collectd vs Splunk

collectd

Description: 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.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

Splunk

Description: Splunk is a software platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data via a web-style interface. It provides real-time operational intelligence that enables organizations to collect, index, and harness data from websites, applications, sensors, devices, and other systems.

Type: software

Pricing: Paid

collectd Features

• Plugin architecture allows collecting metrics from a variety of sources
• Built-in plugins for common system metrics like CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, network usage etc
• Can collect metrics from various applications and services like Apache, MySQL, Nginx, MongoDB etc via plugins
• Metrics can be collected at predefined intervals
• Collected metrics can be stored locally or sent to remote destinations
• Supports writing metrics to RRD files, CSV files, Graphite etc
• Can visualize metrics via plugins for Grafana, Graphite etc

Splunk Features

• Real-time log management and analysis
• Ability to ingest data from many sources
• Powerful search and reporting capabilities
• Visualizations and dashboards
• Alerting and notifications
• Anomaly detection
• Integration with other systems and tools

collectd

• Open Source

Splunk

• Paid