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Dropwizard Metrics vs Nagios: What are the differences?
Dropwizard Metrics: Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. It is a Java library which gives you insight into what your code does in production. It provides a powerful toolkit of ways to measure the behavior of critical components in your production environment. It provides you with full-stack visibility; Nagios: Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services. Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.
Dropwizard Metrics and Nagios can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Dropwizard Metrics and Nagios are both open source tools. Dropwizard Metrics with 6.64K GitHub stars and 1.64K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Nagios with 60 GitHub stars and 36 GitHub forks.
Uber Technologies, Dropbox, and 9GAG are some of the popular companies that use Nagios, whereas Dropwizard Metrics is used by Yammer, Auto Trader, and LeanIX. Nagios has a broader approval, being mentioned in 223 company stacks & 309 developers stacks; compared to Dropwizard Metrics, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
- free open source
- modern interface and architecture
- large community
- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
Pros of Dropwizard Metrics
Pros of Nagios
- It just works53
- The standard28
- Customizable12
- The Most flexible monitoring system8
- Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from1
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