crccheck/graphite repository overview

⁠Graphite

Graphite is a popular open source graphing library for numeric time series. Most people use it for server monitoring. This is based off smartprocedure⁠'s fix for evarga⁠'s graphite Docker image.

Differences smartprocedure⁠'s Docker image:

• Better support for external volumes for persistence

• More logs are exposed as volumes

This image is only for local development only. Although you can provide a lot of your own configuration, many other configuration options, notably the Django SECRET_KEY, are unchanged.

⁠Auth

Default login info is root/root and can be changed in the Django admin.

⁠Example Graphite Lifecycle

Based on the names and examples establied in the makefile:

• The name of the container is graphite
• External volumes are stored in in $HOME/volumes/graphite

⁠Get the default configuration and database

You'll need the conf and storage directory from the image. You can edit these configuration files and reuse them between containers.

docker run --rm --name tmp-graphite crccheck/graphite \
  tar -c --directory /opt/graphite conf storage | \
  tar -xv --directory $HOME/volumes/graphite

⁠Make a container

The only thing special is all the volumes. Because the image has so many ports, I don't bind them to localhost and just connect directly to the container.

mkdir -p $HOME/volumes/log/apache2
mkdir -p $HOME/volumes/log/supervisor
docker run -d --name graphite \
  -v $HOME/volumes/conf:/opt/graphite/conf \
  -v $HOME/volumes/log/apache2:/var/log/apache2 \
  -v $HOME/volumes/log/supervisor:/var/log/supervisor \
  -v $HOME/volumes/storage:/opt/graphite/storage \
  crccheck/graphite

⁠Connect

Get the IP of your Graphite container:

docker inspect --format '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' graphite

And connect to it with your web browser.