It took me a while to figure out how to setup elasticsearch for grafana annotations, and I wanted a small page to allow me to add annotations

Mostly I figure we’ll add a line to deploy scripts to track versions - but I’d like to be able to manually annotate outages

this code as a gist

To convert data from munin/rrd to graphite/whisper you need to use the rrdwhisper tool which in centos is part of the python-whisper package.

If you want to change the data retention/resolution properties in graphite you will also need to resize the files as well.

Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system.

It took me a while to realise but the data input to graphite is incredibly simple

I’ve been playing with some new toys.

What motivated me was a desire to be better able to interpret load test data and performance metrics.

I love graphs, for me the visualisation they provide allows me to recognise patterns and figure out cause/effects massively faster than any other way.