The first thing we need to do is prepare carbon and whisper for the data that will be arriving from collectd. By default, whisper will apply storage settings in the order they appear in the storage-schemas.conf file and has an existing default at the end. Thus, we must place our settings at the top of the file to ensure they're properly applied.
After naming the storage schema [collectd], we specify a pattern for carbon to recognize the collectd data. Any incoming data that fits this expression will use the retention periods that we've configured. Regarding these retention periods, we should be able to see detailed statistics for recent data and observe trends when viewing them over longer periods.
As such, we've told Graphite ...
