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Cacti vs NetData: What are the differences?
Cacti: Cacti stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box; 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.
Cacti and NetData belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
"Free" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Cacti, while over 8 developers mention "Free" as the leading cause for choosing NetData.
NetData is an open source tool with 39.4K GitHub stars and 3.48K GitHub forks. Here's a link to NetData's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, NetData has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to Cacti, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Cacti
- Free3
- Rrdtool based3
- Fast poller2
- Graphs from snmp1
- Graphs from language independent scripts1
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
