graphite diagram

gistfile1.txt

digraph GraphiteHowItWorks {

labelloc="t"
label=<
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLBORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0">
  <TR><TD>
    Graphite - How it works
  </TD></TR>
</TABLE>
>

fontname="Times-Roman"
fontsize="14"

node [shape=record, fontname="Times-Roman", fontsize="12", style="filled,bold", fixedsize=true, width=1.5]
edge [fontsize="12" fontname="Times-Roman"]

browser [label="Browser", fillcolor="#A9D9F9"]
webapp [label="{Apache - modwsgi}", fillcolor="#9AF7F9"]

whisper [label="{metrics files}", fillcolor="#F2A662"]

browser:s->webapp:w [label="1. http request", dir="forward"]
browser:s->webapp:n [label="6. rendered graph", dir="back"]

metric_sender [label="{Metric Sender}", fillcolor="#A9D9F9"]
metric_sender:s->carbon:e [label="a. send metric data", dir="forward"]

webapp:s->whisper:w [label="2. read files", dir="forward"]
webapp:s->whisper:n [label="3. metrics data", dir="back"]

webapp:e->carbon:w [label="4. query metrics", dir="forward"]
webapp:e->carbon:n [label="5. metric data", dir="back"]

carbon [label="{Carbon Cache}", fillcolor="#A3ECC9"]
carbon:s->whisper:e [label="b. write to files", dir="forward"]

graphviz dot file of graphite diagram