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M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus

August 7, 2018 / Global
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Figure 1: The M3 Coordinator sidecar is deployed alongside Prometheus near local regional M3DB clusters that are replicated across availability zones, running etcd in the same binary.
Figure 2: The M3 ingestion and storage pipeline begins by aggregating metrics at defined policies and then storing and indexing them on M3DB cluster storage nodes.
Figure 3: Queries return metrics from all regions by proxying requests through the remote regions’ coordinators which read their local regional storage and proxy results back.

Posted by Rob Skillington

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