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What Graphite is and is not Graphite does two things: Store numeric time-series data Render graphs of this data on demand What Graphite does not do is collect data for you, however there are some  tools  out there that know how to send data to graphite. Even though it often requires a little code,  sending data  to Graphite is very simple. About the project Graphite is an enterprise-scale monitoring tool that runs well on cheap hardware. It was originally designed and written by  Chris Davis  at  Orbitz  in 2006 as side project that ultimately grew to be a foundational monitoring tool. In 2008, Orbitz allowed Graphite to be released under the open source Apache 2.0 license. Since then Chris has continued to work on Graphite and has deployed it at other companies including  Sears , where it serves as a pillar of the e-commerce monitoring system. Today many large  companies  use it. The architecture in a nutshell Grap...

What Graphite is and is not Graphite does two things: Store numeric time-series data Render graphs of this data on demand What Graphite does not do is collect data for you, however there are some  tools  out there that know how to send data to graphite. Even though it often requires a little code,  sending data  to Graphite is very simple. About the project Graphite is an enterprise-scale monitoring tool that runs well on cheap hardware. It was originally designed and written by  Chris Davis  at  Orbitz  in 2006 as side project that ultimately grew to be a foundational monitoring tool. In 2008, Orbitz allowed Graphite to be released under the open source Apache 2.0 license. Since then Chris has continued to work on Graphite and has deployed it at other companies including  Sears , where it serves as a pillar of the e-commerce monitoring system. Today many large  companies  use it. The architecture in a nutshell Graphite consists of 3 software components: carbon  - a  Twisted  dae...