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Rahul
RahulMetricFlow
What is MetricFlow?
MetricFlow is a metrics layer that sits on top of your data warehouse. Define “metrics”—like active users, revenue, and net dollar retention—in code. Then use the same logic across your entire organization.
MetricFlow is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Metrics as CodePowerful semantic models for your metricsPull metrics into downstream applicationsCreate a consistent data model across your stackSimplify code governance with auto-generated SQL
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MetricFlow Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to MetricFlow?
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
