Graphite

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: prerelease_only

Adoption not part of the score

6109 stars · 1253 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system for numeric time-series data, composed of Graphite-Web (a Django web app for rendering graphs and dashboards), Carbon metric processing daemons, and the Whisper time-series database library. It ingests metrics via a pluggable API and renders charts on demand.

Use cases

• store and graph server metrics over time
• visualize time-series monitoring data with custom dashboards
• collect application performance metrics and plot them in real time
• self-hosted alternative to hosted metrics platforms
• query and render graphs from a time-series database via HTTP API

When to choose

• you need a proven, self-hosted metrics storage and graphing stack
• you want simple fixed-schema time-series storage with on-demand rendering
• you already emit statsd or plaintext metrics and need a backend

When to avoid

• you need high-cardinality labels and modern query languages like PromQL
• you want built-in alerting out of the box
• you prefer an all-in-one observability suite with logs and traces

Facets

service · maturity stable

monitoring data-visualization database http-server charts monitoring data-visualization analytics time-series python self-hosted time-series-database metrics django graphing observability whisper carbon devops web-server linux docker

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