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About M3

M3 originated at Uber to provide visibility into business operations, microservices and infrastructure.

Products

  • M3DB: A purpose-built time series database component of M3.
  • M3Coordinator: A component that works with M3Aggregator to ingest and aggregate metrics.
  • M3Aggregator: A component that aggregates ingested metrics in a customizable way.

Used for

  • Monitoring microservices and infrastructure
  • Ingesting and aggregating streams of metrics with dynamic configuration
  • Querying millions to billions of metrics using an inverted index
  • Visualizing, detecting, and alerting on machine learning infrastructure

Who it is for

  • Cloud Native companies scaling Prometheus-based monitoring systems
  • Startups and large companies

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Quick Facts

www.m3db.io
CategoryObservability & Monitoring
SubcategoryInfrastructure Monitoring
PricingOpen source

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