# Where is an advisory for small setup for monitoring collectd/influxdb/grafana

**URL:** https://community.influxdata.com/t/where-is-an-advisory-for-small-setup-for-monitoring-collectd-influxdb-grafana/6199
**Category:** Systems
**Created:** [August 11, 2018, 9:58am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/where-is-an-advisory-for-small-setup-for-monitoring-collectd-influxdb-grafana/6199 "2018-08-11T09:58:50Z")
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### Author: ![f1outsourcing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a183cd/32.png) [@f1outsourcing](https://community.influxdata.com/u/f1outsourcing)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2018, 9:58am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/where-is-an-advisory-for-small-setup-for-monitoring-collectd-influxdb-grafana/6199/1 "2018-08-11T09:58:50Z")

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I would liket to use influxdb in a small setup. Data does not need to be long available (in ram). The grafana dashboard just show data of last 5 minutes. And if we need to have old data displayed, it can be slower, it does not need to come from ram.

I do not want to use GB’s of RAM nor lots of cpu cycles. I have Mysql and Postgres running on the same host. Who also do not consume much memory nor cpu. So why should I accept this from influxdb.

I am using influxdb because it supposed to be more efficient for time series data. So can anyone show me this is indeed the case with 256MB/512MB memory limit.

> [@I would like to bring down the processor usage on influxdb-1.5.2-1.x86\_64, how to trace what is going on?](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-would-like-to-bring-down-the-processor-usage-on-influxdb-1-5-2-1-x86-64-how-to-trace-what-is-going-on/5529/2):
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> asdfasdfasdfkasjdf;laksdfjasdfj Hello, Hello, what about an alternative time series database server that can do this? Or has better support?

> [@I would like to bring down the memory usage on influxdb-1.5.2-1.x86\_64 ( Out of memory: Kill process)](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-would-like-to-bring-down-the-memory-usage-on-influxdb-1-5-2-1-x86-64-out-of-memory-kill-process/5530):
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> I would like to configure influxdb to use 512MB of memory. Is that even possible? How to do this? What can I do to bring back this memory usage? I am a bit worried that influxdb seems to be very inefficient in a small environment (at least the default configuration), I would be a ‘mess’ on a larger scale deployment. There are here lots of unhandled OOM issues: url [Out Of memory when SELECT \* FROM LIMIT 1 on 128GB host (Influxdb 1.2.4)](http://community.influxdata.com/t/out-of-memory-when-select-from-limit-1-on-128gb-host-influxdb-1-2-4/3678) url [Memory usage on Low-end hardware](http://community.influxdata.com/t/memory-usage-on-low-end-hardware/3412) url [InfluxDB v1.3.1…](http://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-v1-3-1-how-to-reduce-memory-usage/1780/3)

FYI there are already some posts on the ceph mailing lists advicing to use collectd/graphite/grafana instead of influxdb. Maybe you want to pay attention to small monitoring setups.