Monitoror vs Grafana: What are the differences?
Developers describe Monitoror as "Unified monitoring wallboard". It is a wallboard monitoring app to monitor server status; monitor CI builds progress or even display critical values. On the other hand, Grafana is detailed 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.
Monitoror and Grafana can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Monitoror are:
- Monitor all your tools in one place, one screen
- Shape the wallboard how it fits you the most
- Clear and readable overview
On the other hand, Grafana provides the following key features:
- Create, edit, save & search dashboards
- Change column spans and row heights
- Drag and drop panels to rearrange
Grafana is an open source tool with 33.7K GitHub stars and 6.68K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Grafana's open source repository on GitHub.