So after listening to too many "DevOps" podcasts, I decided to get off my ass and do some things. One of those things was wanting to play around with graphite. Graphite is a django-based front-end for the whisper/carbon monitoring data storage system. I noticed that all three had found their way in to the FreeBSD ports tree. You can find them at web/py-graphite-web, databases/py-carbon, and databases/py-whisper.

I've collected a bit of historical data with collectd and had been using the php-based Collectd Graph Panel as the front-end. This had familiarized me with collectd's system ...