OpenTracing vs RRDtool

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OpenTracing vs RRDtool: What are the differences?

What is OpenTracing? Consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for distributed tracing and context propagation. Consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for distributed tracing and context propagation.

What is RRDtool? High performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. RRDtool lets you log and analyze the data you gather from all kinds of data-sources (DS). The data analysis part of RRDtool is based on the ability to quickly generate graphical representations of the data values collected over a definable time period.

OpenTracing and RRDtool can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.

OpenTracing and RRDtool are both open source tools. OpenTracing with 1.82K GitHub stars and 175 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than RRDtool with 571 GitHub stars and 199 GitHub forks.

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    What is OpenTracing?

    Consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for distributed tracing and context propagation.

    What is RRDtool?

    RRDtool lets you log and analyze the data you gather from all kinds of data-sources (DS). The data analysis part of RRDtool is based on the ability to quickly generate graphical representations of the data values collected over a definable time period.

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