Monitoring with Graphite Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale

Graphite has become one of the most powerful monitoring tools available today, due to its ease of use, rapid graph prototyping abilities, and a friendly rendering API. With this practical guide, system administrators and engineers will learn how to use this open source tool to track operational data you need to monitor your systems, as well as application-level metrics for profiling your services.

Author Jason Dixon, member of the Graphite project, provides a thorough introduction of Graphite from the basics to the skills and tools you need for troubleshooting and scaling out its software components. If you want to learn more about monitoring systems, services, or applications, this is the book you need.

Jason Dixon is a leading thinker on metrics, monitoring, andinfrastructure. He is the creator of the worldwide Monitorama conferenceseries and a member of the Graphite project. He works as the Director ofProduct Solutions at Librato, specializing in data and service integrations.