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  5. Nagios vs Shinken vs Stackify

Nagios vs Shinken vs Stackify

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Overview

Stackify
Stackify
Stacks113
Followers69
Votes56
Nagios
Nagios
Stacks811
Followers1.1K
Votes102
GitHub Stars57
Forks38
Shinken
Shinken
Stacks17
Followers39
Votes0

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Advice on Stackify, Nagios, Shinken

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  • extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point.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

Stackify
Stackify
Nagios
Nagios
Shinken
Shinken

Stackify offers the only developers-friendly innovative cloud based solution that fully integrates application performance management (APM) with error and log. Allowing them to easily monitor, detect and resolve application issues faster

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

Shinken's main goal is to give users a flexible architecture for their monitoring system that is designed to scale to large environments. Shinken is backwards-compatible with the Nagios configuration standard and plugins. It works on any operating system and architecture that supports Python, which includes Windows, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.

Application Performance Management (APM), Custom metrics, Log management. Application monitoring;Server Monitoring;DB & queries monitoring;Queues monitoring;Auto-discovery of new apps;Alerts;App Status Alerts;Email & SMS notification;Escalation rules;Errors aggregation, errors reporting;Alerts, trends;App reporting;Log Files aggregation & appending.Tail and search app & IIS logs;Windows event viewer;Remote secure Access;Access server logs, files, configurations;Role based access;Audit & reporting;App Metrics;Monitor performance counters;Custom Metrics via API;Monitor JVM mBeans;Application Performance;Track web page performance;Utilizing custom metrics to track performance of anything;
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
Easy to install : install is mainly done with pip but some packages are available (deb / rpm) and we are planning to provide nightly build; Easy for new users : once installed, Shinken provide a simple command line interface to install new module and packs; Easy to migrate from Nagios : we want Nagios configuration and plugins to work in Shinken so that it is a “in place” replacement; Plugins provide great flexibility and are a big legacy codebase to use. It would be a shame not to use all this community work Multi-platform : python is available in a lot of OS. We try to write generic code to keep this possible; Utf8 compliant : python is here to do that. For now Shinken is compatible with 2.6-2.7 version but python 3.X is even more character encoding friendly; Independent from other monitoring solution : our goal is to provide a modular tool that can integrate with others through standard interfaces). Flexibility first; Flexible : in an architecture point view. It is very close to our scalability wish. Cloud computing is make architecture moving a lot, we have to fit to it; Fun to code : python ensure good code readability. Adding code should not be a pain when developing;
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GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
57
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
38
GitHub Forks
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Stacks
113
Stacks
811
Stacks
17
Followers
69
Followers
1.1K
Followers
39
Votes
56
Votes
102
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 8
    Error tracking
  • 7
    Easy setup
  • 7
    Log management
  • 7
    Monitoring
  • 6
    Alerting
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
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Integrations
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Slack
Slack
Jira
Jira
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps
No integrations availableNo integrations available

What are some alternatives to Stackify, Nagios, Shinken?

New Relic

New Relic

The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.

Datadog

Datadog

Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!

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.

Raygun

Raygun

Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users with greater speed and accuracy.

AppSignal

AppSignal

AppSignal gives you and your team alerts and detailed metrics about your Ruby, Node.js or Elixir application. Sensible pricing, no aggressive sales & support by developers.

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

AppDynamics

AppDynamics

AppDynamics develops application performance management (APM) solutions that deliver problem resolution for highly distributed applications through transaction flow monitoring and deep diagnostics.

Zabbix

Zabbix

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

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