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- kerbana - a data management platform
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+ kerbana - a data storage and visualization platform
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kerbana is a platform that receives data from MQTT, saves it into RRDs
(Round Robin Databases) and generates and serves user-configured graphs.
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inside a datacenter (there are already many other versatile, if complex,
solutions for that usecase).
+It has been written by a backend developer for backend developers and
+bearded sysadmins, and thus its perceived ugliness is a design and
+usability choice.
+
The name comes from kerbaną_, cognate of γράφω_
.. _kerbaną: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kerban%C4%85