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Glances vs collectd: What are the differences?

Developers describe Glances as "A cross-platform monitoring tool". It is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a maximum of information in a minimum of space through a curses or Web based interface. It can adapt dynamically the displayed information depending on the terminal size. On the other hand, collectd is detailed as "System and applications metrics collector". collectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information. Those statistics can then be used to find current performance bottlenecks (i.e. performance analysis) and predict future system load (i.e. capacity planning). Or if you just want pretty graphs of your private server and are fed up with some homegrown solution you're at the right place, too.

Glances and collectd can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Glances are:

  • Cross-platform
  • System monitoring tool
  • Web UI

On the other hand, collectd provides the following key features:

  • fast
  • simple
  • integrated

Glances and collectd are both open source tools. Glances with 16.5K GitHub stars and 1.08K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than collectd with 2.49K GitHub stars and 1.16K GitHub forks.

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    What is collectd?

    collectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information. Those statistics can then be used to find current performance bottlenecks (i.e. performance analysis) and predict future system load (i.e. capacity planning). Or if you just want pretty graphs of your private server and are fed up with some homegrown solution you're at the right place, too.

    What is Glances?

    It is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a maximum of information in a minimum of space through a curses or Web based interface. It can adapt dynamically the displayed information depending on the terminal size.

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