Grafana vs HostedMetrics: What are the differences?
What is Grafana? Open source Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor. 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.
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.
Grafana and HostedMetrics can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Grafana are:
- Create, edit, save & search dashboards
- Change column spans and row heights
- Drag and drop panels to rearrange
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
Grafana is an open source tool with 32K GitHub stars and 6.24K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Grafana's open source repository on GitHub.