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  5. Bigpanda vs Kibana vs LogDNA

Bigpanda vs Kibana vs LogDNA

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Overview

Bigpanda
Bigpanda
Stacks21
Followers55
Votes16
Kibana
Kibana
Stacks20.6K
Followers16.4K
Votes262
GitHub Stars20.8K
Forks8.5K
LogDNA
LogDNA
Stacks97
Followers144
Votes18

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Advice on Bigpanda, Kibana, LogDNA

matteo1989it
matteo1989it

Jun 26, 2019

ReviewonKibanaKibanaGrafanaGrafanaElasticsearchElasticsearch

I use both Kibana and Grafana on my workplace: Kibana for logging and Grafana for monitoring. Since you already work with Elasticsearch, I think Kibana is the safest choice in terms of ease of use and variety of messages it can manage, while Grafana has still (in my opinion) a strong link to metrics

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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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abrahamfathman
abrahamfathman

Jun 26, 2019

ReviewonKibanaKibanaSplunkSplunkGrafanaGrafana

I use Kibana because it ships with the ELK stack. I don't find it as powerful as Splunk however it is light years above grepping through log files. We previously used Grafana but found it to be annoying to maintain a separate tool outside of the ELK stack. We were able to get everything we needed from Kibana.

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Detailed Comparison

Bigpanda
Bigpanda
Kibana
Kibana
LogDNA
LogDNA

Bigpanda helps you manage and respond to ops incidents faster. All your alerts: organized, assignable, trackable, snoozeable, and updated in real-time.

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.

The easiest log management system you will ever use! LogDNA is a cloud-based log management system that allows engineering and devops to aggregate all system and application logs into one efficient platform. Save, store, tail and search app

Issue tracking for ops;Reduce noisy alerts;Easy collaboration
Flexible analytics and visualization platform;Real-time summary and charting of streaming data;Intuitive interface for a variety of users;Instant sharing and embedding of dashboards
Aggregate Logs & Analyze Related Events;Easy Setup in Minutes;Powerful Search & Alerts;Save what you see as a View;Modern User Interface;Tail -f Like a Boss;Debug & Troubleshoot Faster
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
20.8K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
8.5K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
21
Stacks
20.6K
Stacks
97
Followers
55
Followers
16.4K
Followers
144
Votes
16
Votes
262
Votes
18
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 7
    User interface, easy setup, analytics, integrations
  • 6
    Consolidates many systems into one
  • 2
    Correlation engine
  • 1
    Quick setup
Pros
  • 88
    Easy to setup
  • 65
    Free
  • 45
    Can search text
  • 21
    Has pie chart
  • 13
    X-axis is not restricted to timestamp
Cons
  • 7
    Unintuituve
  • 4
    Works on top of elastic only
  • 4
    Elasticsearch is huge
  • 3
    Hardweight UI
Pros
  • 6
    Easy setup
  • 4
    Cheap
  • 3
    Extremely fast
  • 2
    Powerful filtering and alerting functionality
  • 1
    Graphing capabilities
Cons
  • 1
    Cannot copy & paste text from visualization
  • 1
    Limited visualization capabilities
Integrations
Nagios
Nagios
PagerDuty
PagerDuty
New Relic
New Relic
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch
Puppet Labs
Puppet Labs
Pingdom
Pingdom
Chef
Chef
Capistrano
Capistrano
Jenkins
Jenkins
Ansible
Ansible
Logstash
Logstash
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
Beats
Beats
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Bigpanda, Kibana, LogDNA?

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.

Papertrail

Papertrail

Papertrail helps detect, resolve, and avoid infrastructure problems using log messages. Papertrail's practicality comes from our own experience as sysadmins, developers, and entrepreneurs.

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.

Logmatic

Logmatic

Get a clear overview of what is happening across your distributed environments, and spot the needle in the haystack in no time. Build dynamic analyses and identify improvements for your software, your user experience and your business.

Loggly

Loggly

It is a SaaS solution to manage your log data. There is nothing to install and updates are automatically applied to your Loggly subdomain.

PagerDuty

PagerDuty

PagerDuty is an alarm aggregation and dispatching service for system administrators and support teams. It collects alerts from your monitoring tools, gives you an overall view of all of your monitoring alarms, and alerts an on duty engineer if there's a problem.

Logentries

Logentries

Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users.

Logstash

Logstash

Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.

Nagios

Nagios

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

Netdata

Netdata

Netdata collects metrics per second & presents them in low-latency dashboards. It's designed to run on all of your physical & virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters & edge/IoT devices, to monitor systems, containers & apps

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