PRTG vs Riemann: What are the differences?

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; Riemann: A network monitoring system. Riemann aggregates events from your servers and applications with a powerful stream processing language. Send an email for every exception in your app. Track the latency distribution of your web app. See the top processes on any host, by memory and CPU.

PRTG and Riemann belong to "Network Monitoring" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by PRTG are:

• FLEXIBLE ALERTING
• MULTIPLE USER INTERFACES
• CLUSTER FAILOVER SOLUTION

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

• See your system at a glance with a Sinatra app
• Throttle or roll up multiple events into a single message
• Forward any event stream to Graphite

Riemann is an open source tool with 3.79K GitHub stars and 511 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Riemann's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Riemann has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to PRTG, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.