Diamond Install

1-diamond-install.md

What is Diamond?

https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond

From their wiki:

Diamond is a python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite. It is capable of collecting cpu, memory, network, i/o, load and disk metrics. Additionally, it features an API for implementing custom collectors for gathering metrics from almost any source.

Deps

apt-get install build-essentials
apt-get install python-dev
pip install psutil
pip install configobj

Installation

Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04)

• Clone the repo (git clone https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond.git)
• Run sudo make install
• Create and modify /etc/diamond/diamond.conf (copy the example config)
  • Change 'collectors_path' to be '/usr/local/share/diamond/collectors/'
• Run mkdir /var/log/diamond
• Replace the init script with the one found below.

2-diamond-init-script-ubuntu-precise.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# diamond       Start the diamond statistics collector
#
# chkconfig: 2345 99 01
# description: Diamond is a daemon and toolset for gathering system statistics \
#              and publishing them to Graphite.
# processname: python
# config: /etc/diamond/diamond.conf
# pidfile: /var/run/diamond.pid
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          diamond
# Required-Start:    $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:     $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: System statistics collector for Graphite.
# Description:       Diamond is a daemon and toolset for gathering system statistics
#                    and publishing them to Graphite.
### END INIT INFO
# Author: Sam Bashton <sam@bashton.com>

NAME=diamond
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/diamond
DAEMON_ARGS="-p /var/run/diamond.pid"
PIDFILE=/var/run/diamond.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/diamond

start() {
  echo -n "Starting $NAME: "
  start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_ARGS
  echo -n "$NAME."
}

stop() {
  echo -n $"Stopping $NAME: "
  start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
  echo -n "$NAME."
}

restart() {
  stop
  start
}

case "$1" in
  start)
    start
    ;;
  stop)
    stop
    ;;
  restart)
    restart
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
    exit 2
    ;;
esac

exit $?