Commit 5042d52c authored by mpursley's avatar mpursley Committed by Brian Brazil

Add mention of "Enterprise Kapacitor", for HA alerting with InfluxEnterprise (#930)

parent 68f3eaa1
...@@ -132,14 +132,16 @@ boundaries like products, services, datacenters, or similar aspects. ...@@ -132,14 +132,16 @@ boundaries like products, services, datacenters, or similar aspects.
Independent servers (which can be run redundantly in parallel) may also give Independent servers (which can be run redundantly in parallel) may also give
you better reliability and failure isolation. you better reliability and failure isolation.
Kapacitor currently has no [built-in distributed/redundant Kapacitor's open-source release has no built-in distributed/redundant options for
options](https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/issues/277) for rules, rules, alerting, or notifications. The open-source release of Kapacitor can
alerting, or notifications. Prometheus and the Alertmanager by contrast offer a be scaled via manual sharding by the user, similar to Prometheus itself.
redundant option via running redundant replicas of Prometheus and using the Influx offers [Enterprise Kapacitor](https://docs.influxdata.com/enterprise_kapacitor), which supports an
Alertmanager's [High HA/redundant alerting system.
Availability](https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager#high-availability)
mode. In addition, Kapacitor can be scaled via manual sharding by the user, Prometheus and the Alertmanager by contrast offer a fully open-source redundant
similar to Prometheus itself. option via running redundant replicas of Prometheus and using the Alertmanager's
[High Availability](https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager#high-availability)
mode.
### Summary ### Summary
...@@ -165,8 +167,7 @@ Where Prometheus is better: ...@@ -165,8 +167,7 @@ Where Prometheus is better:
InfluxDB is maintained by a single commercial company following the open-core InfluxDB is maintained by a single commercial company following the open-core
model, offering premium features like closed-source clustering, hosting and model, offering premium features like closed-source clustering, hosting and
support. Prometheus is a [fully open source and independent project](/community/), maintained support. Prometheus is a [fully open source and independent project](/community/), maintained
by a number of companies and individuals, some of whom also offer commercial by a number of companies and individuals, some of whom also offer commercial services and support.
services and support.
## Prometheus vs. OpenTSDB ## Prometheus vs. OpenTSDB
...@@ -182,10 +183,11 @@ The same scope differences as in the case of ...@@ -182,10 +183,11 @@ The same scope differences as in the case of
OpenTSDB's data model is almost identical to Prometheus's: time series are OpenTSDB's data model is almost identical to Prometheus's: time series are
identified by a set of arbitrary key-value pairs (OpenTSDB tags are identified by a set of arbitrary key-value pairs (OpenTSDB tags are
Prometheus labels). All data for a metric is [stored together](http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/user_guide/writing/index.html#time-series-cardinality), Prometheus labels). All data for a metric is
limiting the cardinality of metrics. There are minor differences though: Prometheus allows arbitrary characters in label values, while [stored together](http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/user_guide/writing/index.html#time-series-cardinality),
OpenTSDB is more restrictive. OpenTSDB also lacks a full query language, limiting the cardinality of metrics. There are minor differences though: Prometheus
only allowing simple aggregation and math via its API. allows arbitrary characters in label values, while OpenTSDB is more restrictive.
OpenTSDB also lacks a full query language, only allowing simple aggregation and math via its API.
### Storage ### Storage
...@@ -211,15 +213,17 @@ good choice. ...@@ -211,15 +213,17 @@ good choice.
### Scope ### Scope
Nagios is primarily about alerting based on the exit codes of scripts. These are called “checks”. Nagios is primarily about alerting based on the exit codes of scripts. These are
There is silencing of individual alerts, however no grouping, routing or deduplication. called “checks”. There is silencing of individual alerts, however no grouping,
routing or deduplication.
There are a variety of plugins. For example, piping the few kilobytes of There are a variety of plugins. For example, piping the few kilobytes of
perfData plugins are allowed to return [to a time series database such as Graphite](https://github.com/shawn-sterling/graphios) or using NRPE to [run checks on remote machines](https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Monitoring-Agents/NRPE--2D-Nagios-Remote-Plugin-Executor/details). perfData plugins are allowed to return [to a time series database such as Graphite](https://github.com/shawn-sterling/graphios) or using NRPE to [run checks on remote machines](https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Monitoring-Agents/NRPE--2D-Nagios-Remote-Plugin-Executor/details).
### Data model ### Data model
Nagios is host-based. Each host can have one or more services and each service can perform one check. Nagios is host-based. Each host can have one or more services and each service
can perform one check.
There is no notion of labels or a query language. There is no notion of labels or a query language.
...@@ -275,7 +279,8 @@ run for scaling and redundancy. ...@@ -275,7 +279,8 @@ run for scaling and redundancy.
### Summary ### Summary
If you have an existing Nagios setup that you wish to scale as-is, or want to take advantage of the registration feature of Sensu, then Sensu is a good choice. If you have an existing Nagios setup that you wish to scale as-is, or want to
take advantage of the registration feature of Sensu, then Sensu is a good choice.
If you want to do whitebox monitoring, or have a very dynamic or cloud based If you want to do whitebox monitoring, or have a very dynamic or cloud based
environment, then Prometheus is a good choice. environment, then Prometheus is a good choice.
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