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Ganglia vs Telegraf: What are the differences?
What is Ganglia? Scalable distributed monitoring system. Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters.
What is Telegraf? The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics. It is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics.
Ganglia and Telegraf belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Telegraf is an open source tool with 7.01K GitHub stars and 2.65K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Telegraf's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Ganglia
Pros of Telegraf
- One agent can work as multiple exporter with min hndlng5
- Cohesioned stack for monitoring5
- Open Source2
- Metrics2
- Supports custom plugins in any language1
- Many hundreds of plugins1