Turn an Ubuntu 12.04 Amazon EC2 Micro instance into a StatsD/Bucky/Graphite server

setup-statsd.sh

# install git
sudo apt-get install g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils make
sudo apt-get install git-core

# download the Node source, compile and install it
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
git checkout v0.6
./configure
make
sudo make install

# Install Bucky - https://github.com/cloudant/bucky
sudo apt-get install python-pip -y
sudo pip install bucky
# TODO setup Bucky for receiving Collectd info

# Install Forever
sudo npm install -g forever

# clone the statsd project
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/etsy/statsd.git

# download everything for graphite
mkdir graphite
cd graphite/
wget "http://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.9/+download/whisper-0.9.9.tar.gz"
wget "http://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.9/+download/carbon-0.9.9.tar.gz"
wget "http://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.9/+download/graphite-web-0.9.9.tar.gz"
tar xzvf whisper-0.9.9.tar.gz 
tar xzvf carbon-0.9.9.tar.gz 
tar xzvf graphite-web-0.9.9.tar.gz

# install whisper - Graphite's DB system
cd whisper-0.9.9
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..

# install carbon - the Graphite back-end
cd carbon-0.9.9
sudo python setup.py install
cd /opt/graphite/conf
sudo cp carbon.conf.example carbon.conf

# copy the example schema configuration file, and then configure the schema
# see: http://graphite.wikidot.com/getting-your-data-into-graphite
sudo cp storage-schemas.conf.example storage-schemas.conf

# install other graphite dependencies
sudo apt-get install python-cairo python-django memcached python-memcache python-ldap python-twisted apache2 libapache2-mod-python

cd graphite/graphite-web-0.9.9
sudo python setup.py install

# copy the graphite vhost example to available sites, edit it to you satisfaction, then link it from sites-enabled
cp examples/example-graphite-vhost.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/graphite.conf
ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/graphite.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/graphite.conf
apache2ctl restart

# I had to create these log files manually 
/opt/graphite/storage/log/webapp
touch info.log
chmod 777 info.log
touch exception.log
chmod 777 exception.log

# make sure to change ownership of the storage folder to the Apache user/group - mine was www-data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/graphite/storage/
cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite

# copy the local_settings example file to creating the app's settings
# this is where both carbon federation and authentication is configured
cp local_settings.py.example local_settings.py

# run syncdb to setup the db and prime the authentication model (if you're using the DB model)
sudo python manage.py syncdb

# start the carbon cache
cd /opt/graphite/bin/carbon-cache.py start

# copy the the statsd config example to create the config file
# unless you used non-default ports for some other feature of the system, the defaults in the config file are fine
cd ~/statsd
cp exampleConfig.js local.js

# start statsd
node stats.js local.js

Thanks! I needed to run "sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi" as well to get apache to restart with that vhost