Quick Start

Quick Start

Once you have a TSD up and running (after following the Installation guide) you can follow the steps below to get some data into OpenTSDB. After you have some data stored, pull up the GUI and try generating some graphs.

Create Your First Metrics

Metrics need to be registered before you can start storing data points for them. This helps to avoid ingesting unwanted data and catch typos. You can enable auto-metric creation via configuration. To register one or more metrics, call the mkmetric CLI:

./tsdb mkmetric mysql.bytes_received mysql.bytes_sent

This will create 2 metrics: mysql.bytes_received and mysql.bytes_sent