First and foremost we need hardware on which to run the Graphite stack. For simplicity, I will be using Amazon Web Services EC2 hosts. However, feel free to use any type of computer that you might have laying around in your office or at home.
Read MoreThere exists a paradox: Graphite is a real-time metric graphing tool yet it provides no metrics about itself! A few minor code additions to the graphite-api project, an ELK stack, and you'll have all the information that you need.
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