- OSX Command line tools - You can download it from http://connect.apple.com
- Homebrew http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/
Before continuing to the installation section. Please make sure that /usr/bin/local comes before /usr/bin in your /etc/paths file.
brew install python
XQuartz is required by cairo library. If you haven't installed this you can download it from here http://xquartz.macosforge.org/
brew install cairo, py2cairo
Notes: If your system doesn't have pip installed. You can install it via sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install carbon
sudo pip install whisper
sudo pip install django==1.4.5
sudo pip install django-tagging
sudo pip install graphite-web
Notes: By default pip will try to download the latest version of the software so this might be a problem in some cases. Graphite has some problem when I tried to install it using latest django 1.5+. Some people suggests to use 1.4.5
After successfully installed graphite, /opt/graphite/ directory will be created. This will contain graphite-related stuffs.
Update Django's settings.py located at /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/settings.py and add the following code at the bottom of the file
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': os.path.join(STORAGE_DIR, 'graphite.db'),
},
}
Then execute these commands.
cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/
python manage.py syncdb
sudo chown -R nobody:nobody /opt/graphite/storage/
cd /opt/graphite/conf
cp storage-schemas.conf.example storage-schemas.conf
cp carbon.conf.example carbon.conf
# Create a bin directory for Graphite
mkdir /opt/graphite/bin
ln -s /usr/local/share/python/run-graphite-devel-server.py /opt/graphite/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/share/python/carbon-cache.py /opt/graphite/bin/
python /opt/graphite/bin/carbon-cache.py start # You can use --debug to enable debugging mode
python /opt/graphite/bin/run-graphite-devel-server.py /opt/graphite/
Then open http://localhost:8080 and have fun!