Introduction
Collecting and visualizing data is an important way to make informed decisions about your servers and projects.
In a previous guide, we discussed how to install and configure Graphite to visualize data on our servers. However, we didn’t have a good way of collecting or even passing data into Graphite.
In this guide, we’ll discuss the installation and use of collectd
, a system statistics gatherer that can collect and organize metrics about your server and running services.
We will show you how to install and configure collectd to pass data into Graphite to render. We will assume that you have Graphite up and running on an Ubuntu 14.04 server as we showed you in the last guide.