Timbala is in a very early stage of development and is not yet production-ready. Please do not use it yet for any data that you care about.
There are several known issues that prevent any serious use of Timbala at this stage; please see the MVP milestone for details.
Timbala is a distributed, fault-tolerant time-series database intended to provide durable long-term storage for multi-dimensional metrics.
It is designed to integrate easily with Prometheus, supports PromQL and is API-compatible with Prometheus, but can be used standalone.
Data stored in Timbala can be visualised using Grafana by configuring a Prometheus data source pointing to Timbala.
- one server binary
- no external dependencies
- all nodes have the same role
- all nodes can serve read and write requests
- no single points of failure
- data is replicated and sharded across multiple nodes
- planned features for read repair and active anti-entropy
- high write throughput and availability