This is part of a series of contributed articles leading up to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon on Oct. 24-28. Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen the popularity of Kubernetes and microservices boom, generating more data that is often never used.
This is where time series databases (TSDB) come in, as they are optimized for timestamped or time series data. Time series data are simply measurements or events that are tracked, monitored, downsampled and aggregated over time.
Understanding the important performance indicators that meet your business’ data scaling requirements will help you find the best solution.