GUI for statsd data other than Graphite?

Question

I just installed graphite/statsd for production use. I'm really happy with it, but one of my co-workers asked me if there was a way to make it look prettier. Honestly, I can't say that I haven't wonder the same.

Are there alternatives to the Graphite UI that do a better job rendering data, perhaps using one of the awesome frontend graphing libraries and http push?

Solution 1

On the latest Graphite docs page, there is a list of tools which work with Graphite. For reference, here are the ones which seem to be prettification-based:

• Charcoal
• Descartes
• GDash
• Giraffe
• Graphitus
• Graph-Explorer
• Graphene
• Graphiti
• Graphsky
• Pencil
• Tasseo

Additional interesting resources:

• Graphitoid: (an Android-App dashboard)
• Graphitejs: (a jQuery plugin for making/displaying Graphite graphs)
• Seyren: (an alerting dashboard for Graphite)

For details on each one, check out their pages, or take a look at the description on the first link I added, for the Graphite docs page.

Solution 2

Try Grafana

It has a very nice UI and advanced dashboard and graph editing features. Very simple to install.

Solution 3

If you don't want to code up your own frontend, you can use Graphiti. It is simple to use and looks great!

Solution 4

A-ha! I did some googling and found Cubism.js which does exactly what I need.

It has integrated support for graphite and provides the necessary graphing components (as a plugin to D3) to create beautiful real-time dashboards.

Solution 5

I can see this is a bit old, but thought I'd add to it for future prosperity:

I went through a few of the options listed in @troy's response (and a few others). You can see my impressions in my blog post

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Comments

[mjuarez]

That's a great comparison of the available options. +1!

[tuomassalo]

Orion looks nice, but seems quite stale as a project. It lacks some fundamental features, at least support for using Graphite functions.

[Felix]

Grafana is definitely the best one! One feature that is missing though is notifications.

[ali haider]

great work - I'm trying to set it up with Nginx and Graphite but not able to get any data from graphite -any ideas? stackoverflow.com/questions/23374405/…

[Torkel]

@Felix notifications, what do you mean?

[Felix]

Basically, I mean alerts. But I see, that Grafana is a client-side dashboard and it is not designed for that. Nevertheless, alerts are a important piece of the puzzle in the graphite/metrics domain. Dashboards are pretty, but automation for threshold checking is crucial for efficiency - especially, if you've got a lot of metrics. So some sort of integration with alerting systems would be nice.

[maracuja-juice]

@Felix there are Notifications now

[maracuja-juice]

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