New question #101729 on Graphite:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/101729

Hi - I don't use Graphite (yet), but it looks as if it can solve a big problem 
for me.  We currently use Opsview as our monitoring system, collecting about 
1.5 million data points per day.  Opsview has a data warehouse capability which 
I plugged into our existing graphing application (an internally developed 
tool).  However, we have latency problems that keep the database from being 
updated regularly (the code that the Opsview team wrote didn't help here 
either) because of table locks when insertions are happening.  

This data is also stored locally in RRD databases - it looks to me as if I 
could bypass the data warehouse thing and just store the data in Whisper 
databases located near the monitoring systems.  We have 7 monitoring systems in 
each of two data centers (it's the remote data center that causes the DB locks 
mentioned above).

We would either have 2 or 14 Whisper databases:  Opsview currently has 1 
"runtime" DB for each monitoring system, but the RRDs are stored locally on the 
Opsview system itself.  But I don't know if it would be better to use one 
Whisper DB for each monitoring system (approximately 100K data points daily) or 
one for each data center (approximately 750K data points daily).

So, the million-data-point question is this - can a Graphite front end 
successfully integrate data from multiple remote locations?  That is, can I 
look at data from multiple Whisper databases simultaneously, and has anyone 
ever implemented a system where one or more databases is located several 
hundred milliseconds away?  (Our data centers are in San Jose and Virginia.)  

And if that is possible, what is the maximum latency that is supported by this 
system?  For various reasons, it would be better for us to have monitoring 
systems in multiple remote locations, some that are far away, latency wise.

Thanks so much


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