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Cabot vs NetData: What are the differences?
What is Cabot? Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty. Cabot is a free, open-source, self-hosted infrastructure monitoring platform that provides some of the best features of PagerDuty, Server Density, Pingdom and Nagios without their cost and complexity. Monitor services (e.g. "Stage Redis server", "Production ElasticSearch cluster") and send telephone, sms or hipchat/email alerts to your on-duty team if those services start misbehaving or go down - all without writing a line of code.
What is NetData? Real-time performance monitoring, done right!. Netdata is distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. It is a highly optimized monitoring agent you install on all your systems and containers.
Cabot and NetData can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Cabot and NetData are both open source tools. NetData with 39K GitHub stars and 3.44K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Cabot with 4.42K GitHub stars and 481 GitHub forks.
Pros of Cabot
Pros of Netdata
- Free17
- Easy setup14
- Graphs are interactive12
- Montiors datasbases9
- Well maintained on github9
- Monitors nginx, redis, logs8
- Can submit metrics to Time Series databases4
- Open source3
- Easy Alert Setop2
- Netdata is also a statsd server2
- Written in C1
- GPLv31
- Zabbix0