Graphite
While Munin is nice because it is robust and fairly easy to start using, the graphs it provides are only updated once in a while, normally every fifth minute. There is therefore a niche for a tool that does graphing that is closer to real time. Graphite is such a tool.
The Graphite stack consists of the following three major parts. It is similar to both Ganglia and Munin but uses its own component implementations.
- The Graphite Web component, which is a web application that renders a user interface consisting of graphs and dashboards organized within a tree-like browser widget
- The Carbon metric processing daemon, which gathers the metrics
- The Whisper time series database library
As such, the Graphite stack is similar in utility to both Munin ...
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