Graphite Monitoring is described as 'Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system. As a user, you write an application that collects numeric time-series data that you are interested in graphing, and send it to Graphite's processing backend, carbon, which stores the data in Graphite's specialized' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Graphite Monitoring for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Web-based, Windows, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Graphite Monitoring alternative is Grafana, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Graphite Monitoring are InfluxDB, Datadog, VictoriaMetrics and Graylog.
Harvesters watch log files for changes, send new log messages to the server, which broadcasts to web clients. Log messages are tagged with stream, node, and log level information based on user configuration.
