graphite-cli

makes requests to graphite's /render API

``sh
$ npm install -g graphite-cli
`

`
Usage: graphite [options]

-t, --target String target
-f, --from String interval - default: -1day
-s, --stdin read target from stdin
-o, --format String output format (json, csv, raw)
-p, --print-target print target
-i, --image-url print graph image URL
-b, --browser open as image in browser
-c, --curl send graph image data to stdout
-h, --help displays help
`

setup

graphite-cli reads URL to graphite from GRAPHITE_URL environment variable

`sh
$ export GRAPHITE_URL=http://graphite
`

examples

#### get data for a random walk as JSON for last 5 minutes

`sh
$ graphite --from=-5min --target="randomWalk('randomWalk')" -o csv
randomWalk,2015-03-05 15:32:03,0
randomWalk,2015-03-05 15:33:03,0.21089740446196048
randomWalk,2015-03-05 15:34:03,0.30473267268105897
randomWalk,2015-03-05 15:35:03,0.5150866652261553
randomWalk,2015-03-05 15:36:03,0.2311229472001599
`

#### read target from clipboard and open the graph in browser

`sh
$ pbpaste | graphite -s -b
`

#### print graph image url of target piped to stdin

`sh
$ echo "randomWalk('randomWalk')" | graphite -s -i
http://graphite/render?from=-1day&target=randomWalk('randomWalk')
`

#### get status codes for last hour summarized into 10min intervals

`sh
$ graphite --target="aliasByNode(summarize(counts.web.status_code.*), '10m', 'sum', false), 6)" \
--from=-1h | tr '|' , | cut -d',' -f1,5- | sed 's/\.0//g' | column -t -s, | sort -k1
200 176 213 207 227 292 320 0
201 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
202 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
204 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
302 0 2 0 0 0 2 0
304 0 0 0 0 2 4 0
400 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
401 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
404 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
409 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
429 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
``