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<p>
There are many tools out there that do monitoring in one way or the other. There are complete closed source solutions like
<a href="https://newrelic.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">New Relic</a>,
<a href="https://www.splunk.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Splunk</a>,
<a href="https://www.splunk.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Splunk</a>
and <a href="https://www.appdynamics.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">App Dynamics</a>.
They bring everything you need, a tool to collect logs or metrics, a database, a UI with dashboards and alerting.
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The OSS community likes to break them down into separate tools.
For example the <a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/elastic-stack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">ELK</a>-stack
consists of <a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Elasticsearch</a>
as database, and <a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Kibana</a>
as database and <a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Kibana</a>
as the UI. It is usually combined with <a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Logstash</a>
for logfile collection.<br/>
or <a href="https://www.elastic.co/de/beats/filebeat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Filebeat</a>
for logfile collection.</p>
<p>
Another popular UI is <a href="https://grafana.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Grafana</a>
which can be combined with
<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/loki/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Loki</a>,
<a href="https://prometheus.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Prometheus</a>,
<a href="https://graphiteapp.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Graphite</a> or
<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/metrictank/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Metrictank</a> (which is an engine for Graphite).
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<p>
Newer and popular for its good database is the duo <a href="https://www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">InfluxDB</a>
+ <a href="https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/chronograf/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Chronograf</a>.
</p>
<p>
Apart from the general purpose solutions there are also more specialized tools. For example
<a href="https://www.nagios.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Nagios</a>/<a href="https://icinga.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Icinga</a>
which specializes in hardware monitoring.
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<br/><br/>
<a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Kibana</a> (<a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/elastic-stack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">ELK</a>),
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<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/loki/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Loki</a>,
<a href="https://grafana.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Grafana</a>,
<a href="https://www.solarwinds.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Solarwinds</a>
<a href="https://github.com/Netflix/atlas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Netflix Atlas</a>,
<a href="https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">RRDtool</a>,
<a href="http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Ganglia</a>,