Graphite - Resources

We are going to have to scale graphite sooner or later... the following links include info on the topic:
http://www.aosabook.org/en/graphite.html
http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/carbon-daemons.html



Carbon Daemons:

1. carbon-cache.py
2. carbon-relay.py  - replication and sharding
3. carbon-aggregator.py - for buffering metrics to reduce I/O (data is available later though)

 Config Files:

1. carbon.conf
2. relay-rules.conf - send certain metrics to certain backends (sharding)
3. storage-schemas.conf - defines retention polices. Whisper preallocates these files.
4. storage-aggregation.conf - defines how to aggregate data to lower-precision retentions (dflt is avg)
5. aggregation-rules.conf - allow you to add several metrics together as the come in

Send data to graphite (actually carbon component) via:

1. plain text
2. pickle
3. amqp