Gnocchi is a time series database written in Python, that has been created inthe context of the OpenStack cloud computing project. It offers highly-scalable data storage for measurements and provides access to its data via aREST API. In this lecture, we'll discuss the features the project is offeringto its users, and how they can easily be leveraged in any application. In asecond part, we'll see how the project has been built to scale, how Python wasleveraged and made scalable.