modify the configuration to match this example https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/293#issuecomment-37389463

config.toml.sample

@@ -23,11 +23,13 @@ port     = 8086    # binding is disabled if the port isn't set
 # ssl-port = 8084    # Ssl support is enabled if you set a port and cert
 # ssl-cert = /path/to/cert.pem
 
-[graphite]
-# optionally enable a graphite (carbon) compatible ingestion
-enabled = false
-port = 2003
-database = ""  # store graphite data in this database
+[input_plugins]
+
+  # Configure the graphite api
+  [input_plugins.graphite]
+  enabled = false
+  # port = 2003
+  # database = ""  # store graphite data in this database
 
 # Raft configuration
 [raft]

src/configuration/config.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Welcome to the InfluxDB configuration file.
 
-# If hostname (on the OS) doesn't return a name that can be resolved by the other 
-# systems in the cluster, you'll have to set the hostname to an IP or something 
+# If hostname (on the OS) doesn't return a name that can be resolved by the other
+# systems in the cluster, you'll have to set the hostname to an IP or something
 # that can be resovled here.
 # hostname = ""
 
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ assets = "./admin"
 ssl-port = 8087    # Ssl support is enabled if you set a port and cert
 ssl-cert = "../cert.pem"
 
+[input_plugins]
+
+  # Configure the graphite api
+  [input_plugins.graphite]
+  enabled = false
+  port = 2003
+  database = ""  # store graphite data in this database
+
 # Raft configuration
 [raft]
 # The raft port should be open between all servers in a cluster.
@@ -76,12 +84,12 @@ lru-cache-size = "200m"
 # files. max-open-files is per shard so this * that will be max.
 # max-open-shards = 0
 
-# These options specify how data is sharded across the cluster. There are two 
+# These options specify how data is sharded across the cluster. There are two
 # shard configurations that have the same knobs: short term and long term.
 # Any series that begins with a capital letter like Exceptions will be written
 # into the long term storage. Any series beginning with a lower case letter
 # like exceptions will be written into short term. The idea being that you
-# can write high precision data into short term and drop it after a couple 
+# can write high precision data into short term and drop it after a couple
 # of days. Meanwhile, continuous queries can run downsampling on the short term
 # data and write into the long term area.
 [sharding]
@@ -96,7 +104,7 @@ lru-cache-size = "200m"
   # over the network when doing a query.
   duration = "7d"
 
-  # split will determine how many shards to split each duration into. For example, 
+  # split will determine how many shards to split each duration into. For example,
   # if we created a shard for 2014-02-10 and split was set to 2. Then two shards
   # would be created that have the data for 2014-02-10. By default, data will
   # be split into those two shards deterministically by hashing the (database, serise)

src/configuration/configuration.go

@@ -93,10 +93,10 @@ type LoggingConfig struct {
 }
 
 type LevelDbConfiguration struct {
-	MaxOpenFiles  int  	`toml:"max-open-files"`
-	LruCacheSize  size 	`toml:"lru-cache-size"`
-	MaxOpenShards int  	`toml:"max-open-shards"`
-	PointBatchSize int 	`toml:"point-batch-size"`
+	MaxOpenFiles   int  `toml:"max-open-files"`
+	LruCacheSize   size `toml:"lru-cache-size"`
+	MaxOpenShards  int  `toml:"max-open-shards"`
+	PointBatchSize int  `toml:"point-batch-size"`
 }
 
 type ShardingDefinition struct {
@@ -160,19 +160,23 @@ type WalConfig struct {
 	RequestsPerLogFile    int    `toml:"requests-per-log-file"`
 }
 
