Install Graphite on a Debian Server

example.sh

# Install graphite dependencies
apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip python3-cairo python3-django
apt-get install -y apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3

# Install graphite
pip3 install https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/tarball/master
pip3 install https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/tarball/master
pip3 install https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/tarball/master

# 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://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/blob/master/examples/example-graphite-vhost.conf -O /etc/apache2/sites-available/graphite.conf
perl -i -pe 's/\@DJANGO_ROOT\@/\/usr\/lib\/python3\/dist-packages\/django/g' /etc/apache2/sites-available/graphite.conf

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
cp storage-aggregation.conf.example storage-aggregation.conf

# Let's go back to the installation process
django-admin.py makemigrations --settings=graphite.settings --pythonpath=/opt/graphite/webapp
django-admin.py migrate --run-syncdb --settings=graphite.settings --pythonpath=/opt/graphite/webapp
django-admin.py createsuperuser --settings=graphite.settings --pythonpath=/opt/graphite/webapp
django-admin.py collectstatic --noinput --settings=graphite.settings --pythonpath=/opt/graphite/webapp

chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/graphite/storage/
chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/graphite/static/

# Adjust dir permissions (in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/graphite.conf
<Directory /opt/graphite/conf/>
    Require all granted
</Directory>


<Directory /opt/graphite/static/>
    Require all granted
</Directory>


# Enabling graphite host
a2ensite graphite
a2enmod wsgi
/opt/graphite/bin/carbon-cache.py start
systemctl restart apache2

to get the raw config the url needs to be: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/master/examples/example-graphite-vhost.conf