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Key terms
The table below lists the key terms and acronyms that are used in this document.
| Terms & acronyms | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Collector | The StackLight Collector is a smart monitoring agent running on every node. It collects and processes the metrics of your OpenStack environment. |
| InfluxDB | InfluxDB is a time-series, metrics, and analytics open-source database (MIT license). It is written in Go and has no external dependencies. InfluxDB is targeted at use cases for DevOps, metrics, sensor data, and real-time analytics. |
| Grafana | Grafana is a general-purpose dashboard and graph composer. It is focused on providing rich ways to visualize metrics time-series mainly through graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It has rich support for Graphite, InfluxDB, and OpenTSDB and also supports other data sources through plugins. Grafana is most commonly used for infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring, and metric analytics. |