2026-09-22
Graylog — a platform for centralized log management. Unlike ELK, which is assembled from separate components, Graylog is originally built as a single system: intake, processing, routing, storage, search, alerts and …
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OpenSearch — an open data search and analytics system most often used for centralized log storage. It is a fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana: in 2021, after Elastic changed the license to SSPL and the Elastic License, …
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ELK Stack — the best-known software stack for centralized logging. The name is formed from the initials of three components from Elastic: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Together they collect logs, parse them into …
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Metrics show something is wrong with the system: response time has increased, memory is exhausted, the share of successful requests has dropped. To understand why this happened, you need logs — records of events written …
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VictoriaMetrics — a time-series database compatible with Prometheus. It is used as a long-term storage for Prometheus metrics or as a complete replacement for it — together with the vmagent collector and the vmalert …
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Zabbix — an “all-in-one” monitoring system: data collection, storage, triggers, alerts, dashboards and access control are combined in a single product. It’s chosen when you need to monitor servers, …
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Prometheus — an open-source monitoring system and time-series database (Apache 2.0 license). It was created at SoundCloud in 2012, and in 2016 the project joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, second after …
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Munin is one of the oldest open-source monitoring systems (GPLv2). It collects system metrics from servers and builds ready-made graphs from them: no query language, no separate database, and almost no configuration. The …
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Monitoring is the continuous collection and analysis of data about the operation of servers, networks, databases, and applications. Its goal is to detect a problem before users do: to see that disk space is running out, …
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UniFi — a line of networking equipment from the American company Ubiquiti: gateways, switches, Wi-Fi access points, surveillance cameras, telephony and access control. The main difference between UniFi and MikroTik is …
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