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collectd vs Monit: What are the differences?
Developers describe collectd as "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. On the other hand, Monit is detailed as "*A free, open-source process supervision tool *". It can monitor and manage distributed computer systems, conduct automatic maintenance and repair and execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
collectd and Monit can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by collectd are:
- fast
- simple
- integrated
On the other hand, Monit provides the following key features:
- Responsive UI
- Control Services Remotely
- Services Monitoring modes
collectd is an open source tool with 2.28K GitHub stars and 1.09K GitHub forks. Here's a link to collectd's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of collectd
- Open Source2
- Modular, plugins2
- KISS1