From 2f849be9d8fefaea6c9dc858a68cc9d4ffe770b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Torkel=20=C3=96degaard?= Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 09:51:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs(): minor tweaks to new tutorial --- docs/mkdocs.yml | 4 ++-- docs/sources/tutorials/stack_guide_graphite.md | 12 +++++------- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/mkdocs.yml b/docs/mkdocs.yml index fa45bb456da..636c774db33 100644 --- a/docs/mkdocs.yml +++ b/docs/mkdocs.yml @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ pages: - ['datasources/opentsdb.md', 'Data Sources', 'OpenTSDB'] - ['datasources/kairosdb.md', 'Data Sources', 'KairosDB'] -# - ['tutorials/index.md', 'Tutorials', 'Tutorials'] -# - ['tutorials/stack_guide_graphite.md', 'Tutorials', 'Stack setup: Grafana + Graphite + StatsD'] +- ['tutorials/index.md', 'Tutorials', 'Tutorials'] +- ['tutorials/stack_guide_graphite.md', 'Tutorials', 'Stack setup: Grafana + Graphite + StatsD'] - ['project/building_from_source.md', 'Project', 'Building from Source'] - ['project/cla.md', 'Project', 'Contributor License Agreement'] diff --git a/docs/sources/tutorials/stack_guide_graphite.md b/docs/sources/tutorials/stack_guide_graphite.md index a51fb77767e..a9025cf9a71 100644 --- a/docs/sources/tutorials/stack_guide_graphite.md +++ b/docs/sources/tutorials/stack_guide_graphite.md @@ -24,14 +24,13 @@ that is not really the case, or, at least, that it is a lot better than you expe ## Installation - Ubuntu -This guides will require you to install 4 components. +To begin with we are going to install the 3 main components that define our metric stack. Later in the guide we will +install StatsD, but that is optional. - Carbon is the graphite ingestion deamon responsible for receiving metrics and storing them. - Graphite-api is light weight version of graphite-web with only the HTTP api and is responsible for executing metric queries. -- StatsD is a metrics aggregation daemon that makes it easy for apps on -many machines to send measurements like timings and counters and have them aggregated or percentiles calculated. - Grafana as the frontend to visualize metrics and the tool to help you build metric queries that will make the most out of your collected metrics. @@ -258,8 +257,7 @@ frameworks and numerous integrations. There are hundreds of tools and instrumentation frameworks that can send metrics using this protocol. -## Installing StatsD +### Installing StatsD +StatsD is a metrics aggregation daemon that makes it easy for apps on many machines to send measurements like timings and counters and have them aggregated or percentiles calculated. -StatsD is To make it easier for applications to send metrics and timings - -### Inserting metrics +### Sending metrics to StatsD