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It's a brand new newsletter from two community menbers who also happen to be authors of two O'Reilly monitoring books, the creator of Monitorama, and a long-time maintainer of the Graphite project. You don't have to believe me but we're going to do our best to release a top-notch collection of monitoring-related stories. We don't have an archive yet but we intend to.

You mean for open source time series database systems run entirely by volunteers in their spare (personal) time? I know, right? What jerks.

How is the article a rant? Or are you referring to the one of the comments above?

Excuse my french, but you're an idiot. I don't know if you simply didn't read the article, or are incapable of grasping the facts within.

It is configured to use SQLite by default, but it doesn't ship /embed/vendorize it. You're required to install the sqlite bindings yourself.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. Graphite uses SQLite by default. What is "Doc"?

Nobody ever said it /can't/ be done. I would never have argued against using a real RDBMS. But I've often been guilty of telling folks that SQLite was "good enough".

Installing PostgreSQL as you described is not "good enough". If you're going to bother with that, you need to understand the database enough to tune it properly, setup backups, test restores, etc. There are more considerations than simply installing it from apt-get and then forgetting about it.