Graphite

Graphite is an open-source monitoring and visualization tool for time-series data. Developed in 2006 and released as open-source in 2008, Graphite allows users to store numeric time-series data and generate graphs based on this information. The core components of Graphite include Carbon, a daemon that listens for and manages incoming time-series data; Whisper, a database library for storing time-series data; and a web application for rendering graphs on-demand. Graphite is designed to handle high volumes of data and provide real-time visualization capabilities. It supports data ingestion through various protocols and offers a flexible query language for data analysis. Graphite's architecture allows it to scale to store billions of distinct metrics, making it suitable for monitoring large-scale infrastructure, applications, and systems. The software is implemented primarily in Python and JavaScript.

Key customers and partnerships

Graphite has been adopted by several notable companies for their monitoring needs. Etsy, Salesforce, Reddit, GitHub, and Booking.com are among the organizations that have utilized Graphite in their infrastructure monitoring. Additionally, Instagram, Canonical, Oracle, Uber, and Vimeo have employed Graphite to handle operation-critical time-series data such as application metrics, database metrics, and ecommerce monitoring. Graphite's flexibility and compatibility with various data collectors and visualization tools like Grafana have contributed to its widespread adoption in the tech industry.