BACKGROUND

An important requirement to operating large scale computing system services, such as network security services, social media services, video services, and/or the like, is to accurately monitor (e.g., with a monitoring system) a health and a performance of an underlying system and quickly identify and diagnose problems as problems arise. A data structure (e.g., a database) may be used to store system data points generated over a period of time (sometimes referred to as “time series” data) and to provide quick query functionalities. Such a monitoring system may generate high volumes of time series data in large scale systems—for example, hundreds of reporting sources may generate millions of data points per second and over one trillion data points per day.

