Appendix A. Setting Up OpenTSDB
OpenTSDB is a distributed timeseries database designed to accommodate the needs of modern dynamic large-scale environments. It was built with resilience in mind and has been proven to handle extremely high data loads. OpenTSDB embodies many concepts described in this book. It implements plotting functionality and has the ability to interface with alerting solutions, such as Nagios. If you’re looking to build a robust and scalable monitoring platform, OpenTSDB is the right place to start.
The Software
OpenTSDB was initially developed at StumbleUpon by Benoît Sigoure to address the issues of cost-effective, long-term metric retention and durability at an extremely large scale. OpenTSDB’s most distinctive feature is its decentralized nature. The implementation rests on top of HBase, a fully distributed, nonrelational database that offers a high degree of fault-tolerance. OpenTSDB uses that to provide resilience at the same time not compromising on performance and feature richness.
The code is distributed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1.
Architecture
Figure A-1 illustrates OpenTSDB in its operation. At the core of the solution lies the Timeseries Daemon (TSD), which assists the clients in storing and retrieving metrics from the HBase cluster. The two core components are loosely coupled and can be scaled independently.
Multiple instances of TSDs communicate between three actors: input sources, clients, and the datastore.
Input sources ...
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