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title: Graphite monitoring
description: Graphite is third-party software used for storing monitoring data, and rendering graphs of the data. For more information about installing and running Graphite, see the Graphite documentation.
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  enable-graphite: Enable the Graphite monitoring interface
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# Graphite monitoring

Graphite is third-party software used for storing monitoring data, and rendering graphs of the data. For more information about installing and running Graphite, see the [Graphite documentation](https://graphiteapp.org/#overview).

For monitoring metrics reference, see [Monitoring metrics](monitoring-metrics.html).

## Enable the Graphite monitoring interface

Before enabling Graphite access to monitoring metrics, make sure that you have enabled *monitoring* by going to Configure > Global Services > Monitoring and enabling Monitoring Status.

To let Graphite monitor metrics:

1. Go to Configure > Global Services > Monitoring.

2. On the Secondary Configurations tab, click Add a Secondary Configuration.

3. Select Graphite Reporter.

4. Specify the Name and Hostname of the Graphite instance to push the metrics data to.

5. Click Create.