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Munin vs Circonus: What are the differences?
What is Munin? PnP networked resource monitoring tool that can help to answer the what just happened to kill our performance. Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.
What is Circonus? Hacker-grade monitoring and analytics platform made for engineer. It provides your team the tools, support and insight to deliver the best online experience for your customer.
Munin and Circonus can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
Munin is an open source tool with 1.34K GitHub stars and 389 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Munin's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Circonus
Pros of Munin
- Good defaults3
- Extremely fast to install2
- Alerts can trigger any command line program2
- Adheres to traditional Linux standards2
- Easy to write custom plugins1