Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to RRDTool

The top open-source alternatives to RRDTool are TimescaleDB, OpenTSDB, and InfluxData. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

TimescaleDB Landing Page
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TimescaleDB

TimescaleDB is a time-series SQL database providing fast analytics, scalability, with automated data management on a proven storage engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Time Series Database #Time Series Data #Postgres 5 social