Graphite is a monitoring and graphing platform for collecting, storing and visualising numerical time-series data. It provides a way to record measurements over time and turn them into graphs that help administrators understand system behaviour.
The platform is commonly used for infrastructure and application monitoring, where measurements such as processor utilisation, request rates and network throughput need to be retained and examined.
Graphite consists of three principal components. Carbon receives metrics, Whisper stores the resulting time-series data, and Graphite-Web provides the interface for creating graphs and retrieving information. These components form a monitoring system that can be integrated with external metric collectors.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Receive numerical time-series measurements over supported network interfaces.
- Process and buffer incoming metrics using Carbon services.
- Store time-series data using the Whisper database format.
- Configure retention policies with different resolutions for recent and historical measurements.
- Generate graphs from stored metrics using Graphite-Web.
- Apply mathematical functions to transform and combine metric series.
- Calculate moving averages, derivatives and other derived measurements.
- Combine multiple data series into a single visualisation.
- Configure graph appearance, labels, scales and time ranges.
- Use wildcard expressions and metric naming conventions to select related measurements.
- Expose graphing and data retrieval functionality through HTTP interfaces.
- Export metric information in formats including JSON, CSV and XML.
- Create dashboards for examining related system measurements.
- Integrate with external monitoring agents and metric collection systems.
Website: graphiteapp.org
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Developer: Graphite Project and contributors
License: Apache License 2.0
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