collectd or cacti

[Olivier JAN]

Hi,

I think those are not quite the same. Collectd is rahter a collection  
of metrics tool and cacti intends to be a complete solution for rrdtool.

Collectd is based on the push (passive) model where each node push its  
data to at least one central server. Collectd doesn't have any decent  
frontend. You must use drraw or cacti to graph the datas collected.  
Also rrd databases are just a option to store the data among others  
(e.g csv). You can have collects frequencies you can't achieve with an  
active model (every 10 seconds or less if you want)

Cacti is based on a polling model (active pull). It collects, store  
and graph the datas.

Conclusion : you can use both rather than one or one.


Olivier
http://nagios-fr.org

"Marcelo M. Garcia" <marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com> a écrit :

> Hi
>
> Is anybody using collectd or cacti? I would like some feedback about on
> why choose one or another. Maybe in a not so near future use with Nagios.
>
> I tried Ganglia but it doesn't seems very easy to configure or that it
> must runs in a separated network, like a cluster.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcelo
>
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