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		buremba on June 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MetricsDB: TimeSeries Database for storing metrics... 5 billion events per second? That seems to be too much for monitoring data even at Twitter's scale. The article refers that they store the raw data and use rollup tables for aggregate queries, I wonder how much the ELT process costs in total.

dan-robertson on June 17, 2020 | [–]

Indeed, the article mentions 5b metrics per minute

redis_mlc on June 17, 2020 | [–]

> 5 billion events per second?

When you work for a large company, you have 2 problems:

1) Every has-been manager bikesheds over metrics retention

2) you can't say no. See #1.

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