This gist contains everything you need to install StatsD and Graphite on CentOS 6.3. Unless I forgot something. If I did, shoot a reminder email to noah at one more bug dot com. tl;dr womm.
I (mostly) followed the steps shown in the EZUnix wiki
And I also referred back to this gist by Michael Grace
| # Set up a new Centos 6.3 instance | |
| # install tools with Yum | |
| sudo yum -y install emacs git-all screen gcc \ | |
| tree iotop \ | |
| nc lynx | |
| # install Spark from source | |
| wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/holman/spark/master/spark | |
| chmod a+x spark |
| # Sonar for PHP installation for CentOS 6 | |
| # See http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Installing+PHP+Environment | |
| /sbin/service mysqld start | |
| sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation | |
| # for non-production instances, choose not to create a root password | |
| mkdir /var/sonar | |
| wget http://dist.sonar.codehaus.org/sonar-3.4.1.zip | |
| unzip sonar-3.4.1.zip |