OpenTSDB

About OpenTSDB

A scalable, distributed time series database built on HBase. OpenTSDB stores, indexes, and serves metrics collected from various sources at massive scale, making it ideal for monitoring infrastructure and IoT data collection.

Key Features

• 1Distributed time-series database built on HBase for billions of data points
• 2Tag-based data model allows arbitrary dimensions on each metric
• 3HTTP API for reading and writing metrics from any language
• 4Rollup and pre-aggregation plugins reduce query latency for long time ranges
• 5Grafana data source plugin for dashboard visualization

How Python Data Engineers Use OpenTSDB

Python data engineers use the `opentsdb-py` client or direct HTTP API calls to ingest metrics from infrastructure monitoring agents into OpenTSDB. Pipeline performance metrics — rows processed, error rates, latency — are pushed to OpenTSDB as tagged time-series, enabling Grafana dashboards and alerting rules based on metric thresholds.