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Vector: On-host performance monitoring framework which exposes hand picked high resolution metrics to every engineer’s browser, by Netflix. Vector provides a simple way for users to visualize and analyze system and application-level metrics in near real-time. It leverages the battle tested open source system monitoring framework, Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), layering on top a flexible and user-friendly UI. The UI polls metrics at up to 1 second resolution, rendering the data in completely configurable dashboards that simplify cross-metric correlation and analysis; Wavefront: Unified Cloud Monitoring with Real-Time Analytics. Enterprise-grade cloud monitoring and analytics at over 1 million data points per second. Reduce downtime. Boost performance. Be at the Wavefront.

Vector and Wavefront can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Vector is an open source tool with 3.17K GitHub stars and 230 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vector's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is Vector?

    Vector provides a simple way for users to visualize and analyze system and application-level metrics in near real-time. It leverages the battle tested open source system monitoring framework, Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), layering on top a flexible and user-friendly UI. The UI polls metrics at up to 1 second resolution, rendering the data in completely configurable dashboards that simplify cross-metric correlation and analysis.

    What is Wavefront?

    Enterprise-grade cloud monitoring and analytics at over 1 million data points per second. Reduce downtime. Boost performance. Be at the Wavefront.

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