How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Re:How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd... by wickedchicken on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @12:34PM (#3982743)

Excuse the blatant advertising (I contracted with these guys), but Librato Metrics is intended to work like 'Graphite as SaaS' so you don't have to go through this crazy process. They also subscribe to the thought that your metrics should be separate from your production infrastructure -- otherwise when your servers melt your graphing server melts too :). Obviously if you want to stay pure open source then this won't apply, but otherwise it's a pretty neat service. https://metrics.librato.com/ and https://github.com/librato

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Re:How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd... by hcarvalhoalves on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @03:17PM (#3983551)

This service looks great, seems to be just like Graphite feature-wise, but without the clunkyness. The problem is that the pricing makes absolutely no sense and is hard to estimate.

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Re:How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd... by wickedchicken on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @04:12PM (#3983785)

They "charge $0.000002 per measurement. As simple as that." -> https://metrics.librato.com/pricing

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Re:How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd... by hcarvalhoalves on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @05:53PM (#3984226)

The point is: what constitutes a "measurement"? A data point for each metric I submit? Or can I send data points for multiple metrics in a batch, is this considered a single "measurement"? I have no idea, and the support page doesn't cover that. That means, if I can't word it clearly to my financial department, they won't subscribe.

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Re:How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd... by josephruscio on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @07:11PM (#3984553)

Appreciate the feedback (librato co-founder here), we should definitely make that clearer on the pricing page and elsewhere. We're in the process of adding some content around that now.

In short a measurement is a single datapoint i.e. <key, value, timestamp>. So if you have a sense of how many metrics you want to track and at what frequency, it's relatively straight-forward to calculate the list price. There's an estimator on the pricing page to help you do that once you understand what constitutes a "measurement".

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Re:How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd... by stock_toaster on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @08:36PM (#3984805)

Is that price competitive? I only looked at stat-hat recently, and for whatever reason their pricing seemed more reasonable. Perhaps it was just how they pitch it, as units by the million.

That said, librato seems like it would be nice if your stat volume was low.

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Re:How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd... by josephruscio on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @10:41PM (#3985102)

I think it's definitely competitive if you look across all the entrants in this space (or similar/adjacent) ones. That doesn't necessarily make us the lowest priced however ;-). Roughly speaking a million measurements costs $2.00 with our current list pricing. We do have progressive volume discounts (described in the FAQ) that kick in at higher measurement counts.

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