you don't measure • Always measure things that matter • Things measured are things managed • Metrics can be gamed • Metrics inform incenticves • Not everything that can be counted counts • Hard to measure doesn't mean it isn't worth measuring
users in your ops data? ‣ Who might come calling for it? ‣ How comfortable are you handing it over to Trump? ‣ Anyone hear about MongoDB? ‣ Can the store provide security?
API ‣ Rampant Open Source Adoption ‣ Scalable ‣ Compatibility ‣ Grafana, Statsd, Riemann, Bosun, Cabot, Seyren ‣ etc., etc., ‣ Suitable for Time Series Data ‣ Smallest Resolution: seconds
Language ‣ Zero Data Loss ‣ Compatibility ‣ Carbon, Grafana, Statsd, Riemann, Bosun ‣ Suitable for Time Series Data ‣ Smallest Resolution: milliseconds
Fixed, Regular Low Numeric Roll up InfluxDB Fixed (best) Any High Any Configurable OpenTSDB Any High Numeric n/a MySQL Any Keys: Low Values: High Structured* None PostgreSQL Any Keys: Low Values: High Structured* None ElasticSearch Any Keys: Low Values: High Any None
High High* Medium InfluxDB Low High Medium High OpenTSDB Low High Low High MySQL Medium Medium Medium* High* PostgreSQL High Medium Medium* High ElasticSearch Low High High Low