Percona Live 2017: Hawkular Metrics, An Overview

April 27, 2017
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Dave Avery
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Hawkular MetricsThe place is still frantic here at Percona Live 2017 as everybody tries to squeeze in a few more talks before the end of the day. One such talk was given by Red Hat’s Stefan Negrea on Hawkular Metrics.

Hawkular Metrics is a scalable, long-term, high-performance storage engine for metric data. The session was an overview of the project that includes the history of the project, an overview of the Hawkular ecosystem, technical details of the project, developer features and APIs and third party integrations.

Hawkular Metrics is backed by Cassandra for scalability. Hawkular Metrics is used and exposed by Hawkular Services.The API uses JSON to communicate with clients.

Users of Hawkular Metrics include:

  • IoT enthusiasts who need to collect metrics, and possibly trigger alerts

  • Operators who are looking for a solution to store metrics from statsD, collectd, syslog
  • Developers of solutions who need long-term time series database storage
  • Users of ManageIQ who are looking for Middleware management
  • Users of Kubernetes/Heapster who want to store Docker container metrics in a long-term time series database storage, thanks to the Heapster sink for Hawkular.

Stefan was kind enough to speak with me after the talk. Check it out below:

There are more talks today. Check out Thursday’s schedule here. Don’t forget to attend the Closing Remarks and prize give away at 4:00 pm.

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