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Nagios vs Zipkin: 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; Zipkin: A distributed tracing system. It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures. Features include both the collection and lookup of this data.
Nagios and Zipkin belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Nagios and Zipkin are both open source tools. Zipkin with 11.4K GitHub stars and 2.07K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Nagios with 60 GitHub stars and 36 GitHub forks.
Uber Technologies, Dropbox, and 9GAG are some of the popular companies that use Nagios, whereas Zipkin is used by Medidata Solutions, Bluestem Brands, and Finciero. Nagios has a broader approval, being mentioned in 223 company stacks & 309 developers stacks; compared to Zipkin, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 10 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- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point.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
Pros of Zipkin
- Open Source10
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