Scripted Dashboards for Graphite

Question

I am trying to generate dashboards for some metrics using graphite. Ideally, if i would like to display metrics such as CPU usage, Memory, and log statistics stored in graphite whisper DB. Is there any tool (and documentation) such as kibana3 which supports scripted dash-boards. Thanks

Answer 1

Try Grafana (http://grafana.org) it is based on Kibana.

Answer 2

Generated graphs can be configured and saved in the following ways-

1. Dashboard

The dashboard can be accessed at- http://graphite-url/dashboard. Once you display the graph(s), you can configure the size, lineMode, etc. Once done, save the dashboard by going to dashboard -> save as.

2. Composer 

While installing graphite webapp, the django user auth details can be used to log into the webapp. Once logged in, every graph will have a save icon on the top-left of the composer window. Saved graphs will be saved under user-graphs, under the metric-tree.

3. Render endpoint

If by 'scripting' you meant content, than rendering, use the render URL endpoint. Generate the required url by script and do something like- http://graphite-host/composer/&target=a.b.c&target=d.*.e.f

Answer 3

Not sure if this is what you mean but for example using the graph-explorer graphite dashboard you can go to "/dashboard/server-basics/insert_hostname_here" and it will server graphs (cpu, memory, diskspace) for the given hostname. you can change the dashboards or add more to do the same things for other metrics.

edit: this does assume that the plugins that it uses were able to parse your metrics.