This playbook let you easily setup Grafana, Graphite and StatsD. You can use it to provison a dedicated server or even a virtual machine using the VagrantFile and Virtualbox

It uses Ansible as a provisionner, make sure to install Ansible before (version >= 1.6).

What gets installed with this playbook:

• NginX webserver/reverse proxy
• Python, Pip & VirtualEnv
• NodeJS
• StatsD
• Grahite with its components:
  • Carbon
  • Whisper
  • The Graphite webapp
• And finally Grafana

After that you will be able to access:

• StatsD: http:https://www.monitoring.dev:8125 (Using UDP)
• Graphite: http:https://www.monitoring.dev:81 or http:https://www.monitoring.dev/graphite
• Grafana: http:https://www.monitoring.dev

If you want to install Grafana/Graphite on a VM using Vagrant, you need to install Vagrant and VirtualBox first.

Change private_ip in Vagrantfile and vagrant_hosts files.

Then hit:

$ vagrant up

Before running Ansible you need to add the IP address of your target server into the ansible_hosts file.

$ vi ansible_hosts

You also need to change the remote_user variable in playbook.yml to the actual user you will use to login into your target server:

$ ansible-playbook -v -i ansible_hosts playbook.yml -e target=X.X.X.X

Tip: If you can't include ssh keys, you can force ansible to request the server password including the option "--ask-pass"

This ansible role is based on Guillaume Montard repository.