A slightly off-topic question, since you seem to know what you're talking about: What are people using these days for collecting and display devops-level metric

A slightly off-topic question, since you seem to know what you're talking about: What are people using these days for collecting and display devops-level metrics, if it's not Graphite? Are your links relevant here? Last I looked at Graphite I balked at the data store design (very I/O heavy) and the awful front ends (very limited graphing and reporting capabilities). But I haven't discovered a good alternative that has traciton. Diamond seems like the thing to use for collecting metrics (instead of collectd), though. Edit: Grafana looks good, actually.