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Re: querying multiple backends at once, as if they were a single instance

 

I'll do a mock-up in Vagrant locally - but until then: the backends listed in CLUSTER_SERVERS, how do they appear on the frontend? Will their metrics be grafted under different roots in the data tree on the frontend? In other words, will this path...

backend1.www.tomcat5.os.cpu.total.user

...return CPU usage on tomcat5 in backend1?

And will this path...

backend2.www.tomcat5.os.cpu.total.user

...return CPU usage on tomcat5 in backend2?



On 2015-02-25 18:49, Jason Dixon wrote:
Hi Florin,

That's exactly what Graphite is designed to do. You can run a single
Graphite "frontend" that reads from all of the "backend" Graphite
instances. You'll want to set the CLUSTER_SERVERS in local_settings.py
on the frontend server.

There's some good information online:
http://bitprophet.org/blog/2013/03/07/graphite/
https://grey-boundary.io/the-architecture-of-clustering-graphite/

I'm also going to be covering Graphite scalability at depth in Chapter
10 of my book, but that specific content is still a ways out.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920035794.do

Jason

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 06:30:12PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
There's an environment with several VPCs in the cloud where I may
have to provide each VPC with its own local Graphite server, and
have all instances within a VPC send metrics only to that server.
That's fine. All VPCs will have the exact same data structure within
Graphite (same paths).

But is there a way to... collate? federate?... have all these
servers be queried at once from outside, as if they were a single
Graphite instance? Obviously, each individual server would have to
live under a separate root on the device that performs the
collation.

Could graphite-web be configured like that, pointing at separate
graphite backends, and placing each backend under its own root?

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