Cacti vs collectd
A side-by-side look at Cacti and collectd. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Cacti
Network & Admin
Cacti is an open-source network monitoring and graphing tool that provides easy monitoring of network devices and servers. It polls devices for utilization data, stores the data, and generates graphs and statistics to help analyze network traffic and utilization.
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collectd
System & Hardware
collectd is an open source system statistics collection daemon. It collects system performance statistics periodically and provides methods to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.
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