Creating a Graphite dashboard

Perhaps we saved the best Graphite feature for last. A major concern when monitoring the activity of a highly available PostgreSQL server is that of visibility. So far, we've seen that Graphite makes data visible and offers a lot of customization. However, we still need a solution to view multiple graphs at once.

This at-a-glance usage is invaluable for watching several servers at once or viewing multiple aspects of a single server in depth. Thankfully, Graphite has us covered in this regard and provides a robust dashboard view specifically to view multiple graphs simultaneously.

Let's explore this final exciting feature.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will be combining the results of all the previous recipes related to collectd and Graphite. We recommend that you have a functional monitor server configured, as discussed in those recipes. We also recommend that you create at least one saved graph that we can load in the dashboard we construct.

How to do it...

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