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StatsD vs WhaTap: What are the differences?

What is StatsD? Simple daemon for easy stats aggregation. StatsD is a front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics server, originally written by Etsy's Erik Kastner. StatsD is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

What is WhaTap? Check the status of your website for free URL monitoring. It provides improvement points to locate the source of problems in hidden areas that were not found in other products.

StatsD and WhaTap can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by StatsD are:

  • buckets: Each stat is in its own "bucket". They are not predefined anywhere. Buckets can be named anything that will translate to Graphite (periods make folders, etc)
  • values: Each stat will have a value. How it is interpreted depends on modifiers. In general values should be integer.
  • flush: After the flush interval timeout (defined by config.flushInterval, default 10 seconds), stats are aggregated and sent to an upstream backend service.

On the other hand, WhaTap provides the following key features:

  • Easy to install and quickly experience
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Integrated monitoring

StatsD is an open source tool with 14.3K GitHub stars and 1.84K GitHub forks. Here's a link to StatsD's open source repository on GitHub.

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    Open source
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    Single responsibility
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    Efficient wire format
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    Loads of integrations
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    Handles aggregation
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    Many implementations
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    Scales well
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    Simple to use
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      What is StatsD?

      It is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

      What is WhaTap?

      It provides improvement points to locate the source of problems in hidden areas that were not found in other products.

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