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Has anyone been adventurous enough to use the 0.9 release candidates or previous versions to collect and analyze application & server metrics with statsd, Grafana, etc.? How has it worked for you? Any recommendations?

I've been waiting for 0.9 to hit, so I guess I'll find out myself soon enough.

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I've been running infxludb 0.9 + heka 0.9.x + grafana 2.x stack in a production environment for over a month. Mostly successful, although I find the grafana tooling for building queries to be a bit weak. I think there are improvements coming soon to address this, though. Overall, influx performance seems to be pretty good although we aren't ingesting enough data to say anything really concrete. We also make use of continuous queries to aggregate our time series, which of course makes large-interval queries more efficient.

We've been running Influxdb 0.9 (pre-rc32), Heka 0.9 and Grafana 2 as well. It's been going OK, though we really needed to add stats collecting and batch write in Heka layer to not spike the CPU on writes to Influxdb.

The data write API changes so late in the 0.9 release candidates phase was an unexpected surprise. Also, needing to throw away all data written using pre-rc32 versions sucks. No way to migrate db versions? Boo!

My server ran out of disk and now I can't 'list series' in InfluxDB and my graphs are empty. Need to investigate...

(0.8.8 + statsd + grafana)

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