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Jul 8, 2026
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System Design Practice: Metrics Monitoring System
5 min; updated Jul 9, 2026
Functional Requirements
FR1: Platform can ingest metrics (CPU, memory, latency, custom counters) from services.
FR2: Users can query and visualize metrics on dashboards with filters, aggregations, and time ranges.
FR3: Users can define alert rules with thresholds over time windows, e.g., “alert if P99 latency > 500ms for 5min”.
FR4: Users can receive notifications when alerts fire, e.g., email, Slack.
Scale: 500K servers, 5M metrics per second, ~1GB/s raw ingestion.
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