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diff --git a/docs/gw/graphite.rst b/docs/gw/graphite.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a2939802 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/gw/graphite.rst @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +.. _graphite: + +Graphite +======== + +You can export statistics to a ``Graphite`` server (time series server). + +The connection should be defined in the Glances configuration file as +following: + +.. code-block:: ini + + [graphite] + host=localhost + port=2003 + # Prefix will be added for all measurement name + # Ex: prefix=foo + # => foo.cpu + # => foo.mem + # You can also use dynamic values + #prefix=`hostname` + prefix=glances + +and run Glances with: + +.. code-block:: console + + $ glances --export graphite + +Note 1: the port defines the TCP port where the Graphite listen plain-text requests. + +Note 2: As many time-series database, only integer and float are supported in the Graphite datamodel. + +Note 3: Under the wood, Glances uses GraphiteSender Python lib (https://github.com/NicoAdrian/graphitesender). |