Step-by-step guide to installing NodeJS, StatsD and Graphite on the Amazon Linux AMI

Graphite on Amazon Linux

# Apply updates
sudo yum update
 
 
# Enable Epel Repo
sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo. 
# Under the section marked [epel], change enabled=0 to enabled=1.
 
 
# Install packages
sudo yum install python-devel.x86_64 python-pip.noarch mod_wsgi.x86_64 mod_python.x86_64 python-sqlite2.x86_64 bitmap.x86_64 pycairo.x86_64 python-zope-interface.x86_64 python-simplejson.x86_64 django-tagging.noarch python-pip.noarch python-twisted-web.x86_64 bitmap bitmap-fonts gcc-c++.x86_64 openssl-devel.x86_64 git.x86_64 make.x86_64
 
 
# Install Graphite etc
sudo pip-python install carbon
sudo pip-python install graphite-web
sudo pip-python install whisper
 
 
# Copy example configs to .conf
pushd /opt/graphite/conf
sudo cp carbon.conf.example carbon.conf
sudo cp storage-schemas.conf.example storage-schemas.conf
sudo cp storage-aggregation.conf.example storage-aggregation.conf
sudo cp graphTemplates.conf.example graphTemplates.conf
 
 
# Edit storage-schemas.conf
sudo vim storage-schemas.conf
 
# Add the following to top of config settings
### [stats]
### priority = 110
### pattern = ^stats\..*
### retentions = 10s:7d,1m:21d,15m:91d,1h:5y
 
 
# Edit storage-aggregation.conf
sudo vim storage-aggregation.conf
 
# Add the following to config settings
### [counters]
### pattern = stats.counts.*
### xFilesFactor = 0.0
### aggregationMethod = sum
 
 
# Copy important file
sudo cp graphite.wsgi.example graphite.wsgi
 
 
# Make WSGI Directory
sudo mkdir /etc/httpd/wsgi
 
 
# Configure apache2
sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
 
# Add the following at line 223
### Include "/etc/httpd/vhosts/*.conf"
 
 
# Create the new directory
sudo mkdir /etc/httpd/vhosts
 
 
# Setup Graphite
sudo vim /etc/httpd/vhosts/graphite-vhost.conf
 
# Add the following to file
 
    	# On Red Hat
			 WSGISocketPrefix /etc/httpd/wsgi/
 
			 <VirtualHost *:80>
					ServerName graphite
					DocumentRoot "/opt/graphite/webapp"
					ErrorLog /opt/graphite/storage/log/webapp/error.log
					CustomLog /opt/graphite/storage/log/webapp/access.log common
 
					# I've found that an equal number of processes & threads tends
					# to show the best performance for Graphite (ymmv).
					WSGIDaemonProcess graphite processes=5 threads=5 display-name='%{GROUP}' inactivity-timeout=120
					WSGIProcessGroup graphite
					WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
					WSGIImportScript /opt/graphite/conf/graphite.wsgi process-group=graphite application-group=%{GLOBAL}
 
					# XXX You will need to create this file! There is a graphite.wsgi.example
					# file in this directory that you can safely use, just copy it to graphite.wgsi
					WSGIScriptAlias / /opt/graphite/conf/graphite.wsgi 
 
					Alias /content/ /opt/graphite/webapp/content/
					<Location "/content/">
							SetHandler None
					</Location>
 
					# XXX In order for the django admin site media to work you
					# must change @CHANGE_ME_TO_DJANGO_ROOT@ to be the path to your django
					# installation, which is probably something like:
					# /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django
					Alias /media/ "@CHANGE_ME_TO_DJANGO_ROOT@/contrib/admin/media/"
					<Location "/media/">
							SetHandler None
					</Location>
					# The graphite.wsgi file has to be accessible by apache. It won't
					# be visible to clients because of the DocumentRoot though.
					<Directory /opt/graphite/conf/>
							Order deny,allow
							Allow from all
					</Directory>
 
			 </VirtualHost>
 
			 
			 
# Let the Apache user be the owner of /opt/graphite/
sudo chown -R apache:apache /opt/graphite/
 
 
# Restart Apache
sudo /sbin/service httpd restart
 
 
# Configure Graphite Web
cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite
sudo python manage.py syncdb
# You will be prompted to create an admin user; most people will want to do this.
 
 
# Start Carbon, Graphite's data aggregator
cd /opt/graphite/
sudo ./bin/carbon-cache.py start
 
 
# Node.js
# Install required packages
sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
 
 
# Install Node.js... This takes about 20-30 minutes, get yourself a coffee
cd /tmp
sudo git clone http://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
sudo git checkout v0.10.4
sudo ./configure 
sudo make 
sudo make install
 
 
# Make some links
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/node /usr/lib/node
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/bin/npm
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node-waf /usr/bin/node-waf
 
 
# Install NPM
cd /tmp
sudo wget http://npmjs.org/install.sh
sudo sh install.sh
cd /usr/local/bin/
sudo npm install express
 
 
# Install StatsD
cd /tmp
git clone http://github.com/etsy/statsd.git
sudo cp -R /tmp/statsd /opt/graphite
 
 
# Start Node.js/StatsD
cd /opt/graphite/statsd
sudo cp exampleConfig.js local.js
 
 
# Edit local.js
sudo vim local.js
# Configure the following
###  graphitePort: 2003
### graphiteHost: "127.0.0.1"
### port: 8125
 
 
# Start things up!
nohup /usr/local/bin/node stats.js local.js &

Which amazon AMI are you using?

Hi, sorry for slow reply - this is using the Amazon Linux AMI (64bit)

Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03.1
The Amazon Linux AMI is an EBS-backed, PV-GRUB image. It includes Linux 3.4, AWS tools, and repository access to multiple versions of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Ruby, and Tomcat.