2 years ago

If you know anything about upholding the three pillars of observability for your business then you will know that centrally analysing and managing logs, metrics and traces is vital for improving how you observe the status of your business’s key infrastructure components. Monitoring metrics is one of the most cost-efficient elements of this environment to manage and organisations are increasingly turning to track and monitor metrics to better manage costs as the resources taken up by this data type is a lot less than with typical log retention. In this post, we’ll look at some of the best free and open-source tools for managing metrics today. The open-source monitoring tool offered by Zabbix is built for collecting and displaying basic metrics from networks, servers, virtual machines and cloud services.

Graphite is an open-source tool that monitors, collects, stores and displays time-series metrics in real-time.