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'. Masteroppgave, University of Oslo, 2012. Graphite was developed by Orbitz Worldwide, Inc and released as open-source software in 2008. Graphite collects, stores, and displays

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data in real time. The tool has three main components: * Carbon - a Twisted

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that listens for time-series data * Whisper - a simple database library for storing time-series data (similar in design to RRD) * Graphite webapp - A Django webapp that renders graphs on-demand using

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library. Graphite is used in production by companies such as

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Grafana Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. A licensed Grafana Enterprise version with additional ...

, a Graphite dashboard replacement

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