M3

Distributed TSDB and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Metrics Aggregator, and more such as Graphite storage and query engine.

Table of Contents

• More Information
  • Community Meetings
  • Office Hours
• Install
  • Dependencies
• Usage
• Contributing

More Information

• Documentation
• Contributing
• Slack
• Forum (Google Group)

Community Meetings

M3 contributors and maintainers have regular meetings. Join our M3 meetup group to receive notifications on upcoming meetings: https://www.meetup.com/M3-Community/.

You can find recordings of past meetups here: https://vimeo.com/user/120001164/folder/2290331.

Office Hours

Members of the M3 team hold office hours on the third Thursday of every month from 11AM to 1PM Eastern Standard Time (EST). To join, make sure to sign up for a slot here: https://calendly.com/chronosphere-intro/m3-community-office-hours.

Install

Dependencies

The simplest and quickest way to try M3 is to use Docker, read the M3 quickstart section for other options.

This example uses jq to format the output of API calls. It is not essential for using M3DB.

Usage

The below is a simplified version of the M3 quickstart guide, and we suggest you read that for more details.

1. Start a Container

docker run -p 7201:7201 -p 7203:7203 --name m3db -v $(pwd)/m3db_data:/var/lib/m3db quay.io/m3db/m3dbnode:v1.0.0

2. Create a Placement and Namespace

#!/bin/bash
curl -X POST http://localhost:7201/api/v1/database/create -d '{
  "type": "local",
  "namespaceName": "default",
  "retentionTime": "12h"
}' | jq .

3. Ready a Namespace

curl -X POST http://localhost:7201/api/v1/services/m3db/namespace/ready -d '{
  "name": "default"
}' | jq .

4. Write Metrics

#!/bin/bash
curl -X POST http://localhost:7201/api/v1/json/write -d '{
  "tags": 
    {
      "__name__": "third_avenue",
      "city": "new_york",
      "checkout": "1"
    },
    "timestamp": '\"$(date "+%s")\"',
    "value": 3347.26
}'

5. Query Results

Linux

curl -X "POST" -G "http://localhost:7201/api/v1/query_range" \
  -d "query=third_avenue" \
  -d "start=$(date "+%s" -d "45 seconds ago")" \
  -d "end=$( date +%s )" \
  -d "step=5s" | jq .  

macOS/BSD

curl -X "POST" -G "http://localhost:7201/api/v1/query_range" \
  -d "query=third_avenue > 6000" \
  -d "start=$(date -v -45S "+%s")" \
  -d "end=$( date +%s )" \
  -d "step=5s" | jq .

Contributing

You can ask questions and give feedback in the following ways:

• Create a GitHub issue
• In the public M3 Slack
• In the M3 forum (Google Group)

M3 welcomes pull requests, read contributing guide to help you get setup for building and contributing to M3.

This project is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.