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Adding "There be Dragons"
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awestendorf committed Jun 1, 2012
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condensed results are also available. Run ``script/example`` to see standard
output; ``watch -n 4 script/example`` is a useful tool as well.

Dragons!
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Kairos achieves its efficiency by using Redis' TTLs and data structures in
combination with a key naming scheme that generates consistent keys based on
any timestamp relative to epoch. However, just like
`RRDtool <http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/>`_, changing any attribute of the
timeseries means that new data will be stored differently than old data. For
this reason it's best to completely delete all data in an old time series
before creating or querying using a new configuration.


Installation
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