Installing Graphite on Debian 9.4

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Hi Everyone,

I am trying to install Graphite on Debian 9.4 server. I have already installed Icinga2 version r2.11.2-1 with Icinga Director all working. This server has no access to internet. It uses an internal repository.

But I am hitting a brick in trying to install Graphite. Is there any how to document available here. I was following a how to from here but I have been having problems with the python manage.py syncdb command.

Also tried to follow install instruction on the Graphite website, that was too confusing/advanced for me I guess.

Please advise what is the best way to install Graphite in this case for graph visualization.

I also came across Graphite API as I was researching the install procedure. Could that be used instead?

Thank you very much

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Hi.
Maybe this will help you (well, not explicitly for Debian 9.4, but extremely helpful)

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Hi Homerjay, thank you for the assist.

Followed through the tutorial, got everything setup correctly or so I thought.

The graph is empty

Icinga Graph-1
Icinga Graph-1754×813 36.7 KB

But the graph appears on the Graphite section of Icinga

Icinga Graph-2
Icinga Graph-2788×603 44.4 KB

Any idea where I went wrong?

Thanks again.

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Try CTRL+F5 for refreshing the cache.
If that doesn’t help try setting the character set for the icinga_ido resource to latin1. I still have no idea why that works, but mostly it does.
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Additionally:
As far as I remember, once I had a similar problem when I changed the storage-schemas without adjusting the whisper files which were already present.

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Thanks log1c/homerjay. While I was waiting for the reply I ran through the graphite setup again and that seemed to have fixed that issue.

Now I have about 500 servers to add to this monitoring tool. What would be the easiest way to accomplish this?

Thanks again for your help.

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I, personally, am a huge fan of the Icinga Director. With this you can import from various sources.
https://icinga.com/docs/director/latest/
https://icinga.com/docs/director/latest/doc/70-Import-and-Sync/
https://icinga.com/docs/director/latest/doc/74-Self-Service-API/
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Check the forums for topics that might help you, and ask for help in a new topic when you encounter problems: https://community.icinga.com/c/icinga-director/8

Also, kindly pick a solution to this topic so other can see that the problem is resolved.