Monit vs Statsite: What are the differences?
Developers describe Monit as "*A free, open-source process supervision tool *". It can monitor and manage distributed computer systems, conduct automatic maintenance and repair and execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. On the other hand, Statsite is detailed as "C implementation of statsd". Statsite is a metrics aggregation server. Statsite is based heavily on Etsy's StatsD https://github.com/etsy/statsd, and is wire compatible.
Monit and Statsite can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Monit are:
- Responsive UI
- Control Services Remotely
- Services Monitoring modes
On the other hand, Statsite provides the following key features:
- Multiple metric types
- Efficient summary metrics for timer data
- Dynamic set implementation
Statsite is an open source tool with 1.74K GitHub stars and 241 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Statsite's open source repository on GitHub.