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Nagios vs OpenTracing: What are the differences?
Nagios: Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services. Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License; OpenTracing: Consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for distributed tracing and context propagation. Consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for distributed tracing and context propagation.
Nagios and OpenTracing belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Nagios and OpenTracing are both open source tools. It seems that OpenTracing with 1.82K GitHub stars and 175 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Nagios with 60 GitHub stars and 36 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Nagios has a broader approval, being mentioned in 177 company stacks & 40 developers stacks; compared to OpenTracing, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
- 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- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point.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.
Pros of Nagios
- It just works53
- The standard28
- Customizable12
- The Most flexible monitoring system8
- Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from1
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