14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Graphite first-hand: 2 endorse it, 3 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“Maybe try to use Graphite as additional query API for influx. In our case we use Graphite-api with a Influx plugin”
endorse · production · aequitas · 2017-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Really like graphite. It was the main dashboard before we moved to Datadog. The reason, we moved because the hosted graphite black out”
mixed · production · stevesun21 · 2016-07-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My biggest problem with Graphite was that it managed to grind an expensive large RAID array into the ground with a relatively small number of metrics.”
regret · production · vidarh · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Seriously, Graphite is less reliable than the systems we use it to monitor. Furthermore, there hasn't been a release in about 2 years”
regret · production · noelwelsh · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Graphite was thoroughly trashing an expensive disk array and still regularly getting too slow to us”
regret · production · vidarh · 2014-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“statsd is pretty simple to deploy and graphite wasn't too difficult either.”
endorse · production · hoop · 2012-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Graphite has a lot of warts, but it's really powerful once you get used to it.”
mixed · production · jashmenn · 2012-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Decision: self-hosted graphite.”
neutral · production · dominikz · 2026-05-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Graphite at work, and I don't dislike it or anything”
neutral · production · tombert · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“trying to introduce per-unix-user systemd services (e.g. `graphite` user for running Graphite)”
neutral · production · sevagh · 2024-01-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“pull stats from DB servers for remote clients and dump them into graphite”
neutral · production · sacomo · 2018-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“though we use graphite for system metrics mainly”
neutral · production · dvirsky · 2014-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we got by just fine with it in production at Heroku and GitHub, at heavy volume, running in a single server on SQLite.”
neutral · production · obfuscurity_ · 2013-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Graphite (a Django app) on Phusion Passenger on our internal servers.”
neutral · production · FooBarWidget · 2013-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?