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Graphite vs Monitor in a Box: What are the differences?
What is Graphite? A highly scalable real-time graphing system. Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand.
What is Monitor in a Box? Instantly usable, open source monitoring. Collect and maintain a history of both application performance and infrastructure health metrics.
Graphite and Monitor in a Box can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Graphite and Monitor in a Box are both open source tools. Graphite with 4.59K GitHub stars and 1.2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Monitor in a Box with 93 GitHub stars and 16 GitHub forks.
Looking for a tool which can be used for mainly dashboard purposes, but here are the main requirements:
- Must be able to get custom data from AS400,
- Able to display automation test results,
- System monitoring / Nginx API,
- Able to get data from 3rd parties DB.
Grafana is almost solving all the problems, except AS400 and no database to get automation test results.
You can look out for Prometheus Instrumentation (https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/instrumentation/) Client Library available in various languages https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/ to create the custom metric you need for AS4000 and then Grafana can query the newly instrumented metric to show on the dashboard.
Pros of Graphite
- Render any graph16
- Great functions to apply on timeseries9
- Well supported integrations8
- Includes event tracking6
- Rolling aggregation makes storage managable3
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