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Chronograf vs Nagios: What are the differences?
What is Chronograf? *It is the user interface and administrative component *. The complete interface. allows you to quickly see the data that you have stored, so you can build robust queries and alerts.
What is Nagios? Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services. Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.
Chronograf and Nagios can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
Chronograf and Nagios are both open source tools. It seems that Chronograf with 17.1K GitHub stars and 2.43K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Nagios with 60 GitHub stars and 36 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Nagios has a broader approval, being mentioned in 223 company stacks & 309 developers stacks; compared to Chronograf, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
- free open source
- modern interface and architecture
- large community
- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
Pros of Chronograf
- Can build dashboards1
- Open Source1
- Easy1
- Free1
- It´s extremely compatible with Influxdb1
Pros of Nagios
- It just works53
- The standard28
- Customizable12
- The Most flexible monitoring system8
- Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from1