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Parameters\Tools

CollectdCeilometerMonascastatsdnode-exporter and other exporterssensumunintelegrafnagiosdiamondcentreonicingaOpenNMSNSClient++Elastic BeatsReimannNote:
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               
CPU metricsidle, system, wait, stolen, user (% & time), util, vcpusidle, system, wait, stolen, user (% & time), util, vcpusidle, 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, bandwidthfree, swap, total, used free, swap, total, used  Same as ceilometer or monasca  free, total, swap, active, dirty, inactive, buffers.      
Process metricsIO, SCHED, STATS         btime, ctxt, processes, blocked, running      
Network Interface MetricsInterface 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 MetricsYES -    YES  NO  YES      
Container resource usage MonitoringYESNONO Docker  Docker  Docker      
Databases Support Writing to Databases Supportand 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  Yes

Writing - Influxdb

Monitoring - All

for all

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  Monitoring - All      
Encryption SupportYESNONO NO     YES      
Extensibility - multilanguage support [Python, Java, Golang, C/C++, Lua]YES for allJavaJava 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 ALLAMQPKafka NO  

kafka,

MQTT,

NSQ

        
Metrics Pub/sub Mode SupportYESYESYES             
Metrics Res/Resp Mode Support                 
Support for Events (polling, Pushing)                
Notification SupportYESYESYES NO           
Logging Support YESYESYES YES           
Hypervisor metricsYES   YES           
Log-File AnalysisYESNONO             
Other Writing Support:
[CSV, HTTP, RRD, UnixSocket]
                
Transport Protocol       

TCP, UDP

        
 Data-Format
[XML, JSON, etc]
JSON, Custom, XMLJSON XMLJSON    Custom        
Data-modelCustomKVPKVP    Custom        
Hardware:
IPMI, Battery, Sensors, 
YES for allIPMIIPMI             
Metric Types: Guage, Derive, Counter, absoluteYES for allGuage cumulative delta              
Language (written)CPythonPython    Go        
Last-Updated 20172017             
Commercial Versions? NO?    No        
Resource consumption by the agent                
License Apache License, Version 2.0 Apache License, Version 2.0              
Webserver monitoring
[Nginix, Apache]
YES for allApacheApache Nginix, Apache, Passenger varnish           
Platforms - OS? LinuxLinux             
Configuration Tool support [Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt]YES for allPuppet Chef              
Server-mode support?YES               
Other Services Support       statsd, webhooks          

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