Graphite 0.9.14 - the Phoenix Release

2015-10-27 23:55:39 by jdixon

If you're like most Graphite users, you're probably wondering if and when there will ever be another release for the project. There hasn't been much public activity over the last couple of years, at least outside of GitHub. A lack of corporate sponsorship, in terms of dedicated developer and maintainer hours, means that the project receives attention as volunteers' schedules permit. Speaking solely for myself, I prioritize Graphite development somewhere behind family, work, the Monitorama conference, writing the Graphite book, and "other recreational activities".

Despite the lack of a regular release cycle, Graphite is as popular as ever. The Grafana project is going gangbusters, with Graphite as its priority time-series backend. A variety of new open source projects have cropped up offering high-performance alternatives to the original specification implementations (graphite-web and carbon). New software projects, both commercial and open source, continue to target Graphite API compatibility because of its ubiquity and ease of use. Heck, even those other competing time-series engines are forced to support Graphite-friendly interfaces. In some cases they even outperform their own proprietary ingress methods.

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