What is M3DB?

M3 is a globally scalable, highly available, open-source distributed metrics platform that includes a native, distributed time series database (M3DB), an aggregation service, a query engine, and other supporting infrastructure. It provides the capability to manage multi-dimensional time series data scalably and durably, and to act as the backbone for unlimited metrics capabilities. M3 is fully open source, with a top-notch developer community and development process.