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Monitoring Tools Comparisons

Discussions center on comparing open-source monitoring and observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, VictoriaMetrics, and Telegraf, with users asking about integrations, advantages, alternatives, and production use cases.

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drcongo • Apr 5, 2024 • View on HN

Have you tried VictoriaMetrics? First time I've come across it and the GitHub README certainly sounds compelling.

LukeHoersten • May 19, 2016 • View on HN

Any reason this doesn't just integrate with Grafana?

Jugurtha • Dec 19, 2021 • View on HN

Prometheus and Grafana. That's what we use.

zozos • Jun 8, 2017 • View on HN

Shouldn't Prometheus be compared to InfluxDB?

pvelagal • Jun 8, 2017 • View on HN

This is a weird comparison. Grafana + InfluxDB is quite powerful. No mention of InfluxDB at all.

iwwr • Apr 25, 2021 • View on HN

How does this compare to Grafana?

atombender • Nov 11, 2020 • View on HN

Can anyone comment on how InfluxDB compares to Prometheus and Grafana?

l33tman • Jul 29, 2023 • View on HN

I've been using telegraf + influxdb + grafana for my last projects, never really had to tweak anything after uncommenting the right sections in the telegraf.conf.. is prometheus and associated tools kind of an alternative to that stack?

happymcplaksin • Jul 2, 2015 • View on HN

Have you tried http://prometheus.io/ ?

dengolius • Nov 14, 2025 • View on HN

May I suggest trying VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack?