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Pros of Beats
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    • 89
      Beautiful
    • 68
      Graphs are interactive
    • 57
      Free
    • 56
      Easy
    • 34
      Nicer than the Graphite web interface
    • 26
      Many integrations
    • 18
      Can build dashboards
    • 10
      Easy to specify time window
    • 10
      Can collaborate on dashboards
    • 9
      Dashboards contain number tiles
    • 5
      Open Source
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      Integration with InfluxDB
    • 5
      Click and drag to zoom in
    • 4
      Authentification and users management
    • 4
      Threshold limits in graphs
    • 3
      Alerts
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      It is open to cloud watch and many database
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      Simple and native support to Prometheus
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      Great community support
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      You can use this for development to check memcache
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      You can visualize real time data to put alerts
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      Grapsh as code
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      Plugin visualizationa

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    Cons of Beats
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        No interactive query builder

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      What is Beats?

      Beats is the platform for single-purpose data shippers. They send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch.

      What is Grafana?

      Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.

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