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StatsD vs Circonus: What are the differences?
What is StatsD? Simple daemon for easy stats aggregation. StatsD is a front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics server, originally written by Etsy's Erik Kastner. StatsD is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).
What is Circonus? Hacker-grade monitoring and analytics platform made for engineer. It provides your team the tools, support and insight to deliver the best online experience for your customer.
StatsD and Circonus can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by StatsD are:
- buckets: Each stat is in its own "bucket". They are not predefined anywhere. Buckets can be named anything that will translate to Graphite (periods make folders, etc)
- values: Each stat will have a value. How it is interpreted depends on modifiers. In general values should be integer.
- flush: After the flush interval timeout (defined by config.flushInterval, default 10 seconds), stats are aggregated and sent to an upstream backend service.
On the other hand, Circonus provides the following key features:
- Bandwidth Monitoring
- Baseline Manager Dashboard
- Internet Usage Monitoring
StatsD is an open source tool with 14.4K GitHub stars and 1.85K GitHub forks. Here's a link to StatsD's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Circonus
Pros of StatsD
- Open source9
- Single responsibility7
- Efficient wire format5
- Loads of integrations3
- Handles aggregation3
- Many implementations1
- Scales well1
- Simple to use1
- NodeJS1
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Cons of Circonus
Cons of StatsD
- No authentication; cannot be used over Internet1
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