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Munin vs NetData: What are the differences?
Developers describe Munin as "PnP networked resource monitoring tool that can help to answer the what just happened to kill our performance". Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work. On the other hand, NetData is detailed as "Real-time performance monitoring, done right!". Netdata is distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. It is a highly optimized monitoring agent you install on all your systems and containers.
Munin and NetData can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Munin and NetData are both open source tools. It seems that NetData with 39.4K GitHub stars and 3.48K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Munin with 1.31K GitHub stars and 383 GitHub forks.
Augmedix, Kistriver, and Veaver Inc. are some of the popular companies that use NetData, whereas Munin is used by Redsmin, Index.co, and VuMedi. NetData has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to Munin, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Munin
- Good defaults3
- Extremely fast to install2
- Alerts can trigger any command line program2
- Adheres to traditional Linux standards2
- Easy to write custom plugins1
Pros of Netdata
- Free16
- Easy setup12
- Graphs are interactive10
- Well maintained on github8
- Montiors datasbases7
- Monitors nginx, redis, logs6
- Can submit metrics to Time Series databases3
- Open source2
- Netdata is also a statsd server2
- GPLv31
- Written in C1
- Hoa0
- Easy Alert Setop0