Cacti vs nodejs-dashboard: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is nodejs-dashboard? Telemetry dashboard for node.js apps from the terminal. Determine in realtime what's happening inside your node process from the terminal. No need to instrument code to get the deets. Also splits stderr/stdout to help spot errors sooner.

Cacti belongs to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack, while nodejs-dashboard can be primarily classified under "node.js Application Monitoring".

nodejs-dashboard is an open source tool with 3.73K GitHub stars and 146 GitHub forks. Here's a link to nodejs-dashboard's open source repository on GitHub.