Heroic
A scalable time series database built on Bigtable, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch for high-volume metrics.
What is Heroic?
Heroic is a scalable time series database designed for high-volume metrics storage and querying. It solves the problem of managing large-scale monitoring data by providing a distributed architecture that can leverage backends like Bigtable, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch. Originally built by Spotify, it handles infrastructure telemetry and observability workloads efficiently.
Engineers and DevOps teams managing large-scale monitoring systems, particularly those needing a scalable, self-hosted time series database alternative to commercial solutions.
Developers choose Heroic for its proven scalability at Spotify, modular backend support allowing integration with existing infrastructure, and its open-source nature enabling full control over deployment and customization.
Overview
The Heroic Time Series Database
Use Cases
Best For
- Storing and querying high-volume infrastructure metrics
- Building a self-hosted monitoring stack for large-scale services
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