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by danielneri 2867 days ago
This is neat, but niche monitoring tools often lose out when trying to capture multiple infrastructure/application/business metrics and chart them in a single place. Toolsets like Grafana & a backing DB (Influx, Graphite, etc.) or a service like DataDog or New Relic tend to win out for larger deployments.

NetData looks great, though!

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I posted this above, but you can get netdata metrics into graphite,opentsdb,prometeheus,etc formats for those databases with minimal work. In that setup netdata is basically a collection agent reporting to whatever database Grafana is reading from.

https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/netdata-backends

The cost of infrastructure monitoring is an instant blocker for my work, but if you are a large profitable company with a huge deployment, then yeah netdata probably isn't the right tool for the job

With 30k github stars and all those (automatic) integrations, including the backing databases you mentioned, it doesn't seem that niche.