Monit vs HostedMetrics: What are the differences?
Monit: *A free, open-source process supervision tool *. It can monitor and manage distributed computer systems, conduct automatic maintenance and repair and execute meaningful causal actions in error situations; HostedMetrics: Hosted and managed open-source monitoring tools. Hosted and fully managed versions of the popular open-source monitoring tools Grafana, Prometheus, and InfluxDB, packaged as turnkey solutions for application, infrastructure, and IoT monitoring.
Monit and HostedMetrics can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Monit are:
- Responsive UI
- Control Services Remotely
- Services Monitoring modes
On the other hand, HostedMetrics provides the following key features:
- Instant Start
- Collect and make use of metrics without the hassle of running, scaling, and maintaining a metrics platform
- Reduces costs by offering sensibly pre-configured, productive, hosted and managed tools to collect and visualize the metrics that you need to understand your systems, processes, and code