Grafana vs Kamon: What are the differences?
Developers describe Grafana as "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. On the other hand, Kamon is detailed as "A set of tools for instrumenting applications running on the JVM". It provides a set of tools to go from zero to a healthy and observable production deployment.
Grafana and Kamon 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, Kamon provides the following key features:
- Core API
- Automation instrumentation
- Reporters
Grafana is an open source tool with 30.7K GitHub stars and 5.88K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Grafana's open source repository on GitHub.