Graphite has become one of the most powerful monitoring tools available today due to its ease of use rapid graph prototyping abilities & a friendly rendering API With this practical guide system administrators & engineers will learn how to use this open source tool to track operational data you need to monitor your systems as well as application-level metrics for profiling your services Author Jason Dixon member of the Graphite project provides a thorough introduction of Graphite from the basics to the skills & tools you need for troubleshooting & scaling out its software components If you want to learn more about monitoring systems services or applications this is the book you need Get an introduction to monitoring including important concepts & terminology Examine the features & functionality of key Graphite components including Carbon & Whisper Learn the typical user workflow necessary to create a basic line chart Build complex charts with chained functions & multiple axes that interact directly with the rendering API Understand how to use the native Graphite dashboard as well as the more popular third-party dashboards Master the art of scaling & troubleshooting high-performance or highly available Graphite clusters