Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable monitoring tool
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Re: Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable monitoring tool
#3> Chronoshere, a startup from two ex-Uber engineers, who helped create the open source M3 monitoring project to handle Uber-level scale, officially launched today with the goal of building a commercial company on top of the open source project.
I recall a thread here from 2-3 weeks ago about how “Uber-scale” wasn’t really Uber scale, and that most of these publicized “Uber-scale” projects ended up getting canned internally. Any insider insight to this M3 project?
Re: Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable monitoring tool
#4It just seems another clone of datadog
Re: Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable monitoring tool
#5> Chronoshere, a startup from two ex-Uber engineers, who helped create the open source M3 monitoring project to handle Uber-level scale, officially launched today with the goal of building a commercial company on top of the open source project. I recall a thread here from 2-3 weeks ago about how “Uber-scale” wasn’t really Uber scale, and that most of these publicized “Uber-scale” projects ended up getting canned inte…
Rob, co-founder and M3DB creator here, Uber collected billions of metric samples and we had tens of billions of metrics in M3 at Uber. Netflix for reference has not published any numbers higher than single digit billions of time series. The system has run in production for several years now at Uber now. That's my thoughts on the matter, hah.
Re: Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable monitoring tool
#6Hey Rob a co-founder and M3DB creator here, more than happy to answer any queries anyone might have. We're committed on continuing M3 being 100% apache 2 licensed, clustering and all other M3 features included. We're focused on providing reliable metrics hosting at scale.
Re: Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable monitoring tool
#7What I am not getting from my superficial knowledge is that why is Prometheus getting so much traction over elastic search. Elastic search claims to be as good for metrics and events. The ES database itself is more advanced with eventual consistency and search capability. It can do log analytics and it can be backend to tracing tool like Jaeger. Why so much investment in Prometheus. Disclaimer: I have not used Prometheus too much myself.
Re: Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable monitoring tool
#8Hey Rob a co-founder and M3DB creator here, more than happy to answer any queries anyone might have. We're committed on continuing M3 being 100% apache 2 licensed, clustering and all other M3 features included. We're focused on providing reliable metrics hosting at scale.
Congrats Rob! Great to see you guys weren’t just good indoor soccer players ;). The M3DB architecture doc was a good read
Re: Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable monitoring tool
#9What I am not getting from my superficial knowledge is that why is Prometheus getting so much traction over elastic search. Elastic search claims to be as good for metrics and events. The ES database itself is more advanced with eventual consistency and search capability. It can do log analytics and it can be backend to tracing tool like Jaeger. Why so much investment in Prometheus. Disclaimer: I have not used Promet…
I think you'd be very hard pressed to scale an Elasticsearch cluster to 10s of millions of writes/s without breaking the bank (and even if you had a pile of money to light on fire I don't think an Elasticsearch cluster with the number of nodes you'd require to support that would work very well).
Elasticsearch is a great piece of technology and its very versatile which makes it a great fit for a lot of problems (Uber, where M3 was developed, is a heavy consumer of Elasticsearch for logging purposes for example), but for the types of metrics workloads and scale that M3/Prometheus were designed for Elasticsearch simply wouldn't work.
Re: Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable monitoring tool
#10Hey Rob a co-founder and M3DB creator here, more than happy to answer any queries anyone might have. We're committed on continuing M3 being 100% apache 2 licensed, clustering and all other M3 features included. We're focused on providing reliable metrics hosting at scale.
Dunno how it compares to Prom + Thanos for example