About Graphite

Graphite enables teams to track the performance of their websites, applications, business services, and networked servers.

Features

Graphite consists of three software components:

• Carbon – a high-performance service that listens for time-series data
• Whisper – a simple database library for storing time-series data
• Graphite-web – Graphite’s user interface & API for rendering graphs and dashboards

Metrics get fed into the stack via the Carbon service, which writes the data out to Whisper databases for long-term storage. Users interact with the Graphite web UI or API, which in turn queries Carbon and Whisper for the data needed to construct the requested graphs.