+type InputPlugins struct {
+	Graphite GraphiteConfig `toml:"graphite"`
+}
+
 type TomlConfiguration struct {
-	Admin       AdminConfig
-	Api         ApiConfig
-	Graphite    GraphiteConfig
-	Raft        RaftConfig
-	Storage     StorageConfig
-	Cluster     ClusterConfig
-	Logging     LoggingConfig
-	LevelDb     LevelDbConfiguration
-	Hostname    string
-	BindAddress string             `toml:"bind-address"`
-	Sharding    ShardingDefinition `toml:"sharding"`
-	WalConfig   WalConfig          `toml:"wal"`
+	Admin        AdminConfig
+	HttpApi      ApiConfig    `toml:"api"`
+	InputPlugins InputPlugins `toml:"input_plugins"`
+	Raft         RaftConfig
+	Storage      StorageConfig
+	Cluster      ClusterConfig
+	Logging      LoggingConfig
+	LevelDb      LevelDbConfiguration
+	Hostname     string
+	BindAddress  string             `toml:"bind-address"`
+	Sharding     ShardingDefinition `toml:"sharding"`
+	WalConfig    WalConfig          `toml:"wal"`
 }
 
 type Configuration struct {
@@ -198,7 +202,7 @@ type Configuration struct {
 	LevelDbMaxOpenFiles       int
 	LevelDbLruCacheSize       int
 	LevelDbMaxOpenShards      int
-	LevelDbPointBatchSize	  int
+	LevelDbPointBatchSize     int
 	ShortTermShard            *ShardConfiguration
 	LongTermShard             *ShardConfiguration
 	ReplicationFactor         int
@@ -256,12 +260,12 @@ func parseTomlConfiguration(filename string) (*Configuration, error) {
 	config := &Configuration{
 		AdminHttpPort:             tomlConfiguration.Admin.Port,
 		AdminAssetsDir:            tomlConfiguration.Admin.Assets,
-		ApiHttpPort:               tomlConfiguration.Api.Port,
-		ApiHttpCertPath:           tomlConfiguration.Api.SslCertPath,
-		ApiHttpSslPort:            tomlConfiguration.Api.SslPort,
-		GraphiteEnabled:           tomlConfiguration.Graphite.Enabled,
-		GraphitePort:              tomlConfiguration.Graphite.Port,
-		GraphiteDatabase:          tomlConfiguration.Graphite.Database,
+		ApiHttpPort:               tomlConfiguration.HttpApi.Port,
+		ApiHttpCertPath:           tomlConfiguration.HttpApi.SslCertPath,
+		ApiHttpSslPort:            tomlConfiguration.HttpApi.SslPort,
+		GraphiteEnabled:           tomlConfiguration.InputPlugins.Graphite.Enabled,
+		GraphitePort:              tomlConfiguration.InputPlugins.Graphite.Port,
+		GraphiteDatabase:          tomlConfiguration.InputPlugins.Graphite.Database,
 		RaftServerPort:            tomlConfiguration.Raft.Port,
 		RaftDir:                   tomlConfiguration.Raft.Dir,
 		ProtobufPort:              tomlConfiguration.Cluster.ProtobufPort,

src/configuration/configuration_test.go

@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ func (self *LoadConfigurationSuite) TestConfig(c *C) {
 	c.Assert(config.ApiHttpCertPath, Equals, "../cert.pem")
 	c.Assert(config.ApiHttpPortString(), Equals, "")
 
+	c.Assert(config.GraphiteEnabled, Equals, false)
+	c.Assert(config.GraphitePort, Equals, 2003)
+	c.Assert(config.GraphiteDatabase, Equals, "")
+
 	c.Assert(config.RaftDir, Equals, "/tmp/influxdb/development/raft")
 	c.Assert(config.RaftServerPort, Equals, 8090)
 

src/integration/test_config1.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Welcome to the InfluxDB configuration file.
 
-# If hostname (on the OS) doesn't return a name that can be resolved by the other 
-# systems in the cluster, you'll have to set the hostname to an IP or something 
+# If hostname (on the OS) doesn't return a name that can be resolved by the other
+# systems in the cluster, you'll have to set the hostname to an IP or something
 # that can be resovled here.
 # hostname = ""
 
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ port = 60500
 ssl-port = 60503
 ssl-cert = "./cert.pem"
 
+[input_plugins]
+
+  # Configure the graphite api
+  [input_plugins.graphite]
+  enabled = true
+  port = 60513
+  database = "graphite_db"  # store graphite data in this database
+
 # Raft configuration
 [raft]
 # The raft port should be open between all servers in a cluster.
@@ -62,12 +70,12 @@ write-buffer-size = 1000
 # This setting determines how many responses can be buffered in memory per shard before data starts gettind dropped.
 query-shard-buffer-size = 500
 
