Question #263908 on Graphite changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/263908
Anatoliy Dobrosynets proposed the following answer: , or you can expand expand space for a particular group of metrics. For example, you've got metrics named like "WAREHOUSE.*" , which you know are old and rarely used/updated. You don't need to store them on SSD (expensive and limited capacity) - you can store them on a sperate slow-speed (cheap) drive, a pair of 3Tb 5400rpm in raid0. Just mount it into appropriate directory: ll /opt/graphite/storage/whisper/ total 52 drwxr-xr-x 13 graphite graphite 4096 Mar 17 12:41 ./ drwxr-xr-x 8 graphite graphite 4096 Mar 20 12:42 ../ drwxr-xr-x 4 graphite graphite 4096 Nov 24 22:17 WAREHOUSE/ drwxr-xr-x 8 graphite graphite 4096 Jan 16 06:47 statsd/ drwxr-xr-x 5 graphite graphite 4096 Feb 18 10:15 collectd/ drwxr-xr-x 4 graphite graphite 4096 Feb 26 11:05 carbon/ drwxr-xr-x 3 graphite graphite 4096 Feb 4 09:01 test/ drwxr-xr-x 4 graphite graphite 4096 Oct 19 09:44 jmxtrans/ df -hT /opt/graphite/storage/whisper/WAREHOUSE Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/graphite-warehouse ext4 782G 294G 449G 40% /opt/graphite/storage/WAREHOUSE -- 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 : graphite-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp