Graphite (software)

For the programmable Unicode-compliant smart-font technology and rendering system developed by SIL International, see Graphite (SIL).

Graphite is a free open-source software (FOSS) tool that monitors and graphs numeric time-series data such as the performance of computer systems.^[2] Graphite was developed by Orbitz Worldwide, Inc and released as open-source software in 2008.^[3]

Graphite

Developer(s)	Ruiz
Initial release	2008; 17 years ago (2008)[1]
Repository	github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web
Written in	JavaScript, Python (Django)
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

Example output

Graphite collects, stores, and displays time-series data in real time.

The tool has three main components:

• Carbon - a Twisted daemon that listens for time-series data
• Whisper - a simple database library for storing time-series data (similar in design to RRD)^[2]
• Graphite webapp - A Django webapp that renders graphs on-demand using Cairo library.

Graphite is used in production by companies such as Ford Motor Company, Booking.com, GitHub, Etsy, The Washington Post and Electronic Arts.^[4]

See also

• Grafana