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October 2022

How to Simplify Your Graphite Metric Ingestion Pipeline with Histograms

Many organizations relying on Graphite will be leveraging telemetry provided through Statsd. And if you rely on Graphite in combination with StatsD telemetry, you’re likely suffering from aggregation bloat. In a typical Graphite ingestion pipeline, applications emit data points via UDP, which are then received by an aggregator such as StatsD. Most StatsD servers only offer static aggregations, which must be configured upfront.