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Alternatives to Netdata

Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, Nagios, and Munin are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Netdata.
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What is Netdata and what are its top alternatives?

Netdata collects metrics per second & presents them in low-latency dashboards. It's designed to run on all of your physical & virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters & edge/IoT devices, to monitor systems, containers & apps
Netdata is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Netdata is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Netdata's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Netdata

  • Grafana
    Grafana

    Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins. ...

  • Prometheus
    Prometheus

    Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true. ...

  • Zabbix
    Zabbix

    Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics. ...

  • Nagios
    Nagios

    Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License. ...

  • Munin
    Munin

    Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work. ...

  • ELK
    ELK

    It is the acronym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a server‑side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to a "stash" like Elasticsearch. Kibana lets users visualize data with charts and graphs in Elasticsearch. ...

  • Graphite
    Graphite

    Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand ...

  • Telegraf
    Telegraf

    It is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics. ...

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    Graphs are interactive
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    Nicer than the Graphite web interface
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    Many integrations
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    Can build dashboards
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    Easy to specify time window
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    Can collaborate on dashboards
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    Dashboards contain number tiles
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    Open Source
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    Integration with InfluxDB
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    Click and drag to zoom in
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    Authentification and users management
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    Threshold limits in graphs
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    Alerts
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    It is open to cloud watch and many database
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    Simple and native support to Prometheus
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    Great community support
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    You can use this for development to check memcache
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    You can visualize real time data to put alerts
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    Grapsh as code
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    Plugin visualizationa
CONS OF GRAFANA
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    No interactive query builder

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Prometheus

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PROS OF PROMETHEUS
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    Flexible query language
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    Dimensional data model
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    Alerts
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    Active and responsive community
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    Extensive integrations
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    Easy to setup
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    Beautiful Model and Query language
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    Easy to extend
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    Nice
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    Written in Go
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    Good for experimentation
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    Easy for monitoring
CONS OF PROMETHEUS
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    Just for metrics
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    Bad UI
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    Needs monitoring to access metrics endpoints
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    Not easy to configure and use
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    Supports only active agents
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    Written in Go
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    TLS is quite difficult to understand
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    Requires multiple applications and tools
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    Single point of failure

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 15 upvotes · 5M views

Why we spent several years building an open source, large-scale metrics alerting system, M3, built for Prometheus:

By late 2014, all services, infrastructure, and servers at Uber emitted metrics to a Graphite stack that stored them using the Whisper file format in a sharded Carbon cluster. We used Grafana for dashboarding and Nagios for alerting, issuing Graphite threshold checks via source-controlled scripts. While this worked for a while, expanding the Carbon cluster required a manual resharding process and, due to lack of replication, any single node’s disk failure caused permanent loss of its associated metrics. In short, this solution was not able to meet our needs as the company continued to grow.

To ensure the scalability of Uber’s metrics backend, we decided to build out a system that provided fault tolerant metrics ingestion, storage, and querying as a managed platform...

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Zabbix

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Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
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PROS OF ZABBIX
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    Free
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    Alerts
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    Service/node/network discovery
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    Templates
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    Base metrics from the box
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    Multi-dashboards
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    SMS/Email/Messenger alerts
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    Grafana plugin available
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    Supports Graphs ans screens
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    Support proxies (for monitoring remote branches)
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    Perform website checking (response time, loading, ...)
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    API available for creating own apps
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    Templates free available (Zabbix Share)
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    Works with multiple databases
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    Advanced integrations
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    Supports multiple protocols/agents
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    Complete Logs Report
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    Open source
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    Supports large variety of Operating Systems
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    Supports JMX (Java, Tomcat, Jboss, ...)
CONS OF ZABBIX
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    The UI is in PHP
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    Puppet module is sluggish

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    It just works
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    Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from
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    Munin

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    PnP networked resource monitoring tool that can help to answer the what just happened to kill our performance
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      Alerts can trigger any command line program
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      Adheres to traditional Linux standards
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      Easy to write custom plugins
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      ELK

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      PROS OF ELK
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        Can run locally
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        Good for startups with monetary limitations
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        External Network Goes Down You Aren't Without Logging
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        Easy to setup
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      PROS OF GRAPHITE
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        Render any graph
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        Great functions to apply on timeseries
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        Well supported integrations
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        Includes event tracking
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        Rolling aggregation makes storage managable
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        PROS OF TELEGRAF
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          One agent can work as multiple exporter with min hndlng
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          Cohesioned stack for monitoring
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          Metrics
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          Supports custom plugins in any language
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          Many hundreds of plugins
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