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Parameters\Tools | Collectd | Ceilometer | Monasca | statsd | node-exporter and other exporters | sensu | munin | telegraf | nagios | diamond | centreon | icinga | OpenNMS | NSClient++ | Elastic Beats | Reimann | Note: 1. For some parameters the answer could be just YES/NO, 2. Whereas, for some we may have to provide a description/details 3. For some we may have to choose from the list [], whereas for some we may append a value to the list. 4. For some parameters, please provide the number of 'actual metrics' provided under that category. For example, collectd would provide 12 metrics for Processes-category Use NA - If Not applicable. Use NK - If it is Not Known | |
| Lowest Sampling Interval1 sec | can go down to a nano second resolution | |||||||||||||||||
| CPU metrics | idle, system, wait, stolen, user (% & time), util, vcpus | idle, system, wait, stolen, user (% & time), util, vcpus | idle, system, wait, stolen, user (% & time) | idle, system, wait, stolen, user (% & time), util, vcpus | Same as ceilometer or monasca | idle, system, wait, user, nice | ||||||||||||
| Disk IO metrics | read and write (bytes, rate, req) | read and write (bytes, rate, req) | read and write (bytes, rate, req) | Same as ceilometer or monasca | read and write (bytes, rate, req) | |||||||||||||
| Memory metrics | usage, bandwidth | free, swap, total, used | free, swap, total, used | Same as ceilometer or monasca | free, total, swap, active, dirty, inactive, buffers. | |||||||||||||
| Process metrics | IO, SCHED, STATS | btime, ctxt, processes, blocked, running | ||||||||||||||||
| Network Interface Metrics | Interface plugin: Standard 4 fields of rx/tx (octets, packets, errors, dropped). Netlink plugin: uses netlink sockets and covers others | Standard 4 fields of rx/tx (octets, packets, errors, dropped). | Standard 4 fields of rx/tx (octets, packets, errors, dropped). | Standard 4 fields of rx/tx (octets, packets, errors, dropped). | Same as ceilometer or monasca | Rx and Tx. MBs | ||||||||||||
| Libvirt Metrics | YES - | YES | NO | YES | ||||||||||||||
| Container resource usage Monitoring | YES | NO | NO | Docker | Docker | Docker | ||||||||||||
| Databases Support Writing to and Monitoring : [Influxdb, MongoDb, MySql, PostgreSql, Carbon(graphite), Prometheus, RRDCache,Redis, TSDB] | YES for all | MySql, PostgreSql, MongoDb - monitoring | Influxdb, Vertica, MySql, PostgreSql, Cassandra - monitoring | Monitoring only | Writing - Influxdb Monitoring - All. | Monitoring - All | ||||||||||||
| Encryption Support | YES | NO | NO | NO | YES | |||||||||||||
| Extensibility - multilanguage support [Python, Java, Golang, C/C++, Lua] | YES for all | Java | Java | Java, Python | ||||||||||||||
| Interoperability [with other monitoring solutions] | Sensu, statsd, telegraf? | Nagios zabbix | ceilometer | Collectd | Nagios | |||||||||||||
| Write to Message Queues and protocols (AMQP, Kafka, MQTT, NSQ) | YES for ALL | AMQP | Kafka | NO | kafka, MQTT, NSQ | |||||||||||||
| Metrics Pub/sub Mode Support | YES | YES | YES | |||||||||||||||
| Metrics Res/Resp Mode Support | ||||||||||||||||||
| Support for Events (polling, Pushing) | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Notification Support | YES | YES | YES | NO | ||||||||||||||
| Logging Support | YES | YES | YES | YES | ||||||||||||||
| Hypervisor metrics | YES | YES | ||||||||||||||||
| Log-File Analysis | YES | NO | NO | |||||||||||||||
| Other Writing Support: [CSV, HTTP, RRD, UnixSocket] | ALL that are listed. | |||||||||||||||||
| Transport Protocol | Depends on the end point it's communicating with | TCP, UDP | ||||||||||||||||
| Data-Format [XML, JSON, etc] | JSON, Custom, XML | JSON XML | JSON | Custom | ||||||||||||||
| Data-model | Custom | KVP | KVP | Custom | ||||||||||||||
| Hardware: IPMI, Battery, Sensors, | YES for all | IPMI | IPMI | |||||||||||||||
| Metric Types: Guage, Derive, Counter, absolute | YES for all | Guage cumulative delta | ||||||||||||||||
| Language (written) | C | Python | Python | Go | ||||||||||||||
| Last-Updated | 2017 | 2017 | 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| Commercial Versions? | NO | ? | No | |||||||||||||||
| Resource consumption by the agent | ||||||||||||||||||
| License | MIT/GPL v2 or later | Apache License, Version 2.0 | Apache License, Version 2.0 | |||||||||||||||
| Webserver monitoring [Nginix, Apache] | YES for all | Apache | Apache | Nginix, Apache, Passenger varnish | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms - OS? | Supports windows, linux, freebsd... | Linux | Linux | |||||||||||||||
| Configuration Tool support [Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt] | YES for all | Puppet Chef | ||||||||||||||||
| Server-mode support? | YES | |||||||||||||||||
| Other Services Support | statsd, webhooks | |||||||||||||||||
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