Why using Grafana module with Graphite instead of Graphite module?

Matthias Fleschütz
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:58:33 +0000
Visualization, Metrics & Reporting

Hi guys,

perfdata visualization drove me made for such a long time (somehow I want my oldschool PNP with RRD back ).
I found already some threads here about Graphite vs. InfluxDB so I decided to use Graphite-Carbon as “Backend” and somehow I managed to get GraphiteWriter running quite well and easy.

What drove me mad is the frontend part…and honestly I some (not updated?) documentations made it even worse. So now I want to ask you about your experience and opinions:

As I read you can also use Grafana as a frontend / renderer for Graphite-Carbone. By trying this out I always get stucked by letting Grafana access my Carbon/Whisper data directly and it seems that only http / proxy is allowed in latest versions. So I would have to set up Graphite-Web anyway to put Grafana in front of it again.
So: why should I do that? If I have to install Graphite-Web for Grafana anyway, why not using the Graphite icingaweb2-module directly? Is there any advantage (only regarding icingaweb2 functions) for Grafana?
Did anybody of you managed to let Grafana access Graphite-Carbon directly without Graphite-Web in front?

Thanks a lot,
M.

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