A short introduction to Graphite and other components that feed data into it, from the point of view of a business user.

1. A (mostly) non-technical introduction
Graphite for
business users

2. “What is measured improves”
Peter Drucker

3. the big picture
statsd
graphite newrelic
others

alerting
dashboards

4. A library that allows us to measure
what happens in our code
statsd

5. Add numbers to a particular metric
counters

6. counters
# of emails sent
# of “yes” clicks
examples

7. Measure time spent between two
moments
timers

8. timers
recommendation algorithm response time
interest auto-complete response time
examples

9. The instantaneous value of something.
gauges
Definition from http://codahale.com/codeconf-2011-04-09-metrics-metrics-everywhere.pdf

10. gauges
online users
total # of circulating tokens
examples

11. keep in mind that...
metrics can be aggregated
counters.email.opens.daily_match.template_103.count
counters.email.opens.daily_match.*.count
counters.email.opens.*.*.count

12. keep in mind that...
metrics can be calculated (more on
this later...)

13. A real-time charting application for
time-series data
Graphite

14. Graphite
whisper
carbon
webapp

15. demo time