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Chronograf vs Telegraf: What are the differences?

What is Chronograf? *It is the user interface and administrative component *. The complete interface. allows you to quickly see the data that you have stored, so you can build robust queries and alerts.

What is Telegraf? The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics. It is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics.

Chronograf and Telegraf belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.

Chronograf and Telegraf are both open source tools. It seems that Chronograf with 17.1K GitHub stars and 2.43K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Telegraf with 7.14K GitHub stars and 2.7K GitHub forks.

Zencom, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and SeatGeek are some of the popular companies that use Telegraf, whereas Chronograf is used by Zencom, Veris, and WinSocial. Telegraf has a broader approval, being mentioned in 17 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Chronograf, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Pros of Chronograf
Pros of Telegraf
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    Can build dashboards
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    Open Source
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    Easy
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    Free
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    It´s extremely compatible with Influxdb
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    One agent can work as multiple exporter with min hndlng
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    Cohesioned stack for monitoring
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    Open Source
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    Metrics
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    Supports custom plugins in any language
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    Many hundreds of plugins

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What is Chronograf?

The complete interface. allows you to quickly see the data that you have stored, so you can build robust queries and alerts.

What is Telegraf?

It is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics.

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    What are some alternatives to Chronograf and Telegraf?
    Grafana
    Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
    Prometheus
    Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
    Kibana
    Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
    Nagios
    Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.
    Zabbix
    Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
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