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Glances vs HostedMetrics: What are the differences?
What is Glances? 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.
What is HostedMetrics? Hosted and managed open-source monitoring tools. Hosted and fully managed versions of the popular open-source monitoring tools Grafana, Prometheus, and InfluxDB, packaged as turnkey solutions for application, infrastructure, and IoT monitoring.
Glances and HostedMetrics can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Glances are:
- Cross-platform
- System monitoring tool
- Web UI
On the other hand, HostedMetrics provides the following key features:
- Instant Start
- Collect and make use of metrics without the hassle of running, scaling, and maintaining a metrics platform
- Reduces costs by offering sensibly pre-configured, productive, hosted and managed tools to collect and visualize the metrics that you need to understand your systems, processes, and code
Glances is an open source tool with 16.5K GitHub stars and 1.08K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Glances's open source repository on GitHub.