Vector Alternatives

Vector is described as 'Open source on-host performance monitoring framework which exposes hand picked high resolution system and application metrics to every engineer’s browser. Having the right metrics available on-demand and at a high resolution is key to understand how a system behaves' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are five alternatives to Vector for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Vector alternative is Prometheus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vector are Grafana Loki, Graphite Monitoring, Axibase Time Series Database and DalmatinerDB.

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  1. Prometheus icon

    Prometheus

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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.

    70 Prometheus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
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    • Prometheus is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Vector.

    • Prometheus is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Vector.

    • Prometheus is Free and Open SourceVector is also Free and Open Source
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    Grafana Loki

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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.

    60 Grafana Loki alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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    • Grafana Loki is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Vector.

    • Grafana Loki is Free and Open SourceVector is also Free and Open Source
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    Graphite Monitoring

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Django
    Graphite Browser Web Interface
     
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    Axibase Time Series Database

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    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
    ATSD Visualization Portal Example
     
  6. DalmatinerDB icon

    DalmatinerDB

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    DalmatinerDB is a metric database written in Erlang. It takes advantage of special properties of metrics to make trade-offs. The goal is to make a store for metric data (time, values) that is fast, has a low overhead, and is easy to query and manage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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