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Design a Metrics & Monitoring System (like Datadog/Prometheus)

Here is the detailed system design for a Metrics & Monitoring System.

1. Problem Definition and Scope

We are designing a large-scale metrics monitoring platform. This system enables engineers to collect numerical data from their infrastructure and applications, visualize it on dashboards, and receive alerts when things go wrong.

  • User Groups: DevOps Engineers, SREs, and Application Developers.

  • Main Actions: Ingesting metrics (writing), Querying for graphs (reading), and Alerting on thresholds.

  • Scope:

    • We will focus on Numerical Time Series Data (e

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