CLOUD PERFORMANCE TUNING
ASSIGNMENT- 8
Objective: Exploring Top 10 Free and Open Source Performance Monitoring
Tools with their pros, cons and working procedure with valuable features.
1) SigNoz
SigNoz presents itself as an open-source alternative to Datadog, a leader in the
APM and observability industry. For an open-source tool, it offers quite
powerful features, such as root cause analysis, detailed trace filtering, and
scalable stream processing architecture, with other features like role-based
access control (RBAC), single sign-on (SSO), and anomaly detection in its
roadmap.
Features include:
Metrics and Traces in a Single Place:
SigNoz puts metrics and traces together in its smooth, intuitive UI. This makes
it easy for you to get insight into what’s happening in your apps. The
dashboard is self-explanatory, and you can click on individual items in the list
of requests at the bottom to get more details on each request.
Easy-to-Use Dashboards:
Building dashboards is relatively easy in SigNoz. You can add widgets to your
dashboard, and your widgets can query your metrics directly, using PromQL,
ClickHouse Query, or a simple query builder. Once a dashboard is built, you can
view all the visualizations in one place. You can also save and share dashboards
with other members of your team.
Powerful Trace Filtering:
Some of SigNoz’s most important offerings, given that it is an open-source tool,
are its filtering capabilities. You can use the quick filters on the left side of the
interface to hash out the information you need or run complex queries using
all possible tags from your traces. The filters are easy to apply, and you can
always drill down into the results to know more about them.
PromQL-Backed Alerts:
You can use a Prometheus-like editor to quickly set up alerts in SigNoz. This
editor allows you to conveniently set the condition, period, and labels for your
alerts. Once you save an alert, it shows up in the list. When an alert gets
,triggered, it shows up in the another tab, ”Triggered Alerts.” You can apply
filters and group alerts, but the feature isn’t very advanced.
Service Maps:
SigNoz presents you with a very simple service map that shows how the
components of your app are connected. The size of each node in the map is
proportional to the number of requests it receives on average. For an open-
source tool, the service map offered by SigNoz is more than sufficient.
Pros:
Open-source: Since SigNoz is completely open-source, you get to try it in
your projects without any compliance or security concerns. You have
access to its product roadmap and can support its development directly.
The fact that it is free to use is an enabler for many small startups that are
just starting to tap into the realm of observability and monitoring.
Easy-to-use user interface: For an open-source tool, SigNoz’s UI feels quite
fluid and advanced. Everything that you need is easily accessible, and it
takes only a few clicks to drill deep into an issue or event.
Powerful filtering and aggregation options: SigNoz offers a very powerful
filtering and aggregation experience for traces and metrics. It is on par
with quite a few paid tools in the market.
Enhanced flexibility and privacy: Since SigNoz is open-source and you can
self-host it, you retain complete control over your app data. You do not
need to worry about privacy laws such as GDPR or CPRA. Also, since you
can self-host the infrastructure, you don’t need to wait for scheduled
maintenance or downtimes.
Cons:
Lack of paid version
High Memory usage
, 2) LibreNMS
It is an auto-discovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which
includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems
including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP and many more.
LibreNMS is a tool in the Network Monitoring category of a tech stack.
It consists of various features:
Automatically discover your entire network using CDP, FDP, LLDP, OSPF,
BGP, SNMP and ARP.
Highly flexible alerting system, notify via email, irc, slack and more.
A full API to manage, graph and retrieve data from your install.
Generate bandwidth bills for ports on your network based on usage or
transfer.
Stay upto date automatically with bug fixes, new features and more.
Horizontal scaling to grow with your network.
Native iPhone App is available which provides core functionality.
Native Android App is available which provides core functionality.
How it works:
It auto-discovers a whole network using these protocols: CDP, FDP, LLDP, OSPF,
BGP, SNMP and ARP. It has a mobile friendly Web UI, with customizable
dashboards. It also supports a Unix agent as wells as horizontal scaling to
expand with your network.
