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M3 vs Nagios: What are the differences?
Developers describe M3 as "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. On the other hand, Nagios is detailed as "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.
M3 and Nagios belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by M3 are:
- Prometheus Integration
- Graphite Integration
- Scalable Clusters (up to billions of metrics)
On the other hand, Nagios provides the following key features:
- Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
- Spot problems before they occur
- Know immediately when problems arise
M3 and Nagios are both open source tools. M3 with 1.95K GitHub stars and 162 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Nagios with 60 GitHub stars and 36 GitHub forks.
- 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- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point.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 M3
Pros of Nagios
- It just works53
- The standard28
- Customizable12
- The Most flexible monitoring system8
- Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from1
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