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+# StatsHouse
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+StatsHouse is a highly-available, scalable, multi-tenant monitoring system.
+
+## Why would I use StatsHouse?
+
+StatsHouse was built from the ground-up with 2 main goals in mind:
+interactive usage at massive scale (low latency, high resolution data
+and low response time) and built-in protection from overload (multi-tenant
+resource budgeting and automatic sampling in case of overuse).
+
+StatsHouse is a mature project. StatsHouse is being used in production
+as a main monitoring system of [vk.com](https://vk.com). As of November 2022,
+main StatsHouse cluster is receiving 350 million metrics per second
+from 15000 servers and stores 4 years of data.
+
+## UI screenshots
+
+![Home page](./docs/media/home.webp "Home page")
+
+![Dashboard](./docs/media/dash.webp "Dashboard")
+
+## Features
+
+- High availability and fault tolerance
+- Massive scalability
+- Multi-tenant resource budgeting with automatic sampling
+- Low latency, high resolution data
+- Interactive built-in UI
+- Long-term storage with automatic downsampling
+- Compatibility with Grafana and Prometheus/PromQL (alpha)
+
+## Documentation
+
+- [Quick start guide](./docs/quickstart.md)
+- [Internals](./docs/internals.ru.md) (in Russian)
+
+## Clients
+
+- [Go](https://github.com/VKCOM/statshouse-go)
+- [PHP](https://github.com/VKCOM/statshouse-php)
+- [C++](https://github.com/VKCOM/statshouse-cpp)
+- [nginx](https://github.com/VKCOM/nginx-statshouse-module)
+
+## License
+
+StatsHouse is licensed under the [Mozilla Public License Version 2.0](./LICENSE).