README.graphite

If you're not using graphite, then you're missing out.

http://graphite.wikidot.com/

Essentially, you can throw data at it and get graphs out.

If you want performance metrics from a Solaris system, then you want to
simply throw kstats into graphite and let it handle the graphing.

So, given that kar is a kstat archive, I've added the capability to
(simply) extract the statistics out of the kar archives and transform
it into the correct form for graphite to consume.

The new graphite command will output the data in the correct format. It
has a subset of the normal kar subcommands - so you can generate the
right output for iostat, mpstat, and the like.

The idea isn't that this is a complete solution. I'm expecting that you
may wish to process the data. In particular, you may wish to prefix
each line to match your graphite naming convention (adding the hostname
would be a good idea). And you may wish to trim the statistics.

If you just want *everything* raw, then try

graphite print :::

The simplest way to add a prefix is with sed:

graphite iostat | sed 's:^:myhost.:'