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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