Integrate graphite metrics with bosun

Question

I am running Docker container for bosun. I want to integrate the graphite metrics with bosun.
What are the configuration changes that need to be done for this?

Answer 1

@kyle-brandt's answer is okay and I gave it an upvote but it and the Bosun docs don't really explain enough of how to use a Graphite that you don't host, i.e. hostedgraphite.com. Using the docs and some trial and error I figured things out. So here it goes:

1. Make a Graphite API key: http://docs.hostedgraphite.com/advanced/access-keys.html (you should whitelist IP addresses). Let's say you got https://www.hostedgraphite.com/deadbeef/431-831/graphite/.

2. Create data.conf with:

   tsdbHost = localhost:4242 stateFile = /data/bosun.state graphiteHost = https://www.hostedgraphite.com/deadbeef/431-831/graphite/render

3. Start the Docker container: docker run -d \ -p 80:8070 \ --name=bosun \ -v `pwd`/bosun.conf:/data/bosun.conf \ stackexchange/bosun Note that I didn't do the 4242 port mapping because I'm getting my data just from hostedgraphite.com and I mapped 8070 to 80 so that I don't have to specify the port when going to Bosun in the browser.
4. Adding expressions: The docs say to use GraphiteQuery but that didn't work for me, graphite worked instead. For example: graphite("my.long.metric.name.for.some.method", "10m", "", ""). There is also an example graphite alert in the examples part of the documentation (thanks @kyle-brandt).