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Amazon GuardDuty vs Telegraf: 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 Telegraf? The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics. It is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics.
Amazon GuardDuty and Telegraf belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Telegraf is an open source tool with 7.14K GitHub stars and 2.7K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Telegraf's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Amazon GuardDuty
- Easy setup2
Pros of Telegraf
- One agent can work as multiple exporter with min hndlng5
- Cohesioned stack for monitoring5
- Open Source2
- Metrics2
- Supports custom plugins in any language1
- Many hundreds of plugins1