Infra & metrics
M3
open source / community (ex-Uber)
Uber-scale distributed TSDB + Prometheus remote storage built for extreme cardinality and ingest.
- Category
- Infra & metrics
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Heavy
- Maturity
- Legacy
- Popularity
- ≈4.9k GitHub stars; slowing
The catch
One of the hardest to operate in the category (own clustering, placement, aggregation tier), and momentum cooled as backers pushed the commercial Chronosphere SaaS.
Monitors
MetricsServersK8s
Built for
Enterprise