InfluxDB Alternatives

InfluxDB is described as 'Open source time series database, purpose-built by InfluxData for monitoring metrics and events, provides real-time visibility into stacks, sensors, and systems. Use InfluxDB to capture, analyze, and store millions of points per second, meet demanding SLA’s, and chart a' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to InfluxDB for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows and SaaS apps. The best InfluxDB alternative is Prometheus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like InfluxDB are Grafana Loki, Graphite Monitoring, VictoriaMetrics and Hydra Postgres Analytics.

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  1. Prometheus icon
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    Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community.

    72 Prometheus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
     
  2. Grafana Loki icon
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    Grafana Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.

    61 Grafana Loki alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system. As a user, you write an application that collects numeric time-series data that you are interested in graphing, and send it to Graphite's processing backend, carbon, which stores the data in Graphite's specialized...

    58 Graphite Monitoring alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Django
     
  4. VictoriaMetrics can be used as long-term storage for Prometheus or for vmagent.

    8 VictoriaMetrics alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Comments about VictoriaMetrics as an Alternative to InfluxDB
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    It doesn't crash and doesn't lose data. It needs less RAM and CPU. It doesn't break during upgrades.

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    • VictoriaMetrics is Free and Open SourceInfluxDB is Freemium and Open Source
  5. Hydra is an open source, column-oriented Postgres. Query billions of rows instantly, no code changes.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. Citus gives you the Postgres you love, plus the superpower of distributed tables. 100% open source. Now with schema-based sharding in Citus 12.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Levitate is a mission-critical time series database that allows control over queries and storage to build a cost-effective and toil-free foundation for operational readiness. It's built for high query performance, high availability, and low latency writing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. QuestDB icon
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    QuestDB is a relational column-oriented database designed for time series and event data. It uses SQL with extensions for time series to assist with real-time analytics.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    RRDtool (acronym for round-robin database tool) aims to handle time-series data like network bandwidth, temperatures, CPU load, etc. The data are stored in a round-robin database (circular buffer), thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. ATSD is purpose-built for analyzing and reporting on massive volumes of time-series data collected at high frequency. Features include data analytics, visualization, data forecasting, reporting, alerting. All in one product built for big data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. TimescaleDB icon
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    An open-source database built for analyzing time-series data with the power and convenience of SQL — on premise, at the edge or in the cloud.

    9 TimescaleDB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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