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10/14/23, 11:39 AM Metric monitoring - by Alex Xu - ByteByteGo Newsletter

Metric monitoring
ALEX XU
JAN 12, 2022

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A well-designed metric monitoring and alerting system plays a key role in providing
clear visibility into the health of the infrastructure to ensure high availability and
reliability. The diagram below explains how it works at a high level.

Metrics source: This can be application servers, SQL databases, message queues, etc.

Metrics collector: It gathers metrics data and writes data into the time-series
database.

Time-series database: This stores metrics data as time series. It usually provides a
custom query interface for analyzing and summarizing a large amount of time-series
data. It maintains indexes on labels to facilitate the fast lookup of time-series data by
labels.

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Kafka: Kafka is used as a highly reliable and scalable distributed messaging platform.
It decouples the data collection and data processing services from each other.

Consumers: Consumers or streaming processing services such as Apache Storm,


Flink and Spark, process and push data to the time-series database.

Query service: The query service makes it easy to query and retrieve data from the
time-series database. This should be a very thin wrapper if we choose a good time-
series database. It could also be entirely replaced by the time-series database’s own
query interface.

Alerting system: This sends alert notifications to various alerting destinations.

Visualization system: This shows metrics in the form of various graphs/charts.

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