It’s no secret that I love Graphite. My co-workers think it’s a bit ridiculous how much data I feed into our graphite server. I may be a bit excessive, but I have a monitor in my office which allows me to see at a glance every little detail about our network in real time – server health, pageviews, Google Pagespeed Insight scores, etc. I can’t even describe how wonderful a tool it is.
I wanted an easy way to display graphite graphs on the WordPress dashboard. So I rolled out a plugin over the weekend. I give you WordPress Graphite Graphs – I admit I [somewhat] got the idea from WPVIP’s “page generation time” graph in the VIP dashboard, but I’m sure they won’t mind. This plugin allows me (or you) to rapidly deploy monitoring graphs across many different sites without a lot of hassle and NO custom code for each site. Just plug in the URL of your graphite server, the metrics you want to display, and viola – Graphy delight! While I was at it, I went ahead and added support for graphs on the front-end in the sidebar that can be hidden from non-users if needed. Why not, right?
Shoot me a tweet if you’re interested in additional features or get in on the action and fork it on github.
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