IT has been prototyping storing some time series data in graphite with some handy dashboards in graphana (<100 metrics, <10 dashboards)
I did this myself for a short while, and then moved to a hosted service (hostedgraphite) for more prototyping.
I'd like to ask if graphite can be setup as a service for other departments looking to use it.
Cheers,
Joel Krauska
I think there are good reasons to keep the production and OIT infrastructures separate. Such moves create unnecessary ties in my opinion and we should avoid it. (For similar reasons, Labs has its own Graphite install and does not use production's).
Setting up Graphite/Grafana in the OIT domain shouldn't be too hard. You can reuse our puppet manifests if you want, although these may be an overkill for your use case :)
Thanks for the quick response.
It's much simpler for IT to continue using the hosted solution. We will keep doing that.
I am hopeful that Ops Infrastructure will consider modeling future systems in more of a service-oriented direction for all teams/departments.
Best,
Joel
Are there any servers owned by WMF that aren't either in production datacentres or run by Office IT in SF? It sounds like almost everyone working on technical things at WMF has access (or can easily get access after approval and agreement of ops etc.) to production graphite already.
@faidon has actual authority over this sort of thing, I do not. I'm just puzzled by your "I am hopeful that Ops Infrastructure will consider modeling future systems in more of a service-oriented direction for all teams/departments." comment.
My understanding is that things in production infrastructure should be able to access production graphite, and it seems very easy for people in WMF to get their code into production where they could take advantage of this, so I don't see an issue.