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I'm curious why they chose CollectD and not Prometheus or another pull-based ("scraping") solution. Pulling is more compositional than pushing and requires fewe
by Kednicma 6y ago
I'm curious why they chose CollectD and not Prometheus or another pull-based ("scraping") solution. Pulling is more compositional than pushing and requires fewer machines to be touched when monitoring configuration is changed.
- viraptor 6y agoProbably due to the size of deployment. I'd go to Prometheus in a larger/dynamic environment for flexibility, but I'm happy using telegraf on a home network where I configure things by hand when I'm logged into each pet machine.
- mhall119 6y agoThe author responded in another thread, it was just due to being familiar with CollectD already