giraffe

In the years before Grafana the situation was not much better either. Graphite's render endpoint was decent and functional, but Grafana was the first that would let you easily make nice looking graphs and dashboard. I remember there was Giraffe[0] which came close and some other alternatives[1], most of them are dead now. I'm really looking forward to using the Library panels, a feature I always found lacking. I always found it a nice gesture by Raintank that they took in the Graphite project and are maintaining it to this day. [0] https://github.com/kenhub/giraffe [1] https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools.html#visuali...

That's an interesting idea. I'm the creator of Giraffe[0], a graphite front end using Rickshaw[1]. I was just toying with idea of trying out a branch / fork that uses this instead... Mostly out of curiosity, but I liked some features of it and was wondering how they compare to Rickshaw. If anyone wants to chip in, I'd love to hear from you. Generally looking for more core contributors to the project. [0] https://github.com/kenhub/giraffe [1] http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/

Looks nice. It's great to see more d3-based charting libraries. I'm personally using Rickshaw[0] to power the charting of Giraffe[1], a light weight front-end for Graphite. Sorry for the plug, but it's important to give some context. One obvious thing that felt like Epoch was missing was hover-over info. At least I couldn't spot it on the examples. [0]https://github.com/shutterstock/rickshaw [1]https://github.com/kenhub/giraffe

I would suggest a few things. There are 3 presentations / blog posts that are must reads for this sort of thing... Measure Anything, Measure Everything[1] Metrics Driven Engineering[2] Metrics, Metrics, Everywhere[3] The most common tool used for this is graphite[4]. Yelp also wrote their own which is nice called Firefly[5]. If you go with graphite like most big companies do, I would strongly suggest looking at graphene[6], gdash[7], giraffe[8], tasseo[9], or cubism[10] dashboard frontends. Graphite has a lot of "devops" community around it. This should be enough to get you started :) [1] http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-meas... [2] http://www.slideshare.net/mikebrittain/metricsdriven-enginee... [3] http://pivotallabs.com/139-metrics-metrics-everywhere/ [4] http://graphite.wikidot.com/ [5] https://github.com/Yelp/Fi