If you’re running collectd chances are you’ve struggled or are struggling with the web frontend. The one shipped with collectd has some limitations and most people tend to use 3rd party solutions like Visage. Having looked at that and another few I wasn’t really happy with any of them due to dependencies or simple lack of functionalities. In the meantime I finally got some time to play with Graphite, which is a relatively new metrics [...]
Introduction I wanted to try out a new webserver and chose mongrel2. To get hyped about mongrel2, read about its features and then try the quick start guide. I was also setting up graphite on the same server and previously used apache for that. So I could just proxy all graphite requests from mongrel2 to apache, or I could do try to get mongrel2 to talk wsgi to graphite directly. I chose latter and here’s how [...]
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Hi, my name is Spike Morelli and this is my thinking lab. Over the past 13 years of career in the tech industry I've been a developer, a system engineer, a devops person, a manager and a startup owner. I've taken the best from each experience and brought it into the next, innovating and focusing on delivering value. I have a passion for sociology and communication, but above all I care about making people happy, it's incredibly rewarding and happy folks do the best work.
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