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 ...
