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Install Graphite on OSX

Installing graphite on OSX is a pain. This post is a quick note that I would never want to go through again. If you are looking this post, I’d suggest you to install graphite on linux.

Most installation steps are from this gist.

Xquartz and Cairo

If you don’t have X11 installed, go to xquartz and install it on your mac. Then, install cairo via homebrew.

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brew install cairo

Pythonbrew

Install pythonbrew and setup environment variables.

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curl -kL http://xrl.us/pythonbrewinstall | bash
echo '[[ -s $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc ]] && source $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc' >> ~/.bashrc
[[ -s $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc ]] && source $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc
pythonbrew install -framework -f 2.7.2
pythonbrew use 2.7.2
pythonbrew venv create graphite
pythonbrew venv use graphite

Python-cairo

This part is the real pain. On linux, just use sudo apt-get install python-cairo, it’s much much more simpler.

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brew install autotools

cd ~/tmp
git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/py2cairo
cd py2cairo

export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/Cellar/pkg-config/0.28/share/aclocal/"
export MY_PYTHON_PATH=`python -c 'import sys; print sys.prefix'|perl -nle 'm|^.*(?=/bin)|');print $&`
./autogen.sh --prefix=$MY_PYTHON_PATH
./configure

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=`brew --prefix cairo`/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=$MY_PYTHON_PATH

export CAIRO_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.14/include/cairo/"
export CAIRO_LIBS="-L/usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.14/lib/ -lcairo"

C_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/X11/include/ make
make install

Python dependencies

For the rest of the steps are all copied from the gist.

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pip install carbon
pip install whisper
pip install django==1.3.1
pip install django-tagging
pip install graphite-web

Setup graphite

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cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite
python manage.py syncdb

cd /opt/graphite/conf
cp storage-schemas.conf.example storage-schemas.conf
cp carbon.conf.example carbon.conf

cd /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite
echo "TIME_ZONE = 'America/Los_Angeles'" > local_settings.py
# use appropriate timezone that you're in

Running graphite

  1. /opt/graphite/bin/carbon-cache.py start

  2. /opt/graphite/bin/run-graphite-devel-server.py /opt/graphite

  3. Open your browser and hopefully http://localhost:8080 is up

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