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Hosted Graphite vs Sysdig: What are the differences?
What is Hosted Graphite? Graphite as a service. Hosted Graphite is the powerful open-source application metrics system used by hundreds of companies. We take away the headaches of scaling, maintenance, and upgrades and let you do what you do best - write great software.
What is Sysdig? Open source container monitoring for all Linux container technologies, including Docker, LXC, etc. Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze Sysdig is scriptable in Lua and includes a command line interface and a powerful interactive UI, csysdig, that runs in your terminal. Think of sysdig as strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + awesome sauce. With state of the art container visibility on top..
Hosted Graphite and Sysdig can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Hosted Graphite are:
- Dashboards- Standard Graphite and Tasseo dashboards out of the box
- Account Sharing- Allow team members to customise graphs and dashboards
- Access Keys- Export data to external monitoring systems, dashboards and alerting systems
On the other hand, Sysdig provides the following key features:
- Real-Time Dashboard
- Historical Replay
- Dynamic Topology
"Great customer support" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Hosted Graphite, while over 2 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Sysdig.
Sysdig is an open source tool with 5.7K GitHub stars and 530 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sysdig's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Hosted Graphite
- Great customer support4
- Custom metrics2
- Grafana dashboards2
- Event annotations1
- Alerting with lots of notification options1
- Great value1
- Lots of Integrations1
Pros of Sysdig
- Powerful web app5
- Easy setup5
- Monitoring5