How Graphite achieves this
Graphite tagged paths encode per-session, per-region GPU counters, drill from fleet-wide encoder saturation to a single user's stream in one click
Graphite's transformNull() and summarize() functions smooth noisy session metrics and produce per-minute session density dashboards
Threshold alerts on encoder utilisation fire before frame drops reach players, trigger auto-scaling or session rebalancing proactively
Cross-region Graphite dashboards using wildcardSeries paths give ops a unified view across all data centres simultaneously
MetricFire includes pre-built Grafana dashboards for cloud gaming platforms. Encoder saturation, frame latency, active session density, and per-region GPU utilisation panels, ready on day one with no dashboard configuration needed
Graphite metrics collected
gpu.{id}.encoder_util_pct
gpu.{id}.decoder_util_pct
gpu.{id}.utilization_pct
stream.active_sessions
stream.encode_latency_ms
stream.frame_drop_rate
stream.bitrate_mbps
Self-hosted pain solved
✕Per-session label cardinality explodes in legacy metric stores → Graphite paths handle thousands of concurrent session series effortlessly
✕No cross-region unified view without complex federation → Graphite single endpoint receives all regions
✕Encoder metrics often absent from self-hosted DCGM setups → MetricFire collects nvidia-smi encoder/decoder utilisation by default