graphite

Graphite interfacer

Graphite is an enterprise-ready timeseries database capable of collecting millions of metrics per minute. It has a powerful API and function set for querying and manipulating the data. For details on graphite see https://graphiteapp.org/

It is frequently paired with Grafana for dashboards and visualizations

Usage and configuration

Simply configure interface with host, port and interval of your graphite installation. Metrics get sent to a path similar to the nodevar format as MQTT interface.

Ex: <prefix>.emonPi.power1

Parameters

• pubchannels and subchannels

  Same usage as other interfacers

• graphite_host

  Host or IP of your graphite server

• graphite_port

  Graphite tcp metrics port. (Default: 2003)

• senddata

  Set to 0 to disable sending metrics. (Default: 1)

• interval

  Frequency, in seconds, to send metrics. (Default: 30) (Should be set the same in your graphite storage scheme)

• prefix

  Prefix for graphite storage path. (Default: emonpi)

Sample interfacer config within emonhub.conf

    [[Graphite]]
        Type = EmonHubGraphiteInterfacer
        [[[init_settings]]]
        [[[runtimesettings]]]
            pubchannels = ToRFM12,
            subchannels = ToEmonCMS,
            graphite_host = graphite.example.com,
            graphite_port = 2003,
            senddata = 1,
            interval = 30,
            prefix = emonpi

With this config in place now you simply need to restart emonhub on your emonpi by ssh'ing into it and typing

  $> sudo service emonhub restart

If there are any problems you can debug by looking inside /var/emonhub/emonhub.log