collectd vs StatsD
A side-by-side look at collectd and StatsD. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
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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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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