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## Technical reports
> Technical reports are in-depth coverage of various technologies and workflows developed by our consultants.
**[Next generation monitoring with OpenTSDB][1]**
*Current monitoring systems have limitations with scalability, flexibility and specifically IO-overload. This is a detailed tutorial on how to set up OpenTSDB with compression on a single node to handle large amounts of metrics efficiently. *
## Tech notes
> Tech notes are shorter pieces on relevant topics in IT and network operations today.
[1]: articles/2014-06-02-next-generation-monitoring-using-opentsdb.html