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  5. Munin vs Telegraf

Munin vs Telegraf

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Overview

Munin
Munin
Stacks71
Followers95
Votes10
GitHub Stars2.1K
Forks479
Telegraf
Telegraf
Stacks290
Followers321
Votes16
GitHub Stars16.4K
Forks5.7K

Munin vs Telegraf: What are the differences?

Munin: PnP networked resource monitoring tool that can help to answer the what just happened to kill our performance. 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; Telegraf: The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics. It is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics.

Munin and Telegraf can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.

Munin and Telegraf are both open source tools. Telegraf with 7.14K GitHub stars and 2.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Munin with 1.32K GitHub stars and 387 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Munin has a broader approval, being mentioned in 19 company stacks & 30 developers stacks; compared to Telegraf, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Munin
Munin
Telegraf
Telegraf

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.

It is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics.

Statistics
GitHub Stars
2.1K
GitHub Stars
16.4K
GitHub Forks
479
GitHub Forks
5.7K
Stacks
71
Stacks
290
Followers
95
Followers
321
Votes
10
Votes
16
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 3
    Good defaults
  • 2
    Adheres to traditional Linux standards
  • 2
    Alerts can trigger any command line program
  • 2
    Extremely fast to install
  • 1
    Easy to write custom plugins
Pros
  • 5
    Cohesioned stack for monitoring
  • 5
    One agent can work as multiple exporter with min hndlng
  • 2
    Metrics
  • 2
    Open Source
  • 1
    Supports custom plugins in any language

What are some alternatives to Munin, Telegraf?

Grafana

Grafana

Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.

Kibana

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.

Prometheus

Prometheus

Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.

Nagios

Nagios

Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.

Netdata

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

Zabbix

Zabbix

Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.

Sensu

Sensu

Sensu is the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline empowers businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain deep visibility into their multi-cloud environments.

Graphite

Graphite

Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand

Lumigo

Lumigo

Lumigo is an observability platform built for developers, unifying distributed tracing with payload data, log management, and real-time metrics to help you deeply understand and troubleshoot your systems.

StatsD

StatsD

It is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

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