Grafana vs Blueflood: What are the differences?
Developers describe Grafana as "Open source Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor". Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins. On the other hand, Blueflood is detailed as "A distributed system designed to ingest and process time series data". It is a high throughput, low latency, multi-tenant distributed metric processing system behind Rackspace Metrics, which is currently used in production by the Rackspace Monitoring team and Rackspace Public Cloud team to store metrics generated by their systems.
Grafana and Blueflood can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Grafana are:
- Create, edit, save & search dashboards
- Change column spans and row heights
- Drag and drop panels to rearrange
On the other hand, Blueflood provides the following key features:
Grafana and Blueflood are both open source tools. Grafana with 30.9K GitHub stars and 5.94K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Blueflood with 591 GitHub stars and 94 GitHub forks.