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## Installation - Ubuntu
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-This guides will require you to install 4 components.
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+To begin with we are going to install the 3 main components that define our metric stack. Later in the guide we will
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+install StatsD, but that is optional.
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- Carbon is the graphite ingestion deamon responsible for
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receiving metrics and storing them.
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- Graphite-api is light weight version of graphite-web with only the HTTP api and is
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responsible for executing metric queries.
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-- StatsD is a metrics aggregation daemon that makes it easy for apps on
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-many machines to send measurements like timings and counters and have them aggregated or percentiles calculated.
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- Grafana as the frontend to visualize metrics and the tool to help you build metric
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queries that will make the most out of your collected metrics.
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There are hundreds of tools and instrumentation frameworks that can send metrics using this protocol.
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-## Installing StatsD
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+### Installing StatsD
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+StatsD is a metrics aggregation daemon that makes it easy for apps on many machines to send measurements like timings and counters and have them aggregated or percentiles calculated.
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-StatsD is To make it easier for applications to send metrics and timings
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-### Inserting metrics
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+### Sending metrics to StatsD
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