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  5. Nagios vs NetData vs Sysdig

Nagios vs NetData vs Sysdig

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Overview

Nagios
Nagios
Stacks811
Followers1.1K
Votes102
GitHub Stars57
Forks38
Sysdig
Sysdig
Stacks80
Followers150
Votes15
GitHub Stars8.1K
Forks748
Netdata
Netdata
Stacks226
Followers392
Votes82

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Advice on Nagios, Sysdig, Netdata

Raja Subramaniam
Raja Subramaniam

Aug 27, 2019

Needs adviceonPrometheusPrometheusKubernetesKubernetesSysdigSysdig

We have Prometheus as a monitoring engine as a part of our stack which contains Kubernetes cluster, container images and other open source tools. Also, I am aware that Sysdig can be integrated with Prometheus but I really wanted to know whether Sysdig or sysdig+prometheus will make better monitoring solution.

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Matthias
Matthias

Teamlead IT at NanoTemper Technologies

Jun 11, 2020

Decided
  • free open source
  • modern interface and architecture
  • large community
  • extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
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Detailed Comparison

Nagios
Nagios
Sysdig
Sysdig
Netdata
Netdata

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

Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Sysdig is scriptable in Lua and includes a command line interface and a powerful interactive UI, csysdig, that runs in your terminal. Think of sysdig as strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + awesome sauce. With state of the art container visibility on top.

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

Monitor your entire IT infrastructure;Spot problems before they occur;Know immediately when problems arise;Share availability data with stakeholders;Detect security breaches;Plan and budget for IT upgrades;Reduce downtime and business losses
Real-Time Dashboard; Historical Replay; Dynamic Topology; Intelligent Alerting
Free, open-source; Easy installation and configuration; Access to monitoring unlimited metrics; Prebuilt dashboards and alarms; alerts on any metric, for a single host, an entire cluster, or your entire infrastructure; Tools for team collaboration; 800+ integrations
Statistics
GitHub Stars
57
GitHub Stars
8.1K
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Forks
38
GitHub Forks
748
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
811
Stacks
80
Stacks
226
Followers
1.1K
Followers
150
Followers
392
Votes
102
Votes
15
Votes
82
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 53
    It just works
  • 28
    The standard
  • 12
    Customizable
  • 8
    The Most flexible monitoring system
  • 1
    Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from
Pros
  • 5
    Easy setup
  • 5
    Monitoring
  • 5
    Powerful web app
Pros
  • 17
    Free
  • 14
    Easy setup
  • 12
    Graphs are interactive
  • 9
    Well maintained on github
  • 9
    Montiors datasbases
Integrations
No integrations available
Docker
Docker
Puppet Labs
Puppet Labs
CouchDB
CouchDB
ActiveMQ
ActiveMQ
Logstash
Logstash
Fail2ban
Fail2ban
TimescaleDB
TimescaleDB
Windows
Windows
Grafana
Grafana
MongoDB
MongoDB
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ

What are some alternatives to Nagios, Sysdig, Netdata?

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.

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).

Jaeger

Jaeger

Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing System

Telegraf

Telegraf

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.

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