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Jaeger vs Nagios: What are the differences?
What is Jaeger? Distributed tracing system released as open source by Uber. Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing System.
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.
Jaeger and Nagios can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
Jaeger and Nagios are both open source tools. Jaeger with 8.42K GitHub stars and 848 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Nagios with 60 GitHub stars and 36 GitHub forks.
Uber Technologies, Dropbox, and 9GAG are some of the popular companies that use Nagios, whereas Jaeger is used by Uber Technologies, Postmates, and Wongnai. Nagios has a broader approval, being mentioned in 177 company stacks & 40 developers stacks; compared to Jaeger, which is listed in 21 company stacks and 13 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- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point.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 Jaeger
- Open Source4
- Feature Rich UI3
- CNCF Project3
- Easy to install3
Pros of Nagios
- It just works53
- The standard28
- Customizable12
- The Most flexible monitoring system8
- Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from1