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Decisions about Nagios, Netdata, and Sysdig
Matthias Fleschütz
Teamlead IT at NanoTemper Technologies · | 2 upvotes · 109.9K views
- 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- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point.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.
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Pros of Nagios
- It just works53
- The standard28
- Customizable12
- The Most flexible monitoring system8
- Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from1
Pros of Netdata
- Free17
- Easy setup13
- Graphs are interactive11
- Montiors datasbases8
- Well maintained on github8
- Monitors nginx, redis, logs7
- Can submit metrics to Time Series databases4
- Open source3
- Easy Alert Setop2
- Netdata is also a statsd server2
- GPLv31
- Written in C1
Pros of Sysdig
- Powerful web app5
- Easy setup5
- Monitoring5
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What is Nagios?
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
What is Netdata?
Netdata democratizes monitoring, empowering IT teams to know more about their infrastructure, enabling them to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues, collaborate to solve problems, and make data-driven decisions to move business forward.
What is Sysdig?
Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
Sysdig is scriptable in Lua and includes a command line interface and a powerful interactive UI, csysdig, that runs in your terminal. Think of sysdig as strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + awesome sauce.
With state of the art container visibility on top.
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