo] = "https://github.com/etsy/statsd.git"

*default[:statsd][:sha] = "2ccde8266bbe941ac5f79efe39103b99e1196d92"

*default[:statsd][:dir] = "/usr/share/statsd"

###Recipes

  • default.rb
    • using git resources to clone repository instead of execute resource

##Graphite ###Attributes

  • default.rb

    • default['graphite']['timezone']

  • graphite.rb

    • default['graphite']['timezone']

  • carbon_aggregator.rb

    • default['graphite']['storage_aggregation']

  • carbon_cache.rb

    • default['graphite']['storage_schemas']

Requirements

Need chef client

  • Latest version of chef can be installed using install-chef.sh file
  • This will install chef via omnibus, which has its own embedded version of Ruby

ITS Notes

Assumes curl installed - required to install chef client

Statsd

  • Port 8125 UDP
  • Port 8126 for monitoring
  • nodejs

Graphite

  • Apache, python
  • Web app django, sqllite db

Other

  • Git
  • Apt
  • http required to require source

Installation

  • Copy repository to machine
  • Run install-chef.sh
  • Run chef-solo -c solo.rb -j web.json