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vimeo / graph-explorer

A graphite dashboard powered by structured metrics
http://vimeo.github.io/graph-explorer/
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graph-explorer seems not to be able to get graphite data. #22

Closed andri-ch closed 11 years ago

andri-ch commented 11 years ago

Hi, Congratulations for graph-explorer!

I have one issue: I have a working graphite+diamond installation. I installed graph-explorer, started it, but in browser when I go to http://localhost:8080/debug, I get the message: server is waiting until structured metrics dataset is ready. can't continue

How could I address this? In the graph-explorer's docs, there's a mention to a file named "metrics.json". I don't have that file. From what I understand, graphite is supposed to create that.

Andrei

Dieterbe commented 11 years ago

did you follow the "Configuration of graph-explorer" instructions in the readme?

andri-ch commented 11 years ago

Ok, found the solution!

But first, some detective work: When I ran $: sudo python ./update_metrics.py I got this error: 2013-05-23 12:38:06,810 - update_metrics - INFO - fetching/saving metrics from graphite... 2013-05-23 12:41:16,613 - update_metrics - ERROR - sorry, something went wrong: < urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out >

I noticed that update_metrics.py makes a request to http://path_to_graphite/metrics/index.json. But in the browser, when I went to that address, I got(from what I recall): IOError: permission denied: open('/opt/graphite/storage/index', 'w')

Solution: create the file named 'index': $: sudo touch /opt/graphite/storage/index and when you run update_metrics.py, data should be fetched from graphite.

Dieterbe commented 11 years ago

so basically you had an issue with your graphite setup.. your index file had the wrong permissions. Just touching it doesn't seem like a good solution (rather chmod), but whatever.

Btw G-E doesn't need root..