alertmanager VS zipkin

Compare alertmanager vs zipkin and see what are their differences.

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alertmanager zipkin
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6,233 16,679
1.7% 0.5%
9.2 9.4
about 9 hours ago about 15 hours ago
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Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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alertmanager

Posts with mentions or reviews of alertmanager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-10.
  • My Raspberry Pi 4 Dashboard
    11 projects | /r/selfhosted | 10 Jan 2023
    - Alert Manager
  • Uptime monitoring (~1000 urls)
    7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Nov 2022
    You could use prometheus as a monitoring tool, blackbox_exporter to "export" the urls to prometheus, alertmanager for notifications, and grafana for nice gui dashboards (and maybe also notifications).
  • Ultra Monitoring with Victoria Metrics
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 May 2022
    vmalert: executes a list of the given alerting or recording rules against configured data sources. For sending alerting notifications vmalert relies on configured Alertmanager. Recording rules results are persisted via remote write protocol. vmalert is heavily inspired by Prometheus implementation and aims to be compatible with its syntax
  • Can Prometheus act similar to OPC A&E server?
    2 projects | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 29 Apr 2022
    Yes, I believe you can do all of what you're looking for without a UI. The alertmanager api has the ability to register receivers as well as to poll for alerts, silence them, etc: https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/blob/main/api/v2/openapi.yaml
  • Part I: EC2 with Prometheus
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2022
    #cloud-config # environment: ${environment} runcmd: # install AWS CLI, neeeded for downloading of configuration files - | apt-get update && apt-get install unzip -y curl -Lo awscli.zip https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-aarch64.zip unzip awscli.zip ./aws/install rm awscli.zip # install prometheus binary - | curl -Lo prometheus.tar.gz https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.33.1/prometheus-2.33.1.linux-arm64.tar.gz tar -xvf prometheus.tar.gz cp ./prometheus-2.33.1.linux-arm64/prometheus /usr/local/bin/prometheus rm -rf ./prometheus-2.33.1.linux-arm64 rm -rf prometheus.tar.gz # install alertmanager binary - | curl -Lo alertmanager.tar.gz https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/releases/download/v0.23.0/alertmanager-0.23.0.linux-arm64.tar.gz tar -xvf alertmanager.tar.gz mv ./alertmanager-0.23.0.linux-arm64/alertmanager /usr/local/bin/alertmanager rm -rf alertmanager-0.23.0.linux-arm64 rm alertmanager.tar.gz # vait for EBS volume - | while [ ! -b $(readlink -f /dev/nvme1n1) ]; do echo "waiting for device /dev/nvme1n1" sleep 5 done # format volume blkid $(readlink -f /dev/nvme1n1) || mkfs -t ext4 $(readlink -f /dev/nvme1n1) # create a mount mkdir -p /data if ! grep "/dev/nvme1n1" /etc/fstab; then echo "/dev/nvme1n1 /data ext4 defaults,discard 0 0" >> /etc/fstab fi # mount volume mount /data # enable and start systemd services - | systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable prepare-prometheus.service && systemctl start prepare-prometheus.service && sleep 10 systemctl enable prometheus.service && systemctl start prometheus.service systemctl enable alertmanager.service && systemctl start alertmanager.service write_files: - path: /usr/local/bin/prepare-prometheus permissions: '0744' content: | #!/bin/sh mkdir -p /etc/prometheus aws s3 cp s3://${s3_bucket}/prometheus.yaml /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yaml aws s3 cp s3://${s3_bucket}/alertmanager.yaml /etc/prometheus/alertmanager.yaml aws s3 cp s3://${s3_bucket}/prometheus.rules.yaml /etc/prometheus/prometheus.rules.yaml curl -X POST http://localhost:9090/-/reload || true - path: /etc/systemd/system/prepare-prometheus.service content: | [Unit] Description=Prepare prometheus / alertmanager configuration Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/prepare-prometheus # please note data.mount in dependencies - path: /etc/systemd/system/prometheus.service content: | [Unit] Description=Prometheus Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target data.mount prepare-prometheus.service [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/prometheus \ --config.file /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yaml \ --storage.tsdb.path /data/ \ --web.enable-lifecycle \ --web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles \ --web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries \ --enable-feature=remote-write-receiver [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target - path: /etc/systemd/system/alertmanager.service content: | [Unit] Description=Alert Manager Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target data.mount prepare-prometheus.service [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/alertmanager \ --config.file /etc/prometheus/alertmanager.yaml \ --storage.path=/data/ [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
  • It took almost a full day, but I finally got a decent homelab diagram :D Feedback is most welcome!
    27 projects | /r/homelab | 22 Aug 2021
    Prometheus)Alertmanager: https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager | https://prometheus.io/
  • Finally got a landing page built for my little lab, after much inspiration from this sub!
    9 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 May 2021
    At a high level, I use various Prometheus exporters, including node-exporter and some simple custom exporters, which can then be consumed by Grafana for dashboards, Alert Manager for sending PushOver notifications, and my own web apps for displaying custom metrics. Hope that helps :)
  • Architecting your Cloud Native Infrastructure
    14 projects | dev.to | 13 Feb 2021
    In any such scenarios, a tool like Prometheus can act as the time series database to collect all the metrics for you along with something like OpenTelemetry to expose metrics from the application and the various tools using inbuilt exporters, Alertmanager to send notifications and alerts to multiple channels, Grafana as the dashboard to visualize everything at one place and so on giving users a complete visibility on the infrastructure as a whole.

zipkin

Posts with mentions or reviews of zipkin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing alertmanager and zipkin you can also consider the following projects:

skywalking - APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

sentry-java - A Sentry SDK for Java, Android and other JVM languages.

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

Fluentd - Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF)

opentelemetry-specification - Specifications for OpenTelemetry

brave - Java distributed tracing implementation compatible with Zipkin backend services.

signoz - SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.

jaeger - CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

jmeter-dynatrace-plugin - This library implements a JMeter Backend listener and sends the recorded loadtest metrics via the Dynatrace MINT metric ingest to the configured Dynatrace monitoring environment.