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copied!<p>I have statsd+graphite running in my Windows environment using the C# client <a href="https://github.com/neutmute/NStatsD.Client">NStatsD</a>.</p> <p>Here are my notes for getting the Linux VM setup:</p> <p><em>Note: I know enough Linux to be dangerous but am otherwise a noob and could be doing something unwittingly horrible.</em></p> <ol> <li>Install Ubuntu Server 12.04. I used VirtualBox for dev and then later EC2 for prod.</li> <li><p>Download <a href="https://github.com/gingerlime/graphite-fabric">graphite-fabric</a> to your home folder. This is a script that will download, compile and install graphite and statsd. It expects a clean box and uses nginx for the web server.</p> <p><code>sudo apt-get install git</code> </p> <p><code>git clone git://github.com/gingerlime/graphite-fabric.git</code></p> <p><code>cd graphite-fabric/</code></p></li> <li><p>Install prereq's for fabric</p> <p><code>sudo apt-get install python-setuptools</code></p></li> <li><p>The next steps are a download, compile and install which can take some time. It is worthwhile setting a keep alive on any putty ssh session before continuing.</p></li> <li><p>Now install as per gingerlime's instructions in the README.md - including the requirements section. </p></li> <li>Install statsd as per gingerlime's instructions.</li> <li>Reboot</li> <li>Execute <code>netstat -nulp</code> and observe 8125 is in use to confirm statsd is listening.</li> <li>Check carbon is running <code>tail /opt/graphite/storage/log/carbon-cache/carbon-cache-a/listener.log</code>. If it isn't, try <code>sudo /etc/init.d/carbon start</code></li> </ol> <p>Now you have your server running, try throwing some counters at it with the <a href="https://github.com/neutmute/NStatsD.Client">NStatsD</a> client.</p> <p><strong>Timezone fix</strong>: </p> <p>This will fix graphite to graph times in your local zone</p> <ol> <li><code>cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite</code></li> <li><code>sudo cp local_settings.py.example local_settings.py</code></li> <li><code>sudo chown www-data:www-data local_settings.py</code> (check with <code>ls -l</code> that permissions look right)</li> <li><code>sudo pico local_settings.py</code> Set TIME_ZONE to something like <code>Australia/Sydney</code>. Discover what timezones you can use in <code>/usr/share/zoneinfo/</code></li> <li>Save and restart the box (not sure how to make it pick up the change without restart)</li> </ol> <p><strong>EC2 Notes</strong></p> <p>root is disabled on EC2. Fabric prompts for a root password which you don't have. Use the <code>-i keyfile</code> argument with fab to give it your ssh keyfile instead.</p> <p><strong>VirtualBox Notes</strong></p> <p><a href="http://vboxvmservice.sourceforge.net/">VBoxVMService</a> was handy to automatically run the VM as a service in my Windows dev environment.</p>

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