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Nagios vs Ruby Server Timing: 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; Ruby Server Timing: Brings Rails server-side performance metrics to Chrome's Developer Tools via the Server Timing API. Bring Ruby on Rails server-side performance metrics 📈 to Chrome's Developer Tools (and other browsers that support the Server Timing API) via the servertiming gem Metrics are collected from the scoutapm gem. A Scout account is not required..
Nagios and Ruby Server Timing can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Nagios and Ruby Server Timing are both open source tools. Ruby Server Timing with 495 GitHub stars and 6 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Nagios with 60 GitHub stars and 36 GitHub forks.
- 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- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point.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