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+from typing import List, Sequence
+
+from snuba.clickhouse.columns import UUID, Column, DateTime, String, UInt
+from snuba.clusters.storage_sets import StorageSetKey
+from snuba.migrations import migration, operations, table_engines
+from snuba.migrations.columns import MigrationModifiers as Modifiers
+from snuba.migrations.operations import AddIndicesData, OperationTarget, SqlOperation
+
+storage_set = StorageSetKey.UPTIME_MONITOR_CHECKS
+table_prefix = "uptime_monitor_checks"
+local_table_name = f"{table_prefix}_local"
+dist_table_name = f"{table_prefix}_dist"
+
+## what about all the fancy codecs? do we need those?
+columns: List[Column[Modifiers]] = [
+    Column("organization_id", UInt(64)),
+    Column("project_id", UInt(64)),
+    Column("environment", String(Modifiers(nullable=True, low_cardinality=True))),
+    Column("uptime_subscription_id", UInt(64)),
+    Column("uptime_check_id", UUID()),
+    Column("scheduled_check_time", DateTime()),
+    Column("timestamp", DateTime()),
+    Column("_sort_timestamp", DateTime()),
+    Column("duration", UInt(64)),
+    Column("region_id", UInt(16, Modifiers(nullable=True))),
+    Column("check_status", String(Modifiers(low_cardinality=True))),
+    Column(
+        "check_status_reason",
+        String(Modifiers(nullable=True, low_cardinality=True)),
+    ),
+    Column("http_status_code", UInt(16)),
+    Column("trace_id", UUID()),
+    Column("retention_days", UInt(16)),
+]
+
+indices: Sequence[AddIndicesData] = [
+    AddIndicesData(
+        name="bf_trace_id",
+        expression="trace_id",
+        type="bloom_filter",
+        granularity=1,
+    )
+]
+
+
+class Migration(migration.ClickhouseNodeMigration):
+    blocking = False
+
+    def forwards_ops(self) -> Sequence[SqlOperation]:
+        return [
+            operations.CreateTable(
+                storage_set=storage_set,
+                table_name=local_table_name,
+                columns=columns,
+                engine=table_engines.ReplacingMergeTree(
+                    # do i actually need primary key to be different than sorting key?
+                    primary_key="(organization_id, project_id, _sort_timestamp, uptime_check_id)",
+                    order_by="(organization_id, project_id, uptime_subscription_id, _sort_timestamp, uptime_check_id)",
+                    partition_by="(retention_days, toMonday(_sort_timestamp))",
+                    settings={"index_granularity": "8192"},
+                    storage_set=storage_set,
+                    ttl="_sort_timestamp + toIntervalDay(retention_days)",
+                ),
+                target=OperationTarget.LOCAL,
+            ),
+            operations.CreateTable(
+                storage_set=storage_set,
+                table_name=dist_table_name,
+                columns=columns,
+                engine=table_engines.Distributed(
+                    local_table_name=local_table_name,
+                    sharding_key="cityHash64(reinterpretAsUInt128(trace_id))",
+                ),
+                target=OperationTarget.DISTRIBUTED,
+            ),
+            operations.AddIndices(
+                storage_set=storage_set,
+                table_name=local_table_name,
+                indices=indices,
+                target=OperationTarget.LOCAL,
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    def backwards_ops(self) -> Sequence[SqlOperation]:
+        return [
+            operations.DropTable(
+                storage_set=storage_set,
+                table_name=dist_table_name,
+                target=OperationTarget.DISTRIBUTED,
+            ),
+            operations.DropTable(
+                storage_set=storage_set,
+                table_name=local_table_name,
+                target=OperationTarget.LOCAL,
+            ),
+        ]