Pros:
Graphing
Support
Helpful Community
Great overall product
Cons:
Lack of paid version
High Memory usage
ASSIGNMENT- 8
Objective: Exploring Top 10 Free and Open Source Performance Monitoring
Tools with their pros, cons and working procedure with valuable features.
1) SigNoz
SigNoz presents itself as an open-source alternative to Datadog, a leader in the
APM and observability industry. For an open-source tool, it offers quite
powerful features, such as root cause analysis, detailed trace filtering, and
scalable stream processing architecture, with other features like role-based
access control (RBAC), single sign-on (SSO), and anomaly detection in its
roadmap.
Features include:
Metrics and Traces in a Single Place:
SigNoz puts metrics and traces together in its smooth, intuitive UI. This makes
it easy for you to get insight into what’s happening in your apps. The
dashboard is self-explanatory, and you can click on individual items in the list
of requests at the bottom to get more details on each request.
Easy-to-Use Dashboards:
Building dashboards is relatively easy in SigNoz. You can add widgets to your
dashboard, and your widgets can query your metrics directly, using PromQL,
ClickHouse Query, or a simple query builder. Once a dashboard is built, you can
view all the visualizations in one place. You can also save and share dashboards
with other members of your team.
Powerful Trace Filtering:
Some of SigNoz’s most important offerings, given that it is an open-source tool,
are its filtering capabilities. You can use the quick filters on the left side of the
interface to hash out the information you need or run complex queries using
all possible tags from your traces. The filters are easy to apply, and you can
always drill down into the results to know more about them.
PromQL-Backed Alerts:
You can use a Prometheus-like editor to quickly set up alerts in SigNoz. This
editor allows you to conveniently set the condition, period, and labels for your
alerts. Once you save an alert, it shows up in the list. When an alert gets
,triggered, it shows up in the another tab, ”Triggered Alerts.” You can apply
filters and group alerts, but the feature isn’t very advanced.
Service Maps:
SigNoz presents you with a very simple service map that shows how the
components of your app are connected. The size of each node in the map is
proportional to the number of requests it receives on average. For an open-
source tool, the service map offered by SigNoz is more than sufficient.
Pros:
Open-source: Since SigNoz is completely open-source, you get to try it in
your projects without any compliance or security concerns. You have
access to its product roadmap and can support its development directly.
The fact that it is free to use is an enabler for many small startups that are
just starting to tap into the realm of observability and monitoring.
Easy-to-use user interface: For an open-source tool, SigNoz’s UI feels quite
fluid and advanced. Everything that you need is easily accessible, and it
takes only a few clicks to drill deep into an issue or event.
Powerful filtering and aggregation options: SigNoz offers a very powerful
filtering and aggregation experience for traces and metrics. It is on par
with quite a few paid tools in the market.
Enhanced flexibility and privacy: Since SigNoz is open-source and you can
self-host it, you retain complete control over your app data. You do not
need to worry about privacy laws such as GDPR or CPRA. Also, since you
can self-host the infrastructure, you don’t need to wait for scheduled
maintenance or downtimes.
Cons:
Lack of paid version
High Memory usage
, 2) LibreNMS
It is an auto-discovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which
includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems
including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP and many more.
LibreNMS is a tool in the Network Monitoring category of a tech stack.
It consists of various features:
Automatically discover your entire network using CDP, FDP, LLDP, OSPF,
BGP, SNMP and ARP.
Highly flexible alerting system, notify via email, irc, slack and more.
A full API to manage, graph and retrieve data from your install.
Generate bandwidth bills for ports on your network based on usage or
transfer.
Stay upto date automatically with bug fixes, new features and more.
Horizontal scaling to grow with your network.
Native iPhone App is available which provides core functionality.
Native Android App is available which provides core functionality.
How it works:
It auto-discovers a whole network using these protocols: CDP, FDP, LLDP, OSPF,
BGP, SNMP and ARP. It has a mobile friendly Web UI, with customizable
dashboards. It also supports a Unix agent as wells as horizontal scaling to
expand with your network.
Pros:
Graphing
Support
Helpful Community
Great overall product
Cons:
Lack of paid version
High Memory usage
