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[Jason Dixon <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think your question is better off asked among the Sensu community.
Graphite will obviously support any non-subsecond finite resolution you
want. I would certainly favor an architecture where the metrics
collected by Sensu are stored in Graphite, so your trending data matches
the data that Sensu would've alerted on.

Scaling Graphite is orthogonal to your primary question, imho. Graphite
cares only about the number of metrics you throw at it (and how quickly
it can write to disk).

Jason

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 01:40:22PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I am thinking to build upon a classic, full blown, vanilla Sensu
> mesh (Sensu client as data collector, RabbitMQ as message broker,
> Sensu server for decision making, Redis for storage), and simply
> plug into it a Graphite instance, via something like WizardVan
> maybe.
> 
> The alternative would be a parallel Graphite deployment straight out
> of the documentation, using collectd as an agent. But I don't want
> to collect the same data twice: one for metrics (Graphite), another
> for alerts (Sensu).
> 
> What are the potential issues with plugging Graphite into a complete
> Sensu mesh? Do I lose time granularity? Do I lose anything else?
> Compatibility issues?
> 
> How about performance and scalability? I'm sure for a small setup
> any solution would be fine, but if I need to scale up to many
> instances then which architecture would scale better?
> 
> (All of the above in the context of probably using something like
> Logstash in the future, so interoperability of all components is
> important.)
> 
> I guess I'm talking about a pretty open-ended scenario here, so any
> observations are welcome.
> 
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> Florin Andrei
> http://florin.myip.org/
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