Customizing a Graphite graph

Graphite graphs are very helpful in their default form, even though they simply reflect the data they can access. One of the less obvious features that Graphite offers is data transformation. Graphite has several choices for line and background colors, legend names, and so on. We can calculate moving averages, standard deviations, and logs.

There is a lot of extra functionality available in Graphite, and only exploration will truly unveil much of it. We'll introduce a few basic examples in this recipe.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will be combining the results of all the previous recipes related to collectd and Graphite. We recommend that you have a functional monitor server configured, as discussed in those recipes.

How to do it...

Follow these instructions to apply several transformations to a simple graph:

1. Direct a web browser at the monitor server on port 8080.
2. Click on the Graphite and collectd links on the left pane.
3. Click on the name of the server to view...