Carbon
Carbon is one of the components of Graphite, and is responsible for receiving metrics over the network and writing them down to disk using a storage backend.
Carbon is one of three components within the Graphite project: The project is written primarily in Python, distributed under the Apache License 2.0 license, first published in 2012. It has gained significant community traction with 1,531 stars and 483 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: carbon, graphite, graphite-components, metrics, python.
Carbon
Overview
Carbon is one of three components within the Graphite project:
- Graphite-Web, a Django-based web application that renders graphs and dashboards
- The Carbon metric processing daemons
- The Whisper time-series database library

Carbon is responsible for receiving metrics over the network, caching them in memory for "hot queries" from the Graphite-Web application, and persisting them to disk using the Whisper time-series library.
Installation, Configuration and Usage
Please refer to the instructions at readthedocs.
License
Carbon is licensed under version 2.0 of the Apache License. See the LICENSE file for details.
Contributors
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