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Graphite vs RRDtool: What are the differences?
Graphite: A highly scalable real-time graphing system. Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand; RRDtool: High performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. RRDtool lets you log and analyze the data you gather from all kinds of data-sources (DS). The data analysis part of RRDtool is based on the ability to quickly generate graphical representations of the data values collected over a definable time period.
Graphite and RRDtool belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
"Render any graph" is the primary reason why developers consider Graphite over the competitors, whereas "Do one thing and do it well" was stated as the key factor in picking RRDtool.
Graphite and RRDtool are both open source tools. It seems that Graphite with 4.58K GitHub stars and 1.2K forks on GitHub has more adoption than RRDtool with 562 GitHub stars and 199 GitHub forks.
Looking for a tool which can be used for mainly dashboard purposes, but here are the main requirements:
- Must be able to get custom data from AS400,
- Able to display automation test results,
- System monitoring / Nginx API,
- Able to get data from 3rd parties DB.
Grafana is almost solving all the problems, except AS400 and no database to get automation test results.
You can look out for Prometheus Instrumentation (https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/instrumentation/) Client Library available in various languages https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/ to create the custom metric you need for AS4000 and then Grafana can query the newly instrumented metric to show on the dashboard.
Pros of Graphite
- Render any graph16
- Great functions to apply on timeseries9
- Well supported integrations8
- Includes event tracking6
- Rolling aggregation makes storage managable3
Pros of RRDtool
- Do one thing and do it well6
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