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Twitter Open Sources Its Telemetry Tool Rezolus for Detection of Short-Lived Anomalies
Twitter Engineering open sourced their telemetry tool called Rezolus, which can detect anomalies in system performance metrics by sampling them at a higher rate.
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Scaling Graphite for Metrics Collection on AWS at Teads Engineering
Teads Engineering shared their story of scaling Graphite deployment from a single server, trying out various approaches like BigGraphite, and finally settling on the go-graphite stack and a custom HA architecture on AWS.
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RedisTimeSeries Module Adds Time Series Database Features to Redis
Redis Labs announced the general availability of a module RedisTimeSeries to provide time series storage and analysis functions.
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Timescale Cloud: Managed Time Series Database on Azure, Google Cloud and AWS
Timescale announced the availability of Timescale Cloud, a fully managed version of their time series database on Azure, GCP, and AWS. It provides time series analysis functions, the ability to scale up and down, visualization integration with tools like Grafana and Tableau, and data encryption.
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Grafana Adds Log Data Correlation to Time Series Metrics
The Grafana team announced an alpha version of Loki, their logging platform that ties in with other Grafana features like metrics query and visualization. Loki adds a new client agent promtail and serverside components for log metadata indexing and storage.
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Inside Stack Overflow’s Monitoring Systems
Nick Craver, architecture lead at Stack Exchange, wrote about their monitoring systems in a recent article. He discussed the philosophy and motivation behind their monitoring strategy and talked about their toolset - mainly Bosun, Grafana and Opserver.
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High Volume Space Exploration Time-Series Data Storage in PostgreSQL
The European Space Agency Science Data Center (ESDC) switched to PostgreSQL with the TimescaleDB extension for their data storage. ESDC’s diverse data includes structured, unstructured and time series metrics running to hundred of terabytes, and querying requirements across datasets with open source tools.
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Pinterest Switches from OpenTSDB to Their Own Time Series Database
The Pinterest engineering team has used OpenTSDB for storing and querying metrics since 2014. Recently, they developed and switched to their own time series database called Goku to mitigate various performance issues in OpenTSDB caused by a growth in the amount of metrics data.
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Prometheus Monitoring Platform "Graduates" from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
On August 9th, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced open source monitoring toolkit, Prometheus, has graduated from its incubation status. In order to achieve this rating, projects must demonstrate growth, documentation, organized governance processes, commitment to community sustainability and inclusivity.
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Plaid.com’s Monitoring System for 9600+ Integrations
Plaid.com has integrations with over 9600 financial institutions, and their monitoring challenges arise from the heterogeneous nature of these integrations and as well as their large number. They rebuilt their monitoring system on Kinesis, Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana to solve the challenges of scalability and low latency.
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Thanos - a Scalable Prometheus with Unlimited Storage
The Improbable engineering team open sourced Thanos, a set of components that adds high availability to Prometheus installations by cross-cluster federation, unlimited storage and global querying across clusters.
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Metrics Collection from Large Scale IoT Deployments at Vivint
Vivint's engineering team built their own metrics collection platform to collect and analyze metrics from their deployed devices. The key motivation behind writing their own system was to be able to store only aggregated data and focus on its analysis, which they achieve by their Rothko project.
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Metrics Collection and Monitoring at Robinhood Engineering
The Robinhood server operations team published a series of articles talking about their metrics collection, monitoring and alerting infrastructure. OpenTSDB, Grafana, Kafka and Riemann form the core of the stack, with Kafka acting as a proxy layer from which the data is pushed into Riemann for stream processing of the metrics and into OpenTSDB for storage.
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Basho Technologies Releases Riak TS NoSQL Database to Store and Analyze Time Series Data
Basho Technologies releases Riak TS distributed NoSQL database to store and analyze time series data. Basho team recently announced at AWS re:invent event, the availability of Riak TS which is optimized for reads and writes of time series data.