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What's interesting about some of the more modern monitoring systems like M3 and Prometheus is that they have a reverse index on top of the column store entries to very quickly find the relevant metrics for a multi-dimensional query.

In fact M3 uses FST index segments, a common Apache Lucene segment which is used by ElasticSearch, for secondary index metric name and dimension full-text search capabilities: https://github.com/m3db/m3/tree/master/src/m3ninx/index/segm...

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