Design a Metrics Storage Platform

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This question evaluates system-design and distributed-systems skills for time-series metrics storage, focusing on data modeling for counters, gauges, and histograms, ingestion and query pipelines, API design, sharding and storage formats, retention/compaction, availability, and multi-tenant considerations.

Design a Metrics Storage Platform

Company: Okta

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: This question evaluates system-design and distributed-systems skills for time-series metrics storage, focusing on data modeling for counters, gauges, and histograms, ingestion and query pipelines, API design, sharding and storage formats, retention/compaction, availability, and multi-tenant considerations.

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Mar 30, 2026
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