carbonate 0.2.1

# Carbonate

> "Pop bottles." *-- Birdman*

[](https://travis-ci.org/jssjr/carbonate)

Graphite clusters are pretty cool. Here are some primitive tools to help you manage your graphite clusters.

All of the tools support two common arguments; the path to a config file, and the name of the cluster. Using these tools alongside a config file that describes your graphite clusters you can build up scripts to manage your metrics. Some of the tools could easily be replaced with one-liners in shell, but exist here for convenience and readability. The goal is to provide fast, predictable utilities that can easily be composed into more advanced tooling.

## The Config

Carbonate expects a configuration file that defines the clusters in your environment. The default config file is located at `/opt/graphite/conf/carbonate.conf` or can be provided on the command line. The default cluster is named 'main'.

```
[main]
DESTINATIONS = 192.168.9.13:2004:carbon01, 192.168.9.15:2004:carbon02, 192.168.6.20:2004:carbon03
REPLICATION_FACTOR = 2
SSH_USER = carbon
```

You should take care to match the list of destination IPs or hostnames to the nodes in your cluster. Though its worth noting that the ports and labels are currently not used by carbonate. Order is important because of how the consistent hash ring is created.

The replication factor should match the replication factor for the cluster.

Finally, you can choose to provide a SSH user that will be used when carbonate requires connecting to another node in the cluster to perform an operation. If this is not provided, then the current user executing the command will be chosen.

## The Tools

### carbon-hosts

```
usage: carbon-hosts [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE] [-C CLUSTER]

Return the addresses for all nodes in a cluster

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c CONFIG_FILE, --config-file CONFIG_FILE
Config file to use (default:
/opt/graphite/conf/carbonate.conf)
-C CLUSTER, --cluster CLUSTER
Cluster name (default: main)
```

### carbon-lookup

```
usage: carbon-lookup [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE] [-C CLUSTER] METRIC

Lookup where a metric lives in a carbon cluster

positional arguments:
METRIC Full metric name to search for

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c CONFIG_FILE, --config-file CONFIG_FILE
Config file to use (default:
/opt/graphite/conf/carbonate.conf)
-C CLUSTER, --cluster CLUSTER
Cluster name (default: main)
```

### carbon-list

```
usage: carbon-list [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE] [-C CLUSTER] [-d STORAGE_DIR]

List the metrics this carbon node contains

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c CONFIG_FILE, --config-file CONFIG_FILE
Config file to use (default:
/opt/graphite/conf/carbonate.conf)
-C CLUSTER, --cluster CLUSTER
Cluster name (default: main)
-d STORAGE_DIR, --storage-dir STORAGE_DIR
Storage dir (default: /opt/graphite/storage/whisper)
```

### carbon-sieve

```
usage: carbon-sieve [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE] [-C CLUSTER] [-f METRICS_FILE]
[-n NODE] [-I]

Given a list of metrics, output those that belong to a node

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c CONFIG_FILE, --config-file CONFIG_FILE
Config file to use (default:
/opt/graphite/conf/carbonate.conf)
-C CLUSTER, --cluster CLUSTER
Cluster name (default: main)
-f METRICS_FILE, --metrics-file METRICS_FILE
File containing metric names to filter, or '-' to read
from STDIN (default: -)
-n NODE, --node NODE Filter for metrics belonging to this node (default:
self)
-I, --invert Invert the sieve, match metrics that do NOT belong to
a node (default: False)
```

### carbon-sync

```
usage: carbon-sync [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE] [-C CLUSTER] [-f METRICS_FILE] -s
SOURCE_NODE [-d STORAGE_DIR] [-b BATCH_SIZE]

Sync local metrics using remote nodes in the cluster

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c CONFIG_FILE, --config-file CONFIG_FILE
Config file to use (default:
/opt/graphite/conf/carbonate.conf)
-C CLUSTER, --cluster CLUSTER
Cluster name (default: main)
-f METRICS_FILE, --metrics-file METRICS_FILE
File containing metric names to filter, or '-' to read
from STDIN (default: -)
-s SOURCE_NODE, --source-node SOURCE_NODE
Override the source for metrics data (default: None)
-d STORAGE_DIR, --storage-dir STORAGE_DIR
Storage dir (default: /opt/graphite/storage/whisper)
-b BATCH_SIZE, --batch-size BATCH_SIZE
Batch size for the rsync job (default: 1000)
```

### whisper-aggregate

```
usage: whisper-aggregate [-h] [-f METRICS_FILE] [-d STORAGE_DIR]

Set aggregation for whisper-backed metrics this carbon instance contains

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f METRICS_FILE, --metrics-file METRICS_FILE
File containing metric names and aggregation modes, or
'-' to read from STDIN (default: -)
-d STORAGE_DIR, --storage-dir STORAGE_DIR
Whisper storage directory (default:
/opt/graphite/storage/whisper)
```

### whisper-fill

```
usage: whisper-fill [-h] SRC DST

Backfill datapoints from one whisper file into another

positional arguments:
SRC Whisper source file
DST Whisper destination file

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
```

## Example usage

### Resync a node in a cluster

```
#!/bin/sh
#
# Resync a node from other nodes in the cluster
#

LOCAL_IP="$1"

for h in $(carbon-hosts) ; do
(
ssh $h -- carbon-list |
carbon-sieve -n $LOCAL_IP |
carbon-sync -s $h
) &
done
```

### Rebalance a cluster

```
#!/bin/sh
#
# Rebalance a cluster from one size to another. Remember to cleanup metrics
# that no longer belong when all nodes are rebalanced!
#

LOCAL_IP="$1"
OLD_CLUSTER="old"
NEW_CLUSTER="main"

for h in $(carbon-hosts -C "$OLD_CLUSTER") ; do
ssh $h -- carbon-list |
carbon-sieve -C "$NEW_CLUSTER" -n $LOCAL_IP |
carbon-sync -s $h
done
```

### List metrics that don't belong

```
#!/bin/sh
#
# List metrics from disk that don't belong
#

LOCAL_IP="$1"

carbon-list | carbon-sieve -I -n $LOCAL_IP
```

# License and warnings

These tools should be considered beta quality right now. Tests exist for most functionality, but there is still significant work to be done to make them bullet-proof. However, instead of sitting on this code, I'd rather release it and allow others to provide input and help guide the development. So, expect a few bugs and please help me fix them!

## How to contribute:

- Fork the repo
- Run script/bootstrap to setup your dev environment
- Create a feature branch
- Add some tests and code
- Run script/test to verify things build
- Send me a PR

The code is available under the MIT license.