Graphite

Graphite does two things

1. Store numeric time-series data

2. Render graphs of this data on demand

Architecture

Graphite consists of three software components:

1. carbon

   • a high-performance service that listens for time-series data
   • a Twisted daemon that listens for time-series data

2. whisper

   • a simple database library for storing time-series data (similar in design to RRD)

3. graphite-web

   • Graphite's user interface & API for rendering graphs and dashboards
   • A Django webapp that renders graphs on-demand using Cairo

Metrics get fed into the stack via theCarbonservice, which writes the data out toWhisperdatabases for long-term storage. Users interact with theGraphite webUI or API, which in turn queries Carbon and Whisper for the data needed to construct the requested graphs.

Graphite's web platform offers a variety of output styles and formats, including raw images, CSV, XML, and JSON, allowing anyone to easily embed custom graphs in other web pages or dashboards.

Points

https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html

https://grafana.com/oss/metrictank

Metrictank is a multi-tenant timeseries platform for Graphite

References

https://graphiteapp.org

https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest