![]() Some of our customers have even written their own plugins for Telegraf. This is evidenced by the number of plugins that have been contributed by the community. Telegraf is officially supported by InfluxData, but the project also has impressive community support. The number of plugins has grown from 18 to 80 since last August. However, over the last year, Telegraf’s popularity has exploded. There’s no doubt that many large enterprises use Collectd to monitor production systems which makes it a safe choice (although you’ll want to vet your plugins more on this later).Ī year ago, it wouldn’t have made much sense to compare Telegraf and Collectd. While there’s no official corporate sponsor that I’m aware of, there’s many unofficial sponsors, including some monitoring vendors whom actively contribute plugins for Collectd. But browsing the activity on github shows that it is still active. Its modular design has made it possible for developers to create over 100 plugins for Collectd spanning many different applications and use cases.Ģ005 was a long time ago for an open source project. It is a lightweight daemon written in C that’s small enough to run on embedded devices. ![]() The fact that Collectd has been around since 2005 is a testament to the community and the original design by Florian Forster. While there are many other similarities I could list, the rest of the article will focus on three specific areas that we felt were important: Community Support, Tagging, and Plugin Architecture. ![]() Both emit very similar metrics out of the box (albeit with some key differences noted later).īoth have an extensive list of plugins. We also have a Collectd plugin just for Wavefront and we’ll have one for Telegraf soon as well.īoth Collectd and Telegraf are open source projects. Since Wavefront accepts OpenTSDB formatted data, both can quickly be configured to send metrics to Wavefront with minimal effort. In this case the backend is Wavefront.īoth Collectd and Telegraf have built-in OpenTSDB output plugins. Using Collectd or Telegraf with WavefrontĪt a high-level, Collectd and Telegraf aim to do the exact same thing – collect metrics from your systems then output them to some backend storage. The following will explain which one we are choosing to build on and why. While Wavefront will always be a collector agnostic platform that works with both, we will be prioritizing our efforts around integrations on one of them. ![]() This comparison is not meant to be a sweeping deep dive into which one is better or worse. This article will offer a comparison of the 2 most popular collector agents from our experience out in the wild world of metrics, Collectd and Telegraf. This blog post was written by Evan Pease on behalf of Wavefront. ![]()
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