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Some details are at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Graphite#Service_operation

There are various clients you can use depending on your programming language.
Graphite should be used for data that 

It also worth reading https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Graphite#Further_reading


>>>> Graphite - You must specify the timestamp of the metric

Data is generally aggregated (give https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Graphite a read)
There is a daily.* metric prefix that will always remain at daily granularity (no aggregation)

Docs for the plaintext protocol:
https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/feeding-carbon.html#the-plaintext-protocol
echo "<metricname> <metricValue> <timestamp>" | nc -q0 <graphiteHost> <graphitePort>
For example, this should work:
echo "project1_extrametrics.my.metric.name 100 1542814299" | nc -q0 labmon1001.eqiad.wmnet 2003
An example in production (pointing at the production graphite host):
https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-wmde-scripts/blob/15f8f6fe60ac06eba523d238ae9fbc43f4cb10a7/lib/WikimediaGraphite.php#L10


>>>> Statsd - For current data (as it happens)

Spec for protocol:
https://github.com/b/statsd_spec
https://github.com/etsy/statsd#usage
An example in production (pointing at the production statsd host):
https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-wmde-scripts/blob/15f8f6fe60ac06eba523d238ae9fbc43f4cb10a7/lib/WikimediaStatsd.php#L10
Statsd will give you extended properties:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Graphite#Extended_properties


>>>> Grafana:
http://grafana-labs.wikimedia.org
Guide to making grafana graphite dashboards http://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/graphite/