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OpenTracing vs StatsD: What are the differences?
OpenTracing: Consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for distributed tracing and context propagation. Consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for distributed tracing and context propagation; StatsD: Simple daemon for easy stats aggregation. StatsD is a front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics server, originally written by Etsy's Erik Kastner. StatsD is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).
OpenTracing and StatsD can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
OpenTracing and StatsD are both open source tools. StatsD with 14.2K GitHub stars and 1.83K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than OpenTracing with 1.82K GitHub stars and 175 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, StatsD has a broader approval, being mentioned in 72 company stacks & 16 developers stacks; compared to OpenTracing, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
Pros of OpenTracing
Pros of StatsD
- Open source9
- Single responsibility7
- Efficient wire format5
- Handles aggregation3
- Loads of integrations3
- Many implementations1
- Scales well1
- Simple to use1
- NodeJS1
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Cons of OpenTracing
Cons of StatsD
- No authentication; cannot be used over Internet1
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