Metrictank uses metrics2.0 for structuring metrics and naming them. Note that tags are modeled as an array of strings, where you can have key:value tags but also simply value tags.

While metrictank can ingest and store data in metrics2.0 format, making use out of this data is still on ongoing project.

Here are some goals:

• automatically setting the right unit and axis labels in grafana
• automatically converting available data to the requested unit for displaying
• automatically merging series (if you send a series first as a time in ms and then s, we can intelligently merge)
• automatically setting consolidation parameters based on the mtype tag