Amazon GuardDuty vs Monit: What are the differences?
What is Amazon GuardDuty? Continuous Security Monitoring and Threat Detection. It is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads. It monitors for activity such as unusual API calls or potentially unauthorized deployments that indicate a possible account compromise. It also detects potentially compromised instances or reconnaissance by attackers.
What is 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.
Amazon GuardDuty and Monit belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Amazon GuardDuty are:
- Accurate, account-level threat detection
- Continuous monitoring across AWS accounts without added cost and complexity
- Threat detections developed and optimized for the cloud
On the other hand, Monit provides the following key features:
- Responsive UI
- Control Services Remotely
- Services Monitoring modes