Grafana vs Monit: What are the differences?
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; Monit: *A free, open-source process supervision tool *. It can monitor and manage distributed computer systems, conduct automatic maintenance and repair and execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
Grafana and Monit can be categorized 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, Monit provides the following key features:
- Responsive UI
- Control Services Remotely
- Services Monitoring modes
Grafana is an open source tool with 30.2K GitHub stars and 5.77K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Grafana's open source repository on GitHub.