What is Metric Store?

Metric Store is multi-tenant aware (the auth proxy ensures that you only have access to metrics from your apps), easy to query (it is compatible with the PromQL), and has a powerful storage engine (the InfluxDB storage engine has built-in compression and a memory-efficient series index).

• Multi-tenant aware: Application developers have access to their own metrics

• Ubiquitous query language: Metric Store is compatible with PromQL and Prometheus API Query endpoints

• Powerful storage engine: The InfluxDB storage engine has built-in compression and a memory-efficient series index

Metric Store offers multi-node deployments, data replication, hinted handoff, and load balancing in a highly-available configuration.

What's in the Metric Store documentation?

The documentation for Metric Store provides information about how to install, configure, use, and monitor Metric Store.

Metric Store

Gives a detailed overview of Metric Store

Installing Metric Store

Explains how to install Metric Store

Using Metric Store

Explains how to configure and use Metric Store

Monitoring Metric Store

Explains how to monitor Metric Store

For information about new features, compatibility, component versions, and resolved and known issues, see the release notes for the latest release.

Using the Metric Store documentation

The Metric Store documentation in HTML reflects the latest update release of each Metric Store version. For example, v1.6 contains updates for all v1.6.x releases. All the documentation comes in PDF format, which you can access by selecting the Download PDF icon on any page in the HTML documentation.

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