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 This is a Golang backend implementation for a REST and GraphQL API according to the [ClusterCockpit specifications](https://github.com/ClusterCockpit/cc-specifications).
 It also includes a web interface for ClusterCockpit.
-While there is a backend for the InfluxDB metric data repository, the only tested and supported setup is using cc-metric-store as a mtric data backend.
+While there is a backend for the InfluxDB timeseries database, the only tested and supported setup is using cc-metric-store as a mtric data backend.
 We will add documentation how to integrate CluisterCockpity with other existing timeseries databases in the future.
 This implementation replaces the previous PHP Symfony based ClusterCockpit web-interface.
 [Here](https://github.com/ClusterCockpit/ClusterCockpit/wiki/Why-we-switched-from-PHP-Symfony-to-a-Golang-based-solution) is a discussion of the reasons why we switched from PHP Symfony to a Golang based solution.