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Alternatives to Prometheus

Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, InfluxDB, and Splunk are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Prometheus.
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What is Prometheus and what are its top alternatives?

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.
Prometheus is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Prometheus is an open source tool with 47.3K GitHub stars and 8K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Prometheus's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Prometheus

  • Datadog
    Datadog

    Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog! ...

  • Grafana
    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. ...

  • New Relic
    New Relic

    The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too. ...

  • InfluxDB
    InfluxDB

    InfluxDB is a scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics. It has a built-in HTTP API so you don't have to write any server side code to get up and running. InfluxDB is designed to be scalable, simple to install and manage, and fast to get data in and out. ...

  • Splunk
    Splunk

    It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data. ...

  • Graphite
    Graphite

    Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand ...

  • Zabbix
    Zabbix

    Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics. ...

  • AppDynamics
    AppDynamics

    AppDynamics develops application performance management (APM) solutions that deliver problem resolution for highly distributed applications through transaction flow monitoring and deep diagnostics. ...

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Datadog

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Unify logs, metrics, and traces from across your distributed infrastructure.
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PROS OF DATADOG
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    Monitoring for many apps (databases, web servers, etc)
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    Easy setup
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    Powerful ui
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    Powerful integrations
  • 69
    Great value
  • 53
    Great visualization
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    Events + metrics = clarity
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    Custom metrics
  • 40
    Notifications
  • 38
    Flexibility
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    Free & paid plans
  • 15
    Great customer support
  • 14
    Makes my life easier
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    Adapts automatically as i scale up
  • 8
    Easy setup and plugins
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    Super easy and powerful
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    AWS support
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    In-context collaboration
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    Rich in features
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    Docker support
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    Cost
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    Automation tools
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    Source control and bug tracking
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    Simple, powerful, great for infra
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    Cute logo
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    Expensive
  • 3
    Easy to Analyze
  • 3
    Full visibility of applications
  • 3
    Monitor almost everything
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    Best than others
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    Good for Startups
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    Free setup
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    Best in the field
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    APM
CONS OF DATADOG
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    Expensive
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    No errors exception tracking
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    External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging
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    Complicated

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Robert Zuber

Our primary source of monitoring and alerting is Datadog. We’ve got prebuilt dashboards for every scenario and integration with PagerDuty to manage routing any alerts. We’ve definitely scaled past the point where managing dashboards is easy, but we haven’t had time to invest in using features like Anomaly Detection. We’ve started using Honeycomb for some targeted debugging of complex production issues and we are liking what we’ve seen. We capture any unhandled exceptions with Rollbar and, if we realize one will keep happening, we quickly convert the metrics to point back to Datadog, to keep Rollbar as clean as possible.

We use Segment to consolidate all of our trackers, the most important of which goes to Amplitude to analyze user patterns. However, if we need a more consolidated view, we push all of our data to our own data warehouse running PostgreSQL; this is available for analytics and dashboard creation through Looker.

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We are looking for a centralised monitoring solution for our application deployed on Amazon EKS. We would like to monitor using metrics from Kubernetes, AWS services (NeptuneDB, AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, etc) and application microservice's custom metrics.

We are expected to use around 80 microservices (not replicas). I think a total of 200-250 microservices will be there in the system with 10-12 slave nodes.

We tried Prometheus but it looks like maintenance is a big issue. We need to manage scaling, maintaining the storage, and dealing with multiple exporters and Grafana. I felt this itself needs few dedicated resources (at least 2-3 people) to manage. Not sure if I am thinking in the correct direction. Please confirm.

You mentioned Datadog and Sysdig charges per host. Does it charge per slave node?

