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Nagios vs Statsite: What are the differences?
Developers describe Nagios 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. On the other hand, Statsite is detailed as "C implementation of statsd". Statsite is a metrics aggregation server. Statsite is based heavily on Etsy's StatsD https://github.com/etsy/statsd, and is wire compatible.
Nagios and Statsite can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Nagios are:
- Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
- Spot problems before they occur
- Know immediately when problems arise
On the other hand, Statsite provides the following key features:
- Multiple metric types
- Efficient summary metrics for timer data
- Dynamic set implementation
Nagios and Statsite are both open source tools. Statsite with 1.73K GitHub stars and 241 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- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point.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 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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