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Blueflood vs HostedMetrics: What are the differences?
What is Blueflood? A distributed system designed to ingest and process time series data. It is a high throughput, low latency, multi-tenant distributed metric processing system behind Rackspace Metrics, which is currently used in production by the Rackspace Monitoring team and Rackspace Public Cloud team to store metrics generated by their systems.
What is HostedMetrics? Hosted and managed open-source monitoring tools. Hosted and fully managed versions of the popular open-source monitoring tools Grafana, Prometheus, and InfluxDB, packaged as turnkey solutions for application, infrastructure, and IoT monitoring.
Blueflood and HostedMetrics can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Blueflood are:
- Ingestion
- Query
- Rollup
On the other hand, HostedMetrics provides the following key features:
- Instant Start
- Collect and make use of metrics without the hassle of running, scaling, and maintaining a metrics platform
- Reduces costs by offering sensibly pre-configured, productive, hosted and managed tools to collect and visualize the metrics that you need to understand your systems, processes, and code
Blueflood is an open source tool with 591 GitHub stars and 94 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Blueflood's open source repository on GitHub.
