Analyzing Time Series for Pinterest Observability

Analyzing Time Series for Pinterest Observability

摘要

Time series is a critical part of Observability at Pinterest, powering 60,000 alerts and 5,000 dashboards. A time series is an identifier with values where the values are associated with a timestamp. Given the widespread use and critical nature of time series, it’s important to give engineers the ability to adequately express what operations to perform on the time series in a readable, understandable, and efficient manner. In this post, we will cover the background of time series at Pinterest, the goals of designing an expressive time series language, and some examples of how we are using this language today.