tcollector vs Statsd

tcollector

Data collection framework for OpenTSDB (by OpenTSDB)

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Statsd

Daemon for easy but powerful stats aggregation (by statsd)

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tcollector		Statsd
	Project
-	Mentions	6
512	Stars	17,475
0.0%	Growth	0.5%
0.6	Activity	5.1
3 days ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Python	Language	JavaScript
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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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.

tcollector

Posts with mentions or reviews of tcollector. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning tcollector yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Statsd

Posts with mentions or reviews of Statsd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.

Building Cages - Creating better DX for deploying Dockerfiles to AWS Nitro Enclaves
2 projects | /r/devops | 4 Apr 2023

statsD for metrics
Elixir metrics and StatsD
3 projects | dev.to | 5 Jun 2022

StatsD is a network daemon that listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services.
How to track profile page views per day, weekly, monthly and amount of times file was downloaded per product per day / week / month? - Without adding 1000+ database entries?
2 projects | /r/django | 12 Mar 2022

If you are essentially tracking an incremental number, statsd was made specifically for this task. It's lightning fast and you can setup different metrics for each scenario you mentioned.
Help with getting started with Metrics, Logging and tracing
2 projects | /r/devops | 2 Jan 2022
Practical OCaml
5 projects | dev.to | 17 May 2021

It reads only 8 KB of data by default; this should be enough for StatsD metrics lines based on the StatsD documentation. Also, that's what Alan Ning's Rust implementation does.
Introduction to StatsD
3 projects | dev.to | 15 Feb 2021

StatsD GitHub repository Scaling StatsD in DoorDash Netdata StatsD reference documentation

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tcollector and Statsd you can also consider the following projects:

Telegraf - The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.

Collectd - The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

InfluxDB - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics

Graphite - A highly scalable real-time graphing system

PGObserver - A battle-tested, flexible & comprehensive monitoring solution for your PostgreSQL databases

Diamond - Diamond is a python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite (and others). It is capable of collecting cpu, memory, network, i/o, load and disk metrics. Additionally, it features an API for implementing custom collectors for gathering metrics from almost any source.

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.