-# These options specify how data is sharded across the cluster. There are two 
+# These options specify how data is sharded across the cluster. There are two
 # shard configurations that have the same knobs: short term and long term.
 # Any series that begins with a capital letter like Exceptions will be written
 # into the long term storage. Any series beginning with a lower case letter
 # like exceptions will be written into short term. The idea being that you
-# can write high precision data into short term and drop it after a couple 
+# can write high precision data into short term and drop it after a couple
 # of days. Meanwhile, continuous queries can run downsampling on the short term
 # data and write into the long term area.
 [sharding]
@@ -82,7 +90,7 @@ query-shard-buffer-size = 500
   # over the network when doing a query.
   duration = "1h"
 
-  # split will determine how many shards to split each duration into. For example, 
+  # split will determine how many shards to split each duration into. For example,
   # if we created a shard for 2014-02-10 and split was set to 2. Then two shards
   # would be created that have the data for 2014-02-10. By default, data will
   # be split into those two shards deterministically by hashing the (database, serise)

src/integration/test_config2.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Welcome to the InfluxDB configuration file.
 
-# If hostname (on the OS) doesn't return a name that can be resolved by the other 
-# systems in the cluster, you'll have to set the hostname to an IP or something 
+# If hostname (on the OS) doesn't return a name that can be resolved by the other
+# systems in the cluster, you'll have to set the hostname to an IP or something
 # that can be resovled here.
 # hostname = ""
 
@@ -60,12 +60,12 @@ write-buffer-size = 1000
 # This setting determines how many responses can be buffered in memory per shard before data starts gettind dropped.
 query-shard-buffer-size = 500
 
-# These options specify how data is sharded across the cluster. There are two 
+# These options specify how data is sharded across the cluster. There are two
 # shard configurations that have the same knobs: short term and long term.
 # Any series that begins with a capital letter like Exceptions will be written
 # into the long term storage. Any series beginning with a lower case letter
 # like exceptions will be written into short term. The idea being that you
-# can write high precision data into short term and drop it after a couple 
+# can write high precision data into short term and drop it after a couple
 # of days. Meanwhile, continuous queries can run downsampling on the short term
 # data and write into the long term area.
 [sharding]
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ query-shard-buffer-size = 500
   # over the network when doing a query.
   duration = "1h"
 
-  # split will determine how many shards to split each duration into. For example, 
+  # split will determine how many shards to split each duration into. For example,
   # if we created a shard for 2014-02-10 and split was set to 2. Then two shards
   # would be created that have the data for 2014-02-10. By default, data will
   # be split into those two shards deterministically by hashing the (database, serise)

src/integration/test_config3.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Welcome to the InfluxDB configuration file.
 
-# If hostname (on the OS) doesn't return a name that can be resolved by the other 
-# systems in the cluster, you'll have to set the hostname to an IP or something 
+# If hostname (on the OS) doesn't return a name that can be resolved by the other
+# systems in the cluster, you'll have to set the hostname to an IP or something
 # that can be resovled here.
 # hostname = ""
 
@@ -60,12 +60,12 @@ write-buffer-size = 1000
 # This setting determines how many responses can be buffered in memory per shard before data starts gettind dropped.
 query-shard-buffer-size = 500
 
-# These options specify how data is sharded across the cluster. There are two 
+# These options specify how data is sharded across the cluster. There are two
 # shard configurations that have the same knobs: short term and long term.
 # Any series that begins with a capital letter like Exceptions will be written
 # into the long term storage. Any series beginning with a lower case letter
 # like exceptions will be written into short term. The idea being that you
-# can write high precision data into short term and drop it after a couple 
+# can write high precision data into short term and drop it after a couple
 # of days. Meanwhile, continuous queries can run downsampling on the short term
 # data and write into the long term area.
 [sharding]
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ query-shard-buffer-size = 500
   # over the network when doing a query.
   duration = "1h"
 
-  # split will determine how many shards to split each duration into. For example, 
+  # split will determine how many shards to split each duration into. For example,
   # if we created a shard for 2014-02-10 and split was set to 2. Then two shards
   # would be created that have the data for 2014-02-10. By default, data will
   # be split into those two shards deterministically by hashing the (database, serise)