Graphite (software) explained

Graphite is a free open-source software (FOSS) tool that monitors and graphs numeric time-series data such as the performance of computer systems.^[2] Graphite was developed by Orbitz Worldwide, Inc and released as open-source software in 2008.^[3]

Graphite collects, stores, and displays time-series data in real time.

The tool has three main components:

• Carbon - a Twisted daemon that listens for time-series data
• Whisper - a simple database library for storing time-series data (similar in design to RRD)^[2]
• Graphite webapp - A Django webapp that renders graphs on-demand using Cairo library.

Graphite is used in production by companies such as Ford Motor Company, Booking.com, GitHub, Etsy, The Washington Post and Electronic Arts.^[4]

See also

• Grafana

External links

• • Latest documentation
• Screenshots, FAQ and outdated documentation
• Tools That Work With Graphite, mentioning and describing e.g. Grafana, a Graphite dashboard replacement

Notes and References

1. Web site: Orbitz paves the way to enterprise open-source contributions. Matt. Asay. June 27, 2008. CNET.
2. Joshi, Nishes. Interoperability in monitoring and reporting systems. Masteroppgave, University of Oslo, 2012.
3. Web site: Orbitz paves the way to enterprise open-source contributions . Asay . Matt . CNET . 2008-06-27 . 2016-06-29 .
4. Book: Dixon . Jason . Monitoring with Graphite . O'Reilly Media . 2014 . 978-1491916438 .