The Question
DesignScalable Time-Series Metrics Infrastructure
Design a distributed metrics collection and aggregation system capable of handling 10 million data points per second. The system should support multi-dimensional tagging, real-time alerting queries, and long-term storage with automated downsampling, while ensuring high availability and low ingestion latency for client applications.
Kafka
Flink
TSDB
gRPC
Redis
Protobuf
March 8, 2026