Need help installing graphite on raspberry pi

Grafana Graphite
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I’m trying to install grafana and graphite on raspberry pi so I can have a local server to collect and visualize data. Using the grafana cloud is nice but not my ultimate goal.

I found installing grafana easy but graphite not so much. I’m not a web server person or linux admin and the blogs I found seem to assume that I must be those people. I need some help here.

If I understand correctly, grafana is the software that can visualize data it pulls from data storages such as graphite. So it is useless without a data storage such as graphite.

I have an account with grafana cloud service and have written my script to log data to graphite and constructed some dashboards in grafana. So I understand the work flow on the cloud and I am a programmer. What I don’t understand is replicating this experience on a local install.

Here is a blog post I am following:

I didn’t follow the apache deployment. Instead I tried the nginx path here:

https://graphite-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deployment.html

I was able to deploy but after saving a conf file and nginx failed to start.

● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2021-09-26 09:00:33 PDT; 20s ago
Docs: man:nginx(8)
Process: 14596 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 26 09:00:33 SN1-SBNV-TEST systemd[1]: Starting A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server…
Sep 26 09:00:33 SN1-SBNV-TEST nginx[14596]: nginx: [emerg] a duplicate default server for 0.0.0.0:80 in /etc/nginx/sites-enabl
Sep 26 09:00:33 SN1-SBNV-TEST nginx[14596]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
Sep 26 09:00:33 SN1-SBNV-TEST systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 26 09:00:33 SN1-SBNV-TEST systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Sep 26 09:00:33 SN1-SBNV-TEST systemd[1]: Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.

Is it saying that some other processes is serving port 80 instead of nginx? It started fine right after install. Only got error after I saved config file per graphite doc.

Any help is appreciated!

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I solved this problem. There was a default enabled server listening to port 80. I deleted that file and nginx is running.

But I can’t get graphite service started. It complained 203/EXEC error. I really wish developers are willing to consider that not every user is the same type of people you are thus must know how to do ABC and XYZ. If anyone knowledgeable with grafana and graphite can make a video of installing them on raspberry pi, that would help many. You may think, no that’s too easy and why would anyone want to waste time making that video. But that’s exactly why you should make one. Because not everyone is as good as you.