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Icinga vs RRDtool: What are the differences?
Icinga: A resilient, open source monitoring system. It monitors availability and performance, gives you simple access to relevant data and raises alerts to keep you in the loop. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application; RRDtool: High performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. RRDtool lets you log and analyze the data you gather from all kinds of data-sources (DS). The data analysis part of RRDtool is based on the ability to quickly generate graphical representations of the data values collected over a definable time period.
Icinga and RRDtool can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
RRDtool is an open source tool with 578 GitHub stars and 200 GitHub forks. Here's a link to RRDtool's open source repository on GitHub.
- free open source
- modern interface and architecture
- large community
- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
Pros of Icinga
Pros of RRDtool
- Do one thing and do it well6
