is it just me or is graphite a HUGE pain in the ass to setup? is there a better option for these graphs. I really want to use statsd in a few projects but it looks like im going to have to set aside 8 hours to figure out how graphite works (and i am a django developer)
If you don't want to set up graphite and don't mind paying for a service, I've really enjoyed using Scout. (http://scoutapp.com) Cron jobs report to their app every 3 minutes and they have very nice ad-hoc graphs. They also have some indispensable configurable triggers that have saved us multiple times.