Design a Metrics Monitoring System System Design Interview

1. Problem Statement

2. Architecture Discussion Map

Use this as one discussion aid, not a single correct answer. Your design should follow from the requirements, scale, and trade-offs you establish.

graph LR
    A["Design a Metrics Monitoring System"]
    A --> F1["Write-heavy ingestion Millions of writes/sec"]
    A --> F2["Data retention and downsampling Rollups"]
    A --> F3["Querying time-series data efficiently"]
    A --> F4["Pull vs Push models"]

3. Key Focus Areas

• 1
  Write-heavy ingestion (Millions of writes/sec)
• 2
  Data retention and downsampling (Rollups)
• 3
  Querying time-series data efficiently
• 4
  Pull vs Push models