collectd vs Hosted Graphite: What are the differences?
Developers describe collectd as "System and applications metrics collector". collectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information. Those statistics can then be used to find current performance bottlenecks (i.e. performance analysis) and predict future system load (i.e. capacity planning). Or if you just want pretty graphs of your private server and are fed up with some homegrown solution you're at the right place, too. On the other hand, Hosted Graphite is detailed as "Graphite as a service". Hosted Graphite is the powerful open-source application metrics system used by hundreds of companies. We take away the headaches of scaling, maintenance, and upgrades and let you do what you do best - write great software.
collectd and Hosted Graphite belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by collectd are:
On the other hand, Hosted Graphite provides the following key features:
- Dashboards- Standard Graphite and Tasseo dashboards out of the box
- Account Sharing- Allow team members to customise graphs and dashboards
- Access Keys- Export data to external monitoring systems, dashboards and alerting systems
collectd is an open source tool with 2.26K GitHub stars and 1.08K GitHub forks. Here's a link to collectd's open source repository on GitHub.
