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collectd vs M3: What are the differences?

collectd: System and applications metrics collector. collectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information. Those statistics can then be used to find current performance bottlenecks (i.e. performance analysis) and predict future system load (i.e. capacity planning). Or if you just want pretty graphs of your private server and are fed up with some homegrown solution you're at the right place, too; M3: Open source metrics platform built on M3DB, a distributed time-series database by Uber. A Prometheus and Graphite compatible metrics platform which includes a native distributed time series database, a highly dynamic and performant aggregation service, query engine and other supporting infrastructure.

collectd and M3 can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by collectd are:

  • fast
  • simple
  • integrated

On the other hand, M3 provides the following key features:

  • Prometheus Integration
  • Graphite Integration
  • Scalable Clusters (up to billions of metrics)

collectd and M3 are both open source tools. It seems that collectd with 2.26K GitHub stars and 1.08K forks on GitHub has more adoption than M3 with 1.95K GitHub stars and 162 GitHub forks.

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    What is collectd?

    collectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information. Those statistics can then be used to find current performance bottlenecks (i.e. performance analysis) and predict future system load (i.e. capacity planning). Or if you just want pretty graphs of your private server and are fed up with some homegrown solution you're at the right place, too.

    What is M3?

    A Prometheus and Graphite compatible metrics platform which includes a native distributed time series database, a highly dynamic and performant aggregation service, query engine and other supporting infrastructure.

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    What are some alternatives to collectd and M3?
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    It is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).
    Nagios
    Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.
    Ganglia
    It is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters.
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