M3What is M3?
A Prometheus and Graphite compatible metrics platform which includes a native distributed time series database, a highly dynamic and performant aggregation service, query engine and other supporting infrastructure.
M3 is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Prometheus IntegrationGraphite IntegrationScalable Clusters (up to billions of metrics)Reliably ReplicatedHighly CompressedHighly Performant (hundreds of millions of writes per second)Arbitrary Time PrecisionOut of order writesFully open source
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M3 Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to M3?
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.
