Glowroot vs apm-server

Glowroot

Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM (by glowroot)

Monitoring

Source Code

glowroot.org

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apm-server

APM Server (by elastic)

Apm ElasticSearch Performance Monitoring error-monitoring DevOps performance-metrics tracing-server distributed-tracing Opentelemetry

Source Code

elastic.co

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Glowroot		apm-server
	Project
5	Mentions	3
1,187	Stars	1,153
1.7%	Growth	0.4%
8.7	Activity	9.8
20 days ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
Java	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Glowroot

Posts with mentions or reviews of Glowroot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-28.

Glowroot - Open Source Java APM
1 project | /r/java | 3 Nov 2023
Open Source Java APM
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023
Splunk to Cut Workforce by 7% After Cisco Deal
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023

Java has an excellent one open source APM - https://glowroot.org/.
Python and other tools - not so much.
I wouldn't say Gartner created hype. Glowroot has been invaluable to us. Of course we run a massive footprint of 0.5m - 0.75m JVMs.
I'm looking for suggestions on improving the startup of a monolith project I work on
1 project | /r/SoftwareEngineering | 25 Jun 2023
Top 13 open source APM tools in 2021
14 projects | dev.to | 28 Jul 2021

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apm-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of apm-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-27.

☸️ Web Application on Kubernetes: A Tutorial to Observability with the Elastic Stack
2 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2023

imageTag: 8.5.1 resources: requests: cpu: 10m memory: 768Mi limits: cpu: 1900m memory: 1024Mi ingress: enabled: false # Allows you to add any config files in /usr/share/kibana/config/ kibanaConfig: kibana.yml: | ### default server.host: "0.0.0.0" server.shutdownTimeout: "5s" elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://elasticsearch:9200"] monitoring.ui.container.elasticsearch.enabled: true ### custom # from https://github.com/elastic/apm-server/issues/10361 xpack.fleet.packages: - name: apm version: 8.5.1
Elasticsearch APM Docker setup
1 project | /r/elasticsearch | 26 Apr 2023

I am using this docker compose apm and I am getting unauthorised certificates error
Top 13 open source APM tools in 2021
14 projects | dev.to | 28 Jul 2021

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Glowroot and apm-server you can also consider the following projects:

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

skywalking - APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

JavaMelody - JavaMelody : monitoring of JavaEE applications

Pinpoint - APM, (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems.

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

Stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring for java server applications

jaeger - CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

Metrics - :chart_with_upwards_trend: Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. So you know what's going on.

zipkin - Zipkin is a distributed tracing system