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Ganglia vs Shinken

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

Ganglia

Ganglia

Network & Admin

Ganglia is an open-source monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and grids. It collects and visualizes various metrics like CPU utilization, memory usage, network traffic etc. in real-time. It allows for easy identification of bottlenecks and faults in distributed systems.

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Shinken

Shinken

Network & Admin

Shinken is an open-source monitoring framework that is compatible with Nagios configuration and plugins. It is designed to scale to large environments with thousands of hosts and services. Shinken leverages distributed architecture to improve performance over Nagios.

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