# A distro agnostic guide to Graphite with venv (examples: RHEL8, Debian10, Ubuntu18)

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/a-distro-agnostic-guide-to-graphite-with-venv-examples-rhel8-debian10-ubuntu18/1424>\
**Category:** Tutorials and Guides\
**Tags:** metrics, perfdata, graphite\
**Created:** [June 10, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/a-distro-agnostic-guide-to-graphite-with-venv-examples-rhel8-debian10-ubuntu18/1424 "2019-06-10T13:21:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jozef2020](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Jozef2020](https://community.icinga.com/u/Jozef2020)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/a-distro-agnostic-guide-to-graphite-with-venv-examples-rhel8-debian10-ubuntu18/1424/17 "2020-05-21T12:03:06Z")

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Hello,

I have problem with started carbon-relay.service

[root@lmaster ~]# cat /etc/systemd/system/carbon-relay.service  
[Unit]  
Description=Graphite Carbon Relay  
After=network.target

[Service]  
Environment=PATH=/opt/graphite/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin  
Environment=PYTHONPATH=/opt/graphite/webapp:/opt/graphite  
Environment=VIRTUAL\_ENV=/opt/graphite  
Type=forking  
StandardOutput=syslog  
StandardError=syslog  
ExecStart=/opt/graphite/bin/carbon-relay.py --config=/opt/graphite/conf/carbon.conf --pidfile=/var/run/carbon-relay.pid start  
ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID  
PIDFile=/var/run/carbon-relay.pid  
Restart=always

[Install]  
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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May 21 13:20:46 lmaster.localdomain systemd[1]: carbon-relay.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1  
May 21 13:20:46 lmaster.localdomain systemd[1]: carbon-relay.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.  
May 21 13:20:46 lmaster.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start Graphite Carbon Relay.

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I am try start directly carbon-relay.py

[root@lmaster ~]# /opt/graphite/bin/carbon-relay.py --config=/opt/graphite/conf/carbon.conf --pidfile=/var/run/carbon-relay.pid start  
Removing stale pidfile /var/run/carbon-relay.pid  
Starting carbon-relay (instance a)  
An error has occurred: b’socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known’  
Please look at log file for more information.

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In the icinga2.log is  
[2020-05-21 12:23:46 +0200] warning/GraphiteWriter: Can’t connect to Graphite on host ‘127.0.0.1’ port ‘2013.’  
Context:  
(0) Reconnecting to Graphite ‘graphite’

[2020-05-21 12:23:46 +0200] information/GraphiteWriter: Finished reconnecting to Graphite in 0.00087595 second(s).  
[2020-05-21 12:23:46 +0200] information/IdoMysqlConnection: MySQL IDO instance id: 1 (schema version: ‘1.14.3’)  
[2020-05-21 12:23:46 +0200] information/IdoMysqlConnection: Finished reconnecting to ‘ido-mysql’ database ‘icinga’ in 0.0871511 second(s).  
[2020-05-21 12:23:47 +0200] critical/GraphiteWriter: Cannot write to TCP socket on host ‘127.0.0.1’ port ‘2013’.

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Do you have any idea ?

Thanks  
Jozef

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