I've tried to configure/install/setup StatsD etc in the past but hit so many problems with dependencies, undocumented software needing to be installed, etc.
Any tutorial or something to get stats being tracked and graphed beautifully would be awesome.
Graphite consists of these three parts:
carbon - a daemon that listens for time-series data. whisper - a simple database library for storing time-series data. webapp - a (Django) webapp that renders graphs on demand.
And statsd is its own daemon.
That means 3 daemons needs to run to make stat aggregating.
I am very wary about introducing new software into our stack, if I doesn't understand it. Bad configured software could cause problems down the road.
Last time I tried out a recipe that installed Redis, it didn't version lock the Redis-server which meant that the daemon couldn't start because they had deprecated some configs.
The recent DDOS DNS attacks was possible because people have setup wrongly configured DNS servers.