istatd

Real-time metrics gathering, recording, and graphing

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Real-time metrics gathering, recording, and graphing

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	3
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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jwatte·Nov 8, 2017

We ran into performance problems with graphite that github.com/imvu-open/istatd doesn't have. I'd much rather run the latter for production and application monitoring! It has, like, 10x the per machine performance of the others. (See also: COST)

In Top Ten Time Series DBs

jwatte·Jul 1, 2015

The trade off is decaying data. We store and query 300,000 counters with 10 days of 10 second resolution and successive buckets out to six years, on a single bare metal server (+ backup replica) using GitHub.com/imvu-open/istatd but this is not right for everyone.

In Thoughts on Time-series Databases

JulianMorrison·Nov 6, 2013

https://github.com/imvu-open/istatd/wiki is my favouite. C++, compile to a binary and then it can send updates in a tree of agents to a master node, and maintain a replica of the master, and it does graphs too, everything you need in one.

In InfluxDB – Open-source distributed time-series, events, and metrics database

jwatte·Nov 5, 2013

You didn't look at istatd? It does 150000 counters at three different retention intervals every ten seconds, with average, total, standard deviation, mom and max for all metrics. We looked at other options (including open tsdb and graphite) before building this. Https://github.com/imvu-open/istatd

In InfluxDB – Open-source distributed time-series, events, and metrics database

jwatte·Oct 31, 2013

Server side graphs didn't work out for all our monitoring use, so we don't use graphite. You should make a version that works with istatd :-) https://github.com/imvu-open/istatd

In Open-Sourcing Rearview: Real-Time Monitoring With Graphite