Micromegas Documentation¶
Welcome to Micromegas, a unified observability platform designed for high-performance telemetry collection and analytics.
What is Micromegas?¶
Micromegas is a comprehensive observability solution that provides:
- High-performance instrumentation with 20ns overhead per event
- Unified data collection for logs, metrics, spans, and traces
- Cost-efficient storage using object storage for raw data
- Powerful SQL analytics built on Apache DataFusion
- Real-time and historical analysis capabilities
Key Features¶
🚀 High Performance¶
- Ultra-low overhead telemetry collection (20ns per event)
- Supports up to 100k events/second per process
- Thread-local storage for minimal performance impact
💰 Cost Effective¶
- Raw data stored in cheap object storage (S3/GCS)
- Metadata in PostgreSQL for fast queries
- Pay only for what you query with on-demand ETL
🔍 Unified Observability¶
- Logs, metrics, traces, and spans in a single queryable format
- SQL interface compatible with existing analytics tools
- Grafana plugin for visualization and dashboards
🏗️ Modern Architecture¶
- Apache Arrow FlightSQL for efficient data transfer
- DataFusion-powered analytics engine
- Lakehouse architecture based on Parquet (columnar format optimized for analytics workloads)
Quick Start¶
Get started with Micromegas in just a few steps:
- Getting Started Guide - Set up your first Micromegas installation
- Query Guide - Learn how to query your observability data
- Architecture Overview - Understand the system design
Use Cases¶
Application Performance Monitoring¶
Monitor your applications with detailed performance metrics, error tracking, and distributed tracing.
Infrastructure Observability¶
Collect and analyze system metrics, logs, and performance data across your entire infrastructure.
Cost-Effective Analytics¶
Store massive amounts of telemetry data cost-effectively while maintaining fast query performance.
Development & Debugging¶
Use high-frequency instrumentation to debug performance issues and understand application behavior.
Getting Help¶
- Documentation: Browse the guides in this documentation
- GitHub Issues: Report bugs or request features
- Community: Join discussions and get support
License¶
Micromegas is open source software. See the LICENSE file for details.