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Circllhist -- A Log-Linear Histogram Data Structure for IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Data Structures and Algorithms 2020-01-22 v1

Abstract

The circllhist histogram is a fast and memory efficient data structure for summarizing large numbers of latency measurements. It is particularly suited for applications in IT infrastructure monitoring, and provides nano-second data insertion, full mergeability, accurate approximation of quantiles with a-priori bounds on the relative error. Open-source implementations are available for C/lua/python/Go/Java/JavaScript.

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@article{arxiv.2001.06561,
  title  = {Circllhist -- A Log-Linear Histogram Data Structure for IT Infrastructure Monitoring},
  author = {Heinrich Hartmann and Theo Schlossnagle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06561},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages, 7 figures

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