Graphite api

Graphite-api

To install graphite-api follow steps described on this: site

after graphite-api installation change configuration file /etc/graphite-api.yaml to:

search_index: /var/lib/graphite/index            
finders:                                         
  - graphite_api.finders.whisper.WhisperFinder   
functions:                                       
  - graphite_api.functions.SeriesFunctions       
  - graphite_api.functions.PieFunctions          
whisper:                                         
  directories:                                   
    - /var/lib/graphite/whisper                  
time_zone: Europe/Warsaw

restart httpd:

systemctl restart httpd

now it is possible to use http-api to query metrics or render graphs in many possible formats. To render example metric you can use one of the following links:

• http://127.0.0.1:8013/render?target=calamari.cthulhu.ru*&height=800&width=600&from=-20minutes
• http://127.0.0.1:8013/render?target=calamari.cthulhu.ru*&from=-30minutes&format=json
• http://127.0.0.1:8013/render?target=servers.localhost_localdomain.cpu.*.*&from=-2hours&format=svg&cacheTimeout=3600
• http://127.0.0.1:8013/render?target=servers.localhost_localdomain.cpu.*.*&from=-1hours&format=csv
• http://127.0.0.1:8013/render?target=servers.localhost_localdomain.cpu.cpu0.system&from=-30minutes&format=json