# vimeo/graph-explorer

A graphite dashboard powered by structured metrics

Repository: https://github.com/vimeo/graph-explorer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/graph-explorer
Homepage: http://vimeo.github.io/graph-explorer/
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2015-04-09T22:02:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5034, "days_push": 4164, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1051, forks 91 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:23.157272+00:00)

## What it is
Graph-explorer is a web-based dashboard for Graphite metrics that stores metrics as structured, tagged key-value pairs in a database, enabling dynamic graph composition via its GEQL query language. It includes dashboards, unit conversion, online aggregation, event annotation, and a threshold-based alerting system.

## Use cases
- build ad-hoc dashboards over graphite metrics
- query metrics by tags instead of hardcoded metric names
- group and aggregate time series on the fly
- convert metric units automatically in graphs
- annotate graphs with events
- set threshold alerts on metric queries

## When to choose
- you use Graphite and want flexible, tag-based metric exploration
- you need dynamic graphs without hardcoding metric names
- you want unit-aware time series visualization

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software (last release 2015, Python 2 only)
- you use modern metrics backends like Prometheus instead of Graphite
- you want a turnkey monitoring stack rather than a dashboard layer

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: data-visualization, monitoring, search-engine, alerting, charts
- domain: monitoring, data-visualization, analytics
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: graphite, metrics-2.0, dashboard, geql, timeseries, elasticsearch, devops, web-server

## Member repositories
- vimeo/graph-explorer (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:23.157272+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:00:14.611174+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vimeo/graph-explorer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:23.157272+00:00, sha c56d620a7276)
  - homepage: http://vimeo.github.io/graph-explorer/ (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:40.762202+00:00, sha 0e6bbebf7d66)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.