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Note that Synthesize has already been updated to support Graphite 1.0.0. https://github.com/obfuscurity/synthesize/releases/tag/v3.0....

It's a brand new newsletter from two community menbers who also happen to be authors of two O'Reilly monitoring books, the creator of Monitorama, and a long-time maintainer of the …

You mean for open source time series database systems run entirely by volunteers in their spare (personal) time? I know, right? What jerks.

How is the article a rant? Or are you referring to the one of the comments above?

Excuse my french, but you're an idiot. I don't know if you simply didn't read the article, or are incapable of grasping the facts within.

It is configured to use SQLite by default, but it doesn't ship /embed/vendorize it. You're required to install the sqlite bindings yourself.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. Graphite uses SQLite by default. What is "Doc"?

Nobody ever said it /can't/ be done. I would never have argued against using a real RDBMS. But I've often been guilty of telling folks that SQLite was "good enough". Installing Pos…

Except that while Graphite is a "real web application", it's generally internal-facing only. As such, I never looked at it as needing a true "production-ready" RDBMS with real conc…

I completely agree. I was rather disappointed to find that it didn't.

That's not at all a dumb comment. As I alluded to in the post, I think it's important that we understand how these systems determine what is - or isn't - an abnormality or fault. U…

Yes, it certainly /can/ scale. In fact, a properly modularized monitoring solution /should/ be more capable of scaling if it was designed with this in mind. This is certainly the a…

@josephruscio - I was >this< close to going back and giving a quick mention to Librato Metrics. You guys definitely "get" what I'm talking about. I like that you provide well-defin…