<story><title>A Practical guide to StatsD/Graphite monitoring</title><url>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2013/06/26/practical-guide-to-graphite-monitoring/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>another</author><text>In addition to this helpful guide, note that statsd &amp;#x2F; graphite both spring some unfortunate surprises on new users, e.g., graphite changing your data across retention rates and time scales [0], graphite changing your data at different plot widths (?!) [1], statsd believing that only count and time data deserve to be aggregated [2], etc.&lt;p&gt;I have no alternative to suggest, however. Perhaps Cube [3], but unclear if it has any user community.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10820119/graphite-is-not-graphing-anything-for-ranges-bigger-than-7-hours&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;10820119&amp;#x2F;graphite-is-not-...&lt;/a&gt;
[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/1.0/functions.html#graphite.render.functions.cumulative&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;graphite.readthedocs.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;1.0&amp;#x2F;functions.html#graphi...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/etsy/statsd/issues/98&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;etsy&amp;#x2F;statsd&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;98&lt;/a&gt;
[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/square/cube&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;square&amp;#x2F;cube&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A Practical guide to StatsD/Graphite monitoring</title><url>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2013/06/26/practical-guide-to-graphite-monitoring/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pearkes</author><text>I use a statsd compatible alternative called statsite.[1]&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s written in pure c and behaves like you would expect statsd to, with some additional improvements. I&amp;#x27;m definitely more comfortable deploying it as opposed to installing and managing a node.js application.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/armon/statsite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;armon&amp;#x2F;statsite&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>