Monit vs Thanos: 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; Thanos: Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities.
Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity. It can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments and leverages the Prometheus 2.0 storage format to cost-efficiently store historical metric data in any object storage while retaining fast query latencies. Additionally, it provides a global query view across all Prometheus installations and can merge data from Prometheus HA pairs on the fly.
Monit and Thanos 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, Thanos provides the following key features:
- Global querying view across all connected Prometheus servers
- Deduplication and merging of metrics collected from Prometheus HA pairs
- Seamless integration with existing Prometheus setups
Thanos is an open source tool with 4.04K GitHub stars and 463 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Thanos's open source repository on GitHub.