MetricbeatWhat is Metricbeat?
Collect metrics from your systems and services. From CPU to memory, Redis to NGINX, and much more, It is a lightweight way to send system and service statistics.
Metricbeat is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
System-Level Monitoringsystem-level CPU usage statisticsNetwork IO statistics
Metricbeat Pros & Cons
Pros of Metricbeat
- ✓Simple
- ✓Easy to setup
Cons of Metricbeat
No cons listed yet.
Metricbeat Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Metricbeat?
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
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.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
