Grafana vs Ward: 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 Ward? Minimalistic Server Dashboard. It is a simple and and minimalistic server monitoring tool. It supports adaptive design system. Also it supports dark theme. It shows only principal information and can be used, if you want to see nice looking dashboard instead looking on bunch of numbers and graphs.
Grafana and Ward 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, Ward provides the following key features:
- Processor utilization percentage
- Processor cores count (Logical and physical ones)
- Maximum frequency of the processor
Grafana is an open source tool with 35.9K GitHub stars and 7.2K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Grafana's open source repository on GitHub.