Grafana vs Monitorix: 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 Monitorix? An open source and lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under production Linux/UNIX servers, but due to its simplicity and small size can be used on embedded devices as well.
Grafana and Monitorix 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, Monitorix provides the following key features:
- System load average and usage
- Global kernel usage
- Per-processor kernel usage
Grafana and Monitorix are both open source tools. It seems that Grafana with 30.7K GitHub stars and 5.88K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Monitorix with 683 GitHub stars and 136 GitHub forks.