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  5. Apex Ping vs Grafana vs Scout

Apex Ping vs Grafana vs Scout

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Overview

Scout
Scout
Stacks84
Followers86
Votes21
Grafana
Grafana
Stacks18.4K
Followers14.6K
Votes415
GitHub Stars70.7K
Forks13.1K
Apex Ping
Apex Ping
Stacks7
Followers19
Votes2

Apex Ping vs Grafana vs Scout: What are the differences?

# Comparison between Apex Ping, Grafana, and Scout

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1. **Cost Structure**: Apex Ping charges a fixed monthly fee per device, while Grafana and Scout offer usage-based billing, giving more flexibility based on monitoring needs.
2. **Data Visualization**: Grafana provides customizable dashboards with various visualization options, while Scout focuses more on automatic report generation for quick analysis.
3. **Alerting System**: Apex Ping offers basic alerting based on thresholds, while Grafana and Scout provide more advanced alerting capabilities with integration options.
4. **Data Collection**: Grafana supports multiple data sources and plugins for data collection, while Scout focuses on simplicity with fewer data source options.
5. **Integration with Other Tools**: Grafana has extensive integration capabilities with various tools and services, while Scout and Apex Ping have limited integration options.
6. **Community Support**: Grafana has a large user community with active forums and resources, while Scout and Apex Ping have smaller user bases with limited community support.

In Summary, the key differences between Apex Ping, Grafana, and Scout lie in their cost structure, data visualization capabilities, alerting systems, data collection methods, integration options, and community support.

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Advice on Scout, Grafana, Apex Ping

StackShare
StackShare

Jun 25, 2019

Needs advice

From a StackShare Community member: “We need better analytics & insights into our Elasticsearch cluster. Grafana, which ships with advanced support for Elasticsearch, looks great but isn’t officially supported/endorsed by Elastic. Kibana, on the other hand, is made and supported by Elastic. I’m wondering what people suggest in this situation."

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Susmita
Susmita

Senior SRE at African Bank

Jul 28, 2020

Needs adviceonGrafanaGrafana

Looking for a tool which can be used for mainly dashboard purposes, but here are the main requirements:

  • Must be able to get custom data from AS400,
  • Able to display automation test results,
  • System monitoring / Nginx API,
  • Able to get data from 3rd parties DB.

Grafana is almost solving all the problems, except AS400 and no database to get automation test results.

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Mat
Mat

Head of Cloud at Mats Cloud

Oct 30, 2019

Needs advice

We're looking for a Monitoring and Logging tool. It has to support AWS (mostly 100% serverless, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, API GW, CloudFront, Autora, etc.), as well as Azure and GCP (for now mostly used as pure IaaS, with a lot of cognitive services, and mostly managed DB). Hopefully, something not as expensive as Datadog or New relic, as our SRE team could support the tool inhouse. At the moment, we primarily use CloudWatch for AWS and Pandora for most on-prem.

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Detailed Comparison

Scout
Scout
Grafana
Grafana
Apex Ping
Apex Ping

Scout APM helps developers quickly pinpoint & resolve performance issues before the customer ever sees them. Spend less time debugging & more time building with a streamlined interface & tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code.

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.

Modern uptime and performance monitoring for websites and APIs, with rich reporting, flexible alerting, and competitive pricing. More than just HEAD requests: choose an HTTP method, headers, and body for any request.

Monitors Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js & Elixir apps;Easy install;Detailed transaction traces;Alerting;Deploy Tracking
Create, edit, save & search dashboards;Change column spans and row heights;Drag and drop panels to rearrange;Use InfluxDB or Elasticsearch as dashboard storage;Import & export dashboard (json file);Import dashboard from Graphite;Templating
Simple;Rich reporting;Flexible alerts;Slack;Email;PagerDuty;Webhooks;Performance data;Email reports;Request body & header fields;Distributed global checks;One click sign-on;Minute check resolution;Paste cURL commands
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
70.7K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
13.1K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
84
Stacks
18.4K
Stacks
7
Followers
86
Followers
14.6K
Followers
19
Votes
21
Votes
415
Votes
2
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 8
    Easy setup
  • 5
    Plugins
  • 3
    Affordable
  • 1
    Local Developer Tracing
  • 1
    Custom Scopes
Pros
  • 89
    Beautiful
  • 68
    Graphs are interactive
  • 57
    Free
  • 56
    Easy
  • 34
    Nicer than the Graphite web interface
Cons
  • 1
    No interactive query builder
Pros
  • 2
    So simple
Integrations
No integrations available
Graphite
Graphite
InfluxDB
InfluxDB
Slack
Slack
PagerDuty
PagerDuty

What are some alternatives to Scout, Grafana, Apex Ping?

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.

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!

Pingdom

Pingdom

Pingdom is an uptime monitoring service. When problems happen with a site that Pingdom monitors, it immediately alerts the owner so the problem can be taken care of.

Better Stack

Better Stack

Better Stack is a radically better infrastructure monitoring platform that calls the right person on your team if anything goes wrong. Schedule on-call duties, receive helpful alerts, and collaborate on solving incidents faster than ever.

Kibana

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.

Prometheus

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.

Raygun

Raygun

Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users with greater speed and accuracy.

Nagios

Nagios

Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.

AppSignal

AppSignal

AppSignal gives you and your team alerts and detailed metrics about your Ruby, Node.js or Elixir application. Sensible pricing, no aggressive sales & support by developers.

UptimeRobot

UptimeRobot

It is all about helping you to keep your websites up. It monitors your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if your sites are down.

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