gottwall 0.4.2

Welcome to GottWall's documentation!
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GottWall is a scalable realtime metrics collecting and aggregation platform and service.
This package, at its core, is just a simple aggregation server and
beautiful customizable web dashboard for visualizing metrics with charts.

It will handle authenticating clients (such as stati)
and all of the logic behind storage and aggregation.


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Features
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- Beautiful customizable dashboard for visualizing metrics with charts.
- Data aggregation
- Data collection
- Embedded charts (`HTML <http://demo.gottwall.com/api/embedded/hash.html>`_, iframe, `javascript <http://demo.gottwall.com/api/mbedded/hash.js>`_, `JSON <http://demo.gottwall.com/api/embedded/hash.json>`_)

Demo
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You can try free demo charts on `demo.gottwall.com <http://demo.gottwall.com>`_.
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Screenshots
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Dashboard
^^^^^^^^^

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Custom graph type and title
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Simple chart charing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Installation
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To use gottwall use `pip` or `easy_install`::

pip install gottwall

or ::

easy_install gottwall

or you can use official `gottwall chef cookbook <https://github.com/GottWall/gottwall-cookbook>`_
for automatic setup on system.


Configuration
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See gottwall/examples/config.py


Usage
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GottWall have 2 independent parts. Web interface application and aggregator application (application that process data).

Starting web dashboard
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To run web application execute command::

gottwall --config="examples/config.py" server start


Starting aggregator
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To run aggregator application execute command::

gottwall --config="examples/config.py" aggregator start


Available storages
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Storages that store metrics:

- Memory storage (for tests only)
- Redis storage (fast for counters increment, but time complexity O(N) for data range select)
- TODO: mongodb
- TODO: SQL


Available transport backends
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The following transport available:

- Redis transport backend
- TCP/IP transport backend
- TODO: UDP transport backend
- HTTP transport backend


.. _available-clients:

Available clients
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The following clients are officially recognized as production-ready, and support the current GottWall protocol:

- stati-http-python (`stati-http-python <http://github.com/GottWall/stati-http-python`_) with json http transport.
- stati-redis-python (`stati-redis-python <http://github.com/GottWall/stati-redis-python>`_) with redis transport.


CONTRIBUTE
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We need you help.

#. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug.
There is a Contributor Friendly tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet.
#. Fork `the repository`_ on Github to start making your changes to the **develop** branch (or branch off of it).
#. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
#. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published.

.. _`the repository`: https://github.com/GottWall/GottWall/


ETC
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* Graphs widgets rendered with `rickshaw <http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/>`_ (HTML5 + SVG and `d3.js <http://d3js.org/>`_) library.