Glowroot vs Metrics

Glowroot

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

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Source Code

glowroot.org

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Metrics

:chart_with_upwards_trend: Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. So you know what's going on. (by dropwizard)

Monitoring Metrics Java metrics-library dropwizard-metrics

Source Code

metrics.dropwizard.io

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Glowroot		Metrics
	Project
5	Mentions	2
1,184	Stars	7,801
1.4%	Growth	0.2%
8.7	Activity	9.4
16 days ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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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Metrics

Posts with mentions or reviews of Metrics. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-24.

Dropwizard 2.1.0 has been released
2 projects | /r/java | 24 May 2022
Metriki: a client-aggregate metrics library ported from Dropwizard Metrics
3 projects | /r/rust | 27 Apr 2021

I have been a loyal user of Java's Dropwizard Metrics library. And it's the most important missing part when our team writing a large-scale rust application. So I decide to port the library to Rust: Metriki

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Glowroot and Metrics you can also consider the following projects:

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

JavaMelody - JavaMelody : monitoring of JavaEE applications

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

Kamon - Distributed Tracing, Metrics and Context Propagation for applications running on the JVM

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

Jolokia - JMX on Capsaicin

skywalking - APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

jmxtrans - jmxtrans

inspectIT - inspectIT is the leading Open Source APM (Application Performance Management) tool for analyzing your Java (EE) applications.

Automon - Automon combines the power of AOP (AspectJ) with monitoring or logging tools you already use to declaratively monitor your Java code, the JDK, and 3rd party libraries.