This document discusses metrics monitoring systems. It provides an overview of the Graphite monitoring system architecture, including the carbon-cache and carbon-relay components. It then evaluates various open source alternatives for handling high volumes of metrics data, finding that a combination of go-carbon and carbon-c-relay can process over 1.4 million requests per second. The document also discusses tagging metrics with metadata and time series databases that support tags.
21. Retention and size
• 10s:30d,1m:120d,10m:365d → 4 564 864 bytes
• 240 864 metrics in 1 TB
• aggregation: average, sum, min, max, and last.
• can be assign per metric