Chronosphere vs Kibana

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Chronosphere vs Kibana: What are the differences?

Developers describe Chronosphere as "A cloud-native monitoring solution that combines metrics, alerting, and distributed tracing into one seamless experience". It provides a cloud-native monitoring solution that supercharges open source standard tools such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. It combines metrics, alerting, and distributed tracing into one seamless experience that heavily reduces both time to detection and time to mitigation, ensuring your business is up and running 24/7. Users rely on this platform to provide them with a sophisticated end-to-end solution where root causing an issue is one-click away. On the other hand, Kibana is detailed as "Explore & Visualize Your Data". Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.

Chronosphere belongs to "Cloud Monitoring" category of the tech stack, while Kibana can be primarily classified under "Monitoring Tools".

Some of the features offered by Chronosphere are:

  • Prometheus integration
  • One-click ingestion path
  • Runs across cloud providers

On the other hand, Kibana provides the following key features:

  • Flexible analytics and visualization platform
  • Real-time summary and charting of streaming data
  • Intuitive interface for a variety of users

Kibana is an open source tool with 14.8K GitHub stars and 5.94K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kibana's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Chronosphere
Pros of Kibana
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    • 88
      Easy to setup
    • 64
      Free
    • 45
      Can search text
    • 21
      Has pie chart
    • 13
      X-axis is not restricted to timestamp
    • 9
      Easy queries and is a good way to view logs
    • 6
      Supports Plugins
    • 4
      Dev Tools
    • 3
      Can build dashboards
    • 3
      More "user-friendly"
    • 2
      Out-of-Box Dashboards/Analytics for Metrics/Heartbeat
    • 2
      Easy to drill-down
    • 1
      Up and running

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    Cons of Chronosphere
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      • 6
        Unintuituve
      • 4
        Elasticsearch is huge
      • 3
        Hardweight UI
      • 3
        Works on top of elastic only

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      What is Chronosphere?

      It provides a cloud-native monitoring solution that supercharges open source standard tools such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. It combines metrics, alerting, and distributed tracing into one seamless experience that heavily reduces both time to detection and time to mitigation, ensuring your business is up and running 24/7. Users rely on this platform to provide them with a sophisticated end-to-end solution where root causing an issue is one-click away.

      What is Kibana?

      Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.

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