collectd vs Sysdig: What are the differences?
collectd: 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; Sysdig: Open source container monitoring for all Linux container technologies, including Docker, LXC, etc. Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze
Sysdig is scriptable in Lua and includes a command line interface and a powerful interactive UI, csysdig, that runs in your terminal. Think of sysdig as strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + awesome sauce.
With state of the art container visibility on top..
collectd and Sysdig belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by collectd are:
On the other hand, Sysdig provides the following key features:
- Real-Time Dashboard
- Historical Replay
- Dynamic Topology
collectd and Sysdig are both open source tools. It seems that Sysdig with 5.7K GitHub stars and 530 forks on GitHub has more adoption than collectd with 2.26K GitHub stars and 1.08K GitHub forks.
