Structures your metrics The Graphite tree model is hard to organize and query, it lacks information and can be inflexible when building graphs. GE uses a multi-dimensional metric database so that your metrics like servers.dfvimeodfs1.diskspace._srv_node_dfs10.byte_used become structured, self-describing, tagged metrics: { server=dfvimeodfs1 plugin=diskspace mountpoint=_srv_node_dfs10 unit=B type=u