graphite-project/graphite-web
Graphite Web
Graphite-web is a time-series monitoring platform that stores numeric metric data in fixed-size Whisper database files, ingests metrics over a plaintext TCP protocol, and renders on-demand graphs from stored data. It provides a tag-based metric query engine for flexible data organization and retrieval, and includes a custom dashboard builder that assembles multiple time-series graphs into a single web view for consolidated monitoring.
The platform distinguishes itself through its URL-driven metric retrieval system, which allows fetching rendered graph images or raw data by constructing HTTP requests with target, time range, and format parameters. It also features a function pipeline that applies mathematical transformations such as averaging, summing, or rate calculation to time-series data before rendering, and supports composite dashboard assembly that combines independent graphs into a single monitoring page.
Graphite-web handles the full lifecycle of time-series data, from ingestion and storage through organization, retrieval, and visualization. Its documentation covers installation, configuration, and usage of the URL-based query API, the plaintext ingestion protocol, and the dashboard assembly interface.
Features
- Time Series Data Storage - Persists timestamped numeric values to a fixed-size database file for efficient retrieval and compaction.
- Metrics Storage Backends - Persists timestamped numeric values to fixed-size Whisper database files for efficient retrieval.
- Time-Series Database Files - Stores time-series data in fixed-size Whisper database files for efficient retrieval and compaction.
- Time-Series Visualizers - Generates visual line or area charts from stored metric data points over a specified time range.
- Tag-Based Search - Retrieves time-series data using key-value tag filters for flexible data organization.
- Time Series Databases - Stores numeric metric values at fixed time intervals in a file-based database optimized for sequential reads.
- Data Dashboard Assemblers - Assembles multiple time-series graphs into a single web view for consolidated monitoring.
- Time Series Graph Renderers - Generates visual line or area charts from stored metric data points on demand.
- Time-Series Chart Generators - Generates on-demand PNG or SVG chart images from stored metric data via URL parameters.
- Metric Ingestion Protocols - Accepts numeric time-series data over TCP via a simple newline-delimited text format.
- Plaintext Metric Submission Protocols - Sends numeric time-series data over TCP using a simple newline-delimited text format.
- Metric Data URL Fetches - Fetches raw metric data or rendered graphs by constructing HTTP URLs with target and time range parameters.
- Metric Graph URL Fetches - Fetches rendered graph images or raw metric data by building URLs with target and time range parameters.
- Dashboard Builders - Assembles multiple time-series graphs into a single web view for at-a-glance monitoring.
- Metric Data Ingestion - Ingests numeric time-series data over a TCP socket using a simple newline-delimited text format.
- Plaintext TCP Metric Ingestion - Ingests metrics over a plaintext TCP socket using a simple newline-delimited format.
- Metric Tagging Utilities - Attaches key-value tags to metric names for flexible data organization and retrieval.
- Metric Time-Series Graphs - Generates visual representations of time-series metric data on demand with customization options.
- Time-Series Performance Metrics - Stores numeric metric data points indexed by time for efficient retrieval and graphing.
- URL-Based Metric Fetches - Provides URL-based retrieval of rendered graphs and raw metric data for time-series monitoring.
- Metric Stream Transformations - Modifies time-series data streams with averaging, summing, and rate calculation functions.
- Time-Series Graph Assemblers - Assembles multiple time-series graphs into a single monitoring dashboard page.
- Time-Series Function Pipelines - Applies mathematical transformations like averaging and rate calculation to time-series data before rendering.
- Time-Series Monitoring Dashboards - Assembles multiple time-series graphs onto a single page for consolidated monitoring.
- System Monitoring Dashboards - Assembles multiple time-series graphs into a customizable web view for system health monitoring.
- Databases & Data - Time-series database for storing and querying numerical performance metrics.
- Metrics Collection - Scalable server for graphing time-series data.
- Nagios Ecosystem - Web interface for visualizing and querying performance metrics.
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