M3

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Scalable Prometheus-compatible metrics engine for enterprise observability

About M3

M3 is a high-performance, horizontally scalable metrics engine designed to provide centralized visibility into business operations, microservices, and infrastructure for cloud-native enterprises. Originally developed at Uber, M3 supports Prometheus remote storage with full PromQL compatibility, enabling organizations to efficiently monitor billions of time series data points. Its architecture ensures reliability through quorum writes and reads with triple data replication, while optimized compression algorithms deliver significant storage savings.

Targeted at large enterprises with demanding observability needs, M3 excels in environments requiring high ingestion and query throughput, such as those at Uber, Walmart, and LinkedIn. It supports multiple ingestion formats including Prometheus, StatsD, and Carbon, and integrates with popular visualization tools like Grafana. By providing a cost-effective, scalable, and performant solution, M3 helps enterprises maintain comprehensive monitoring at global scale without compromising on data consistency or query speed.

Key Capabilities

✓Prometheus-compatible metrics ingestion and querying
✓Horizontal scalability for billions of time series
✓High ingestion throughput exceeding one billion datapoints per second
✓Optimized compression achieving 11x storage reduction
✓Reliable data replication with quorum consistency

Integrations

PrometheusStatsDGrafana

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