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Munin vs NetData: What are the differences?

  1. Data Collection and Storage: Munin collects data using plugins that run at regular intervals and stores the data in RRD files, while NetData operates as a standalone monitoring tool with an embedded web server collecting data using its own metrics collector.
  2. Ease of Installation: Munin requires manual configuration of plugins and service installation, whereas NetData offers automatic detection of services and plugins, making the installation process more user-friendly and streamlined.
  3. Real-time Monitoring: NetData provides real-time monitoring capabilities, displaying data with minimal delay, whereas Munin offers historical data analysis, providing insights into trends over time but with a slight delay due to its data collection intervals.
  4. User Interface: NetData features a visually appealing, interactive dashboard with customizable options for data visualization, while Munin has a more traditional, straightforward interface design with limited customization options.
  5. Community Support: NetData has a vibrant and active community with regular updates and a growing number of contributors, while Munin, although established and reliable, has a smaller user base and less frequent updates.
  6. Resource Usage: NetData is known for its lightweight nature and low resource consumption, suitable for monitoring systems with limited resources, whereas Munin may require more resources due to its data storage method and data processing.

In Summary, Munin and NetData differ in terms of data collection and storage, ease of installation, real-time monitoring capabilities, user interface design, community support, and resource usage.

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Pros of Munin
Pros of Netdata
  • 3
    Good defaults
  • 2
    Extremely fast to install
  • 2
    Alerts can trigger any command line program
  • 2
    Adheres to traditional Linux standards
  • 1
    Easy to write custom plugins
  • 17
    Free
  • 14
    Easy setup
  • 12
    Graphs are interactive
  • 9
    Montiors datasbases
  • 9
    Well maintained on github
  • 8
    Monitors nginx, redis, logs
  • 4
    Can submit metrics to Time Series databases
  • 3
    Open source
  • 2
    Easy Alert Setop
  • 2
    Netdata is also a statsd server
  • 1
    Written in C
  • 1
    GPLv3
  • 0
    Zabbix

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What is Munin?

Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.

What is Netdata?

Netdata collects metrics per second & presents them in low-latency dashboards. It's designed to run on all of your physical & virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters & edge/IoT devices, to monitor systems, containers & apps

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What are some alternatives to Munin and Netdata?
Cacti
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
Nagios
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.
Ganglia
It is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters.
collectd
collectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information. Those statistics can then be used to find current performance bottlenecks (i.e. performance analysis) and predict future system load (i.e. capacity planning). Or if you just want pretty graphs of your private server and are fed up with some homegrown solution you're at the right place, too.
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