In the previous blog posts, we've learned how to set up Carbon (caches) and Whisper, publish metrics and visualize the information and the behavior of the Carbon processes. In this blog post, I'll present another feature of Carbon - the aggregator.
Read MoreIn this blog post, I'll go through the process of stress testing a single carbon cache process and analyze the behavior as more and more metrics are published. I will also introduce the Stresser, a simple metric publishing tool.
Read MoreIn the previous blog post, we installed Carbon and Whisper - the backend components of Graphite. We then spun up a carbon-cache process to listen for incoming data points and store them using Whisper. In this blog post I describe in more detail how Whisper stores the data points in the filesystem and how you can control these details.
Read MoreGraphite is composed of multiple back-end and front-end components. The back-end components are used to store numeric time-series data. The front-end components are used to retrieve the metric data and optionally render graphs. In this blog post, I'll focus on the back-end components: Carbon and Whisper.
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