Gnocchi

Spec sheet

Purpose

Gnocchi is an open-source time series database for storing and indexing time series data and resources at large scale.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Product

Gnocchi is an open-source time series database for storing and indexing time series data and resources at large scale.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Deployment

Gnocchi can be installed with pip, from source, using Docker, or using OpenShift.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Integrations

The documentation lists support for Grafana, Prometheus Remote Write, Nagios/Icinga, StatsD, Collectd, InfluxDB line protocol, and AMQP 1.0.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Support

The project documentation points users to its source code, GitHub bug tracker, and the #gnocchi IRC channel on OFTC.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Aggregation

Gnocchi computes metric aggregations when data is ingested and stores the results for fast retrieval.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Aggregation policies

Archive policies configure which aggregations to compute and how many aggregates to retain; supported methods include minimum, maximum, average, percentile, and standard deviation.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Architecture

Its API and metric processing services are stateless and can be scaled horizontally by running additional daemons or API endpoints.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Authentication

The API supports basic authentication, OpenStack Keystone authentication, and remote-user authentication.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Features

Its listed features include an HTTP REST interface, horizontal scalability, metric aggregation, measures batching, archiving policies, metric value search, structured resources, and resource history.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Grafana

Gnocchi supports Grafana.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Indexer

The documented indexer drivers are PostgreSQL, which is preferred, and MySQL version 5.6.4 or later.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Indexer backends

The supported indexer database drivers are PostgreSQL and MySQL, with PostgreSQL marked preferred.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Installation

Gnocchi can be installed using pip, from source, or using Docker; the documentation also describes an OpenShift installation option.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Multi-tenancy

Gnocchi lists multi-tenant support as a main feature.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Other integrations

The feature list includes Nagios/Icinga, StatsD, Collectd, InfluxDB line protocol ingestion, and AMQP 1.0 support.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Prometheus

Gnocchi supports Prometheus Remote Write.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Scalability

Gnocchi services are stateless and can be scaled horizontally by running additional daemons or API endpoints.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Storage

Documented storage options include file, Ceph, OpenStack Swift, Amazon S3, and Redis; Ceph is described as the recommended driver.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Storage backends

Incoming and aggregated metric storage can use File, Ceph, OpenStack Swift, Amazon S3, or Redis drivers.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Tenancy

Gnocchi supports multi-tenant use.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Upgrade limit

Upgrades are supported between major versions one step at a time or between minor versions; upgrading directly from version 2 to version 4 is unsupported.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Upgrade limitation

The documentation says upgrades are supported between major versions one step apart or between minor versions, and warns that backlog data is not migrated between versions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gnocchi.osci.io

Where Specifiction places it

• Time-Series Databases#21 of 367.7