Monitorix vs StatsD

StatsD vs Monitorix: What are the differences?

What is StatsD? Simple daemon for easy stats aggregation. StatsD is a front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics server, originally written by Etsy's Erik Kastner. StatsD is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

What is Monitorix? An open source and lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under production Linux/UNIX servers, but due to its simplicity and small size can be used on embedded devices as well.

StatsD and Monitorix belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by StatsD are:

• buckets: Each stat is in its own "bucket". They are not predefined anywhere. Buckets can be named anything that will translate to Graphite (periods make folders, etc)
• values: Each stat will have a value. How it is interpreted depends on modifiers. In general values should be integer.
• flush: After the flush interval timeout (defined by config.flushInterval, default 10 seconds), stats are aggregated and sent to an upstream backend service.

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

• System load average and usage
• Global kernel usage
• Per-processor kernel usage

StatsD and Monitorix are both open source tools. It seems that StatsD with 14.3K GitHub stars and 1.84K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Monitorix with 683 GitHub stars and 136 GitHub forks.