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["Matthew O'Keefe" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
<question136096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>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 <question136096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:
> question136096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Reply-To: "question136096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:
> question136096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <
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> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:30:10 -0800
> To: "graphite-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:
> graphite-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <graphite-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> 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
>
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