Install Graphite on Debian Server

example.sh

# Installing graphite dependencies
apt-get install -y python2.6 python-pip python-cairo python-django python-django-tagging
apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-wsgi python-twisted python-memcache python-pysqlite2 python-simplejson 
pip install whisper
pip install carbon
pip install graphite-web

# Setup a vhost by grabbing the example the graphite team released on their repo.
# In this file, you'll provide the url used to access to your Graphite dashboard
wget https://raw.github.com/tmm1/graphite/master/examples/example-graphite-vhost.conf -O /etc/apache2/sites-available/graphite

# If you are running on a Debian, don't forget to replace in the vhost, the WSGISocketPrefix value by the following:
WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/apache2/wsgi

# Configuring graphite
cd /opt/graphite/conf/
cp graphite.wsgi.example graphite.wsgi
cp carbon.conf.example carbon.conf
cp storage-schemas.conf.example storage-schemas.conf

# Edit storage-schemas.conf in order to include a custom tweak provided by stats.d
[stats]
pattern = ^stats.*
retentions = 10:2160,60:10080,600:262974

[carbon]
pattern = ^carbon\.
retentions = 60:90d

[default_1min_for_1day]
pattern = .*
retentions = 60s:1d

# Create a vi storage-aggregation.conf 
vi storage-aggregation.conf

# Then copy paste in it the following parameters
[min]
pattern = \.min$
xFilesFactor = 0.1
aggregationMethod = min

[max]
pattern = \.max$
xFilesFactor = 0.1
aggregationMethod = max

[sum]
pattern = \.count$
xFilesFactor = 0
aggregationMethod = sum

[default_average]
pattern = .*
xFilesFactor = 0.3
aggregationMethod = average

# Let's go back to the installation process
cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite
python manage.py syncdb
chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/graphite/storage/

# Enabling graphite host
a2ensite graphite
/opt/graphite/bin/carbon-cache.py start
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart