Graphite
Scalable real-time graphing and time series storage
Graphite is a monitoring tool that stores numeric time series data and renders graphs of it on demand. It consists of Carbon for metric ingestion, Whisper for storage, and a Django-based web app for visualization.
Key features
- Time series storage with Whisper
- On-demand graph rendering
- Plain-text metric protocol
- Widely supported by collectors
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Simple metric protocol
- Mature and stable
Trade-offs
- Dated architecture
- Scaling requires extra components
Graphite replaces
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