From the course: Graphite and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance

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The Graphite UI

The Graphite UI

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The Graphite UI

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- [Instructor] In this section of the course, we will briefly examine the UI provided by Graphite, as well as discuss why we may not want to use it for our front end experience. First, we can start up our Graphite docker container. We will do this by running docker run -d -p, and we'll expose a number of ports, including 80:80, 2003-2004:2003-2004, 2023-2024:2023-2024, and 8125:8125/udp for StatsD. And then we will use the graphiteapp/graphite-statsd image. Hit Enter. This will pull down all of the layers of this Docker image for us to use, and then start a container using that image. This will start up a StatsD server and complete Graphite setup, including Graphite-web. Now that this is running, we can return to our StatsD script used in the StatsD section of the course to generate some test metrics. So we can type python statsd_script.py and hit Enter. And once again, we'll be generating metrics. Now that metrics are flowing into the system, open up the browser and navigate to…

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