Even better than SSDs behind a RAID card would be something like a Fusion-io PCIe card. Expensive, but very fast. Might save $$ in terms of reduced #servers.
-Matt On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:06 PM, kraig <[email protected]>wrote: > Question #136096 on Graphite changed: > https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/136096 > > Status: Open => Answered > > kraig proposed the following answer: > I've written a plugin based poller that we use at to collect JMX data, > performance from URLs, regex values of of URLs, and probably some other > things I am forgetting. It builds its configurations by building a > host:port list of targets from our VIPs and a manually list of hosts > that are not VIP targets. From there the ports are mapped back to a > service definition yaml which is used to track port allocations. In > there the different plugins are configured for each service. > > I'll see if I can open source that although I imagine the VIP > configuration parsing will be useless to most people, and potentially > the service configuration file structure. > > In the mean time, I committed a simple collector I wrote which you can > run to collect system metrics. Some of it is a little kludgy, you will > find it in the contrib directory. > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~graphite- > dev/graphite/main/annotate/head:/contrib/demo-collector.py > > > -- > Kraig Amador > > From: Pete Emerson <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> > Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>" < > [email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:30:10 -0800 > To: "[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [Graphite-dev] [Question #136096]: Collecting system metrics > > Question #136096 on Graphite changed: > https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/136096 > > Pete Emerson posted a new comment: > As far as a collection agent is concerned, I'd love to contribute back > to Graphite in this way. My python is very raw, however (I'm probably > writing very perlish python). I'd also need to get it approved from the > powers-that-be. > > It seems that something as simple as: > > > for file in glob.glob('path/to/plugins/*'): > exit_code, result = commands.getstatusoutput(file) > if exit_code != 0: > print "Failed to get info from " + file > continue > # SEND DATA TO GRAPHITE > > would be a minimum viable product. Add a configuration file via > ConfigParser for settings (like debug mode, graphite server / port, et > cetera) and it would be in good shape. Add daemon support for those who > don't want it running in cron and it'd be even better. > > Pete > > -- > You received this question notification because you are a member of > graphite-dev, which is an answer contact for Graphite. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev > Post to : [email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- > You received this question notification because you are a member of > graphite-dev, which is an answer contact for Graphite. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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