statsd on ubuntu 12.04 virtualbox provisioned by vagrant

Introduction

I have been playing woth Phantomas and was really interested in being able to track the stats via statsd and Graphite. Beacause I have also been playing with vagrant I thought it would be useful to get this up and running on vagrant.

My intent was to set up a vagrant box to just do the monitoring, so it will just be a pre-configured box with statsd and Graphie with some basic settings. Theere were some older boxes available but they did not seem as straight forward as I wanted.

Requirements

1. Vagrant
2. Virtualbox

Instructions

1. Clone the repository
2. cd into the statsd sirectory
3. Run

  vagrant up

Viewing and sending data to the virtualbox

1. Point your brower to http://localhost:18080 - You should see the Grapite welcome screen
2. Run phantomas with the appropriate settings (See below)
3. On Graphite add data to the graph - the timings from the example below will be under Graphite stata.timings.google.home

  phantomas --no-externals --url http://google.com --format statsd --statsd-host localhost --statsd-port 18125 --statsd-prefix "google.home."

You could optionally install phantomas on the virtual box but I prefer to manage this on my main system - I have soem basic auth unformation in mine for some testing that I am doing.

To run phantomas in debug mode, just prefix the command with DEBUG=*

  DEBUG=* phantomas --no-externals --url http://google.com --format statsd --statsd-host localhost --statsd-port 18125 --statsd-prefix "google.home."

Thanks

Thanks to This article on elao.com and Nam Nguyen's script