Infra & metrics
collectd
open source / community
Long-running, lightweight C system-stats daemon with 100+ plugins, classically feeding Graphite/InfluxDB/RRD.
- Category
- Infra & metrics
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Legacy
- Popularity
- ≈3.3k GitHub stars
The catch
Old-guard and slowing — push-model and RRD-era assumptions feel dated next to Prometheus exporters/Telegraf, and many shops have migrated off it.
Monitors
ServersMetrics
Built for
SRE / DevOps