cdist vs StatsD
A side-by-side look at cdist and StatsD. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
cdist
System & Hardware
cdist is an open source configuration management tool written in Python. It allows system administrators to define the configuration of servers and deploy it to multiple machines in parallel. cdist works by running small scripts called 'manifests' on remote hosts.
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StatsD
Network & Admin
StatsD is a network daemon for statistics aggregation and metric tracking. It listens for metrics over UDP or TCP, aggregates the metrics, and flushes them to backend services like Graphite.
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