Question #177377 on Graphite changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/177377
chrismd posted a new comment: It is useful to think of Graphite as a big time-series database that happens to have a UI (because that's pretty much all it is). If you were storing your datapoints in a mysql database, would you implement your alarming using select statements? For alarming logic that needs to look at history, compare many metrics, or to calculate trends that might be the way to go, but for simple threshold comparisons I would handle that before I even store the data in the database (or at least separately). An approach I've taken in the past is to aggregate all realtime monitoring data in one place (well, one sharded service) for the purposes of realtime analysis and then stream that aggregated data into Graphite. I also have used cronjob scripts that pull a larger dataset to do the aforementioned fancier examples. -- You received this question notification because you are a member of graphite-dev, which is an answer contact for Graphite. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
