What 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 Tools category of a tech stack.
M3 is an open source tool with 4.6K GitHub stars and 443 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to M3's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses M3?
Companies
Developers
10 developers on StackShare have stated that they use M3.
M3 Integrations
M3's Features
- Prometheus Integration
- Graphite Integration
- Scalable Clusters (up to billions of metrics)
- Reliably Replicated
- Highly Compressed
- Highly Performant (hundreds of millions of writes per second)
- Arbitrary Time Precision
- Out of order writes
- Fully open source
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.
Nagios
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
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