How to: Metrics & Metric Collection
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Metric gathering and display software.

_Related: [Databases](#databases), [Monitoring](#monitoring)_

- [Beats](https://www.elastic.co/beats/) - Single-purpose data shippers that send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch. ([Source Code](https://github.com/elastic/beats)) `Apache-2.0` `Go`
- [Collectd](https://collectd.org/) - System statistics collection daemon. ([Source Code](https://github.com/collectd/collectd)) `MIT` `C`
- [Diamond](https://github.com/python-diamond/Diamond) - Daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite (and others). `MIT` `Python`
- [Grafana](https://grafana.com/) - A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor. ([Source Code](https://github.com/grafana/grafana)) `AGPL-3.0` `Go`
- [Graphite](https://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Scalable graphing server. ([Source Code](https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web)) `Apache-2.0` `Python`
- [RRDtool](https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/) - Industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. ([Source Code](https://github.com/oetiker/rrdtool-1.x)) `GPL-2.0` `C`
- [Statsd](https://github.com/etsy/statsd/) - Daemon that listens for statistics like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP, and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services. `MIT` `Nodejs`
- [tcollector](http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/user_guide/utilities/tcollector.html) - Gathers data from local collectors and pushes the data to OpenTSDB. ([Source Code](https://github.com/OpenTSDB/tcollector/)) `LGPL-3.0/GPL-3.0` `Python`
- [Telegraf](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf) - Plugin-driven server agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. `MIT` `Go`