[chef] Re: Graphing Chef metrics in graphite

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Dan Adams wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm using Chef Server across a number of environments. I'm also using 
> Graphite (http://graphite.wikidot.com/) to graph a number of metrics for 
> various items from infrastructure up to app and service level.
> 
> Since I'm sure I'm not the only one using both Chef and Graphite, I wanted 
> to get a feel for what (and how) others were graphing Chef metrics into 
> Graphite.
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing what metrics you'd found most useful in 
> building up Chef dashboards in Graphite, and how you went about gathering 
> the metrics (eg API, log scraping etc)

collectd_python + PyChef :-) Thats actually one of the first reasons I wrote 
PyChef.

--Noah

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