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Gnocchi – Metric as a Service

Why Gnocchi?

Gnocchi has been created to fulfill the need of a time series database usable in the context of cloud computing: providing the ability to store large quantities of metrics and being easily scalable.

The Gnocchi project was started in 2014 as a spin-off of the OpenStack Ceilometer project to address the performance issues that Ceilometer encountered while using standard databases as a storage backends for metrics. More information are available on Julien's blog post on Gnocchi.

Use cases

Gnocchi is meant to be used to store time series and their associated resource metadata. It’s therefore useful for example as:

Storage brick for a billing system
Alarm-triggering or monitoring system
Statistical usage of data

Key Features

HTTP REST interface
Horizontal scalability
Metric aggregation
Measures batching support
Archiving policy
Metric value search
Structured resources
Resource history
Queryable resource indexer
Multi-tenant
Grafana support
Statsd protocol support

Documentation

architecture install configuration running client rest statsd grafana glossary releasenotes/index.rst

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