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Packetbeat vs PRTG: What are the differences?

What is Packetbeat? Open Source application monitoring & packet tracing system. Packetbeat agents sniff the traffic between your application processes, parse on the fly protocols like HTTP, MySQL, Postgresql or REDIS and correlate the messages into transactions.

What is PRTG? A powerful & easy network monitoring software. It can monitor and classify system conditions like bandwidth usage or uptime and collect statistics from miscellaneous hosts as switches, routers, servers and other devices and applications.

Packetbeat and PRTG can be categorized as "Network Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Packetbeat are:

  • Packetbeat Statistics: Contains high-level views like the network topology, the application layer protocols repartition, the response times repartition, and others
  • Packetbeat Search: This page enables you to do full text searches over the indexed network messages
  • Packetbeat Query Analysis: This page demonstrates more advanced statistics like the top N slow SQL queries, the database throughput or the most common MySQL erro

On the other hand, PRTG provides the following key features:

  • FLEXIBLE ALERTING
  • MULTIPLE USER INTERFACES
  • CLUSTER FAILOVER SOLUTION

Packetbeat is an open source tool with 7.65K GitHub stars and 2.61K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Packetbeat's open source repository on GitHub.

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    Works well with ELK stack
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        Poor search capabilities
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        Graphs are static
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      What is Packetbeat?

      Packetbeat agents sniff the traffic between your application processes, parse on the fly protocols like HTTP, MySQL, Postgresql or REDIS and correlate the messages into transactions.

      What is PRTG?

      It can monitor and classify system conditions like bandwidth usage or uptime and collect statistics from miscellaneous hosts as switches, routers, servers and other devices and applications.

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