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Grafana

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Open source Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor
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PROS OF GRAFANA
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    Beautiful
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    Graphs are interactive
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    Free
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    Easy
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    Nicer than the Graphite web interface
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    Many integrations
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    Can build dashboards
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    Can collaborate on dashboards
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    Easy to specify time window
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    Dashboards contain number tiles
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    Click and drag to zoom in
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    Integration with InfluxDB
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    Open Source
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    Authentification and users management
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    Threshold limits in graphs
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    Simple and native support to Prometheus
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    It is open to cloud watch and many database
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    Alerts
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    You can visualize real time data to put alerts
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    You can use this for development to check memcache
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    Great community support
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    Plugin visualizationa
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    Grapsh as code
CONS OF GRAFANA
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    No interactive query builder

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 15 upvotes · 3.5M views

Why we spent several years building an open source, large-scale metrics alerting system, M3, built for Prometheus:

By late 2014, all services, infrastructure, and servers at Uber emitted metrics to a Graphite stack that stored them using the Whisper file format in a sharded Carbon cluster. We used Grafana for dashboarding and Nagios for alerting, issuing Graphite threshold checks via source-controlled scripts. While this worked for a while, expanding the Carbon cluster required a manual resharding process and, due to lack of replication, any single node’s disk failure caused permanent loss of its associated metrics. In short, this solution was not able to meet our needs as the company continued to grow.

To ensure the scalability of Uber’s metrics backend, we decided to build out a system that provided fault tolerant metrics ingestion, storage, and querying as a managed platform...

https://eng.uber.com/m3/

(GitHub : https://github.com/m3db/m3)

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Matt Menzenski
Senior Software Engineering Manager at PayIt · | 15 upvotes · 382.5K views

Grafana and Prometheus together, running on Kubernetes , is a powerful combination. These tools are cloud-native and offer a large community and easy integrations. At PayIt we're using exporting Java application metrics using a Dropwizard metrics exporter, and our Node.js services now use the prom-client npm library to serve metrics.

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New Relic

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New Relic is the industry’s largest and most comprehensive cloud-based observability platform.
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    Easy setup
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    Really powerful
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    Awesome visualization
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    Ease of use
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    Great ui
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    Free tier
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    Great tool for insights
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    Heroku Integration
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    Market leader
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    Peace of mind
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    Push notifications
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    Email notifications
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    Heroku Add-on
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    Error Detection and Alerting
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    Multiple language support
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    SQL Analysis
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    Server Resources Monitoring
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    Transaction Tracing
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    Apdex Scores
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    Azure Add-on
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    Analysis of CPU, Disk, Memory, and Network
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    Performance of External Services
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    Error Analysis
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    Detailed reports
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    Application Response Times
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    Application Availability Monitoring and Alerting
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    JVM Performance Analyzer (Java)
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    Most Time Consuming Transactions
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    Easy to use
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    Browser Transaction Tracing
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    Top Database Operations
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    Pagoda Box integration
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    Custom Dashboards
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    Weekly Performance Email
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    Application Map
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    Background Jobs Transaction Analysis
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    App Speed Index
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    Easy visibility
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    Easy to setup
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    Free
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    Rails integration
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    Super Expensive
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    Metric Data Resolution
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    Metric Data Retention
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    Team Collaboration Tools
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    Best of the best, what more can you ask for
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    Best monitoring on the market
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    Real User Monitoring Overview
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    Real User Monitoring Analysis and Breakdown
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    Time Comparisons
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    Access to Performance Data API
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    Worst Transactions by User Dissatisfaction
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    Incident Detection and Alerting
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    Exceptions
CONS OF NEW RELIC
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    Pricing model doesn't suit microservices
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    UI isn't great
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    Expensive
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    Visualizations aren't very helpful
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    Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

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Farzeem Diamond Jiwani
Software Engineer at IVP · | 7 upvotes · 1M views

Hey there! We are looking at Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic as options for our web application monitoring.

Current Environment: .NET Core Web app hosted on Microsoft IIS

Future Environment: Web app will be hosted on Microsoft Azure

Tech Stacks: IIS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server

Requirement: Infra Monitoring, APM, Real - User Monitoring (User activity monitoring i.e., time spent on a page, most active page, etc.), Service Tracing, Root Cause Analysis, and Centralized Log Management.

Please advise on the above. Thanks!

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Sebastian Gębski

Regarding Continuous Integration - we've started with something very easy to set up - CircleCI , but with time we're adding more & more complex pipelines - we use Jenkins to configure & run those. It's much more effort, but at some point we had to pay for the flexibility we expected. Our source code version control is Git (which probably doesn't require a rationale these days) and we keep repos in GitHub - since the very beginning & we never considered moving out. Our primary monitoring these days is in New Relic (Ruby & SPA apps) and AppSignal (Elixir apps) - we're considering unifying it in New Relic , but this will require some improvements in Elixir app observability. For error reporting we use Sentry (a very popular choice in this class) & we collect our distributed logs using Logentries (to avoid semi-manual handling here).

