Graphite

Overview & Role

Graphite is an open-source monitoring tool that stores and graphs numeric time-series data. It is composed of three software components: Carbon (a Twisted daemon that listens for time-series data), Whisper (a fixed-size database for storing time-series data), and Graphite-Web (a Django-based web application that renders graphs on demand). Graphite is widely used for system monitoring, application performance monitoring, and collecting metrics from various sources.

Domain Classification & Tags

Read Performance Profile

Throughput: Thousands to tens of thousands of data points per second (e.g., 5,000-20,000 pts/sec for simple queries)

Payload Size: Varies greatly based on query range and number of series (e.g., 100s of KB to several MB for complex dashboards)

Processing Latency: Tens to hundreds of milliseconds for typical queries (e.g., 50-500 ms), can be seconds for very complex or long-range queries

Write Performance Profile

Throughput: Tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of data points per second (e.g., 50,000-200,000 pts/sec per Carbon instance)

Payload Size: Small, typically individual metric updates or small batches (e.g., 100s of bytes to a few KB per batch)

Processing Latency: Low, typically single-digit milliseconds (e.g., 1-10 ms) for ingestion into Carbon