Carbon is one of the components of Graphite, and is responsible for receiving metrics over the network and writing them down to disk using a storage backend.
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Carbon
Overview
Carbon is one of three components within the Graphite project:
- Graphite-Web, a Django-based web application that renders graphs and dashboards
- The Carbon metric processing daemons
- The Whisper time-series database library
Carbon is responsible for receiving metrics over the network, caching them in memory for "hot queries" from the Graphite-Web application, and persisting them to disk using the Whisper time-series library.
Installation, Configuration and Usage
Please refer to the instructions at readthedocs.
License
Carbon is licensed under version 2.0 of the Apache License. See the LICENSE file for details.
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Carbon is one of the components of Graphite, and is responsible for receiving metrics over the network and writing them down to disk using a storage backend.
1,530
stars
865
commits
Python
primary language
May 8, 2026
updated
README
Carbon
Overview
Carbon is one of three components within the Graphite project:
- Graphite-Web, a Django-based web application that renders graphs and dashboards
- The Carbon metric processing daemons
- The Whisper time-series database library
Carbon is responsible for receiving metrics over the network, caching them in memory for "hot queries" from the Graphite-Web application, and persisting them to disk using the Whisper time-series library.
Installation, Configuration and Usage
Please refer to the instructions at readthedocs.
License
Carbon is licensed under version 2.0 of the Apache License. See the LICENSE file for details.
Similar repos
Contributors
(top 30 of 102)
Languages
Python
95.7%
Shell
4.3%