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InfluxDB

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PROS OF INFLUXDB
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    Time-series data analysis
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    Easy setup, no dependencies
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    Fast, scalable & open source
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    Open source
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    Real-time analytics
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    Continuous Query support
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    Easy Query Language
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    HTTP API
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    Out-of-the-box, automatic Retention Policy
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    Offers Enterprise version
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    Free Open Source version
CONS OF INFLUXDB
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    Instability
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    HA or Clustering is only in paid version

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  1. To get the logs, I have uncertainty to choose the way: 1.1 Use Logstash like a TCP server. 1.2 Implement a Go TCP server.

  2. To store and plot data. 2.1 Use Elasticsearch tools. 2.2 Use InfluxDB and Grafana.

I would like to know... Which is a cheaper and scalable solution?

Or even if there is a better way to do it.

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Splunk

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Search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data
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PROS OF SPLUNK
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    Ability to style search results into reports
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    Alert system based on custom query results
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    API for searching logs, running reports
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    Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc
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    Query any log as key-value pairs
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    Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc
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    Granular scheduling and time window support
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    Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing
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    Dashboarding on any log contents
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    Rich GUI for searching live logs
CONS OF SPLUNK
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    Splunk query language rich so lots to learn

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Graphite

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A highly scalable real-time graphing system
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PROS OF GRAPHITE
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    Render any graph
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    Well supported integrations
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    Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 15 upvotes · 3.5M views

    Why we spent several years building an open source, large-scale metrics alerting system, M3, built for Prometheus:

    By late 2014, all services, infrastructure, and servers at Uber emitted metrics to a Graphite stack that stored them using the Whisper file format in a sharded Carbon cluster. We used Grafana for dashboarding and Nagios for alerting, issuing Graphite threshold checks via source-controlled scripts. While this worked for a while, expanding the Carbon cluster required a manual resharding process and, due to lack of replication, any single node’s disk failure caused permanent loss of its associated metrics. In short, this solution was not able to meet our needs as the company continued to grow.

    To ensure the scalability of Uber’s metrics backend, we decided to build out a system that provided fault tolerant metrics ingestion, storage, and querying as a managed platform...

    https://eng.uber.com/m3/

    (GitHub : https://github.com/m3db/m3)

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    A huge part of our continuous deployment practices is to have granular alerting and monitoring across the platform. To do this, we run Sentry on-premise, inside our VPCs, for our event alerting, and we run an awesome observability and monitoring system consisting of StatsD, Graphite and Grafana. We have dashboards using this system to monitor our core subsystems so that we can know the health of any given subsystem at any moment. This system ties into our PagerDuty rotation, as well as alerts from some of our Amazon CloudWatch alarms (we’re looking to migrate all of these to our internal monitoring system soon).

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    Zabbix

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    PROS OF ZABBIX
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      Alerts
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      Service/node/network discovery
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      Templates
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      Base metrics from the box
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      Multi-dashboards
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      SMS/Email/Messenger alerts
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      Grafana plugin available
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      Supports Graphs ans screens
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      Support proxies (for monitoring remote branches)
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      Perform website checking (response time, loading, ...)
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      API available for creating own apps
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      Templates free available (Zabbix Share)
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      Works with multiple databases
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      Advanced integrations
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      Supports multiple protocols/agents
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      Complete Logs Report
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      Open source
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      Supports large variety of Operating Systems
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      Supports JMX (Java, Tomcat, Jboss, ...)
    CONS OF ZABBIX
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      The UI is in PHP
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      Puppet module is sluggish

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    PROS OF APPDYNAMICS
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      Deep code visibility
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      Powerful
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      Real-Time Visibility
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      Great visualization
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      Comprehensive Coverage of Programming Languages
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      Easy Setup
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      Deep DB Troubleshooting
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      Excellent Customer Support
    CONS OF APPDYNAMICS
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      Expensive
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      Poor to non-existent integration with aws services

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