In 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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