1. visage-app(5)
  2. visage-app(5)

NAME

visage-app - Run a standalone instance of Visage

SYNOPSIS

visage-app start|genapache

DESCRIPTION

Visage is a web interface for viewing collectd statistics.

It also provides a JSON interface onto collectd's RRD data, giving you an easy way to mash up the data.

OPTIONS

start

Start visage on 127.0.0.1:9292

genapache

Generate a vhost suitable for Passenger + Apache. Will load Visage from the installed gem.

help

Display this man page.

ENVIRONMENT

CONFIG_PATH

Where to look for configuration files. Added to the beginning of config load path, so files found in here take precedence over shipped config files.

RRDDIR

Where to look for collectd's RRDs. Must correspond with collectd's rrdtool plugin's DataDir value.

COLLECTDSOCK

Where to look for collectd's Unix socket. Used by Visage to issue FLUSH command to collectd to present more up to date statistics.

RRDCACHEDSOCK

Where to look for rrdcached's Unix socket. Used by Visage to issue FLUSH command to rrdcached to present more up to date statistics.

VISAGE_DATA_BACKEND

Specify which data backend Visage should use to retrieve statistics. An up to date list of backends can be found by looking in lib/visage-app/data. At the time of writing, the shipped backends are RRD and Mock.

AUTHOR

Lindsay Holmwood lindsay@holmwood.id.au

MIT Licensed.

  1. July 2013
  2. visage-app(5)