Datadog built Monocle, a custom time-series database in Rust, to handle billions of metrics per second. The system uses Kafka for data distribution and replication, separates metadata storage from time-series data, and employs a thread-per-core architecture with LSM-tree storage. Key optimizations include arena allocators,
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