Additional Resources

Getting your Grinder data into Graphite is just one part of the bigger picture. Ideally, you want all your stuff – application data, OS-level performance metrics, Grinder data, deployment timestamps – to feed into a common location where it can all be integrated. These tools can help.

Exposing Application Data

Coda Hale Metrics

This library makes it easy for Java-based servers to expose performance data to JMX:

http://metrics.codahale.com/

It can optionally forward it to Graphite as well.

Statsd

A network daemon that listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

https://github.com/etsy/statsd/ http://codeascraft.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/

Jmxtrans

Java/JMX counters and application-level metrics can be fed to Graphite using the JMXTrans tool:

https://github.com/jmxtrans/jmxtrans

Exposing OS-level data

quickstatd

OS-level metrics (CPU, mem, etc.) can be fed to Graphite via quickstatd or collectd (with graphite plugin)

https://bitbucket.org/travis_bear/quickstatd

collectd

Another good tool for collecting OS-level performance data and forwardng it to Graphite:

http://collectd.org/

Keeping an eye on your data

If you have a bazillion metrics in your Graphite, it can be hard to keep an eye on all of them, or notice when something interesting happens. The Kale tools can help.

Kale has two parts: Skyline, and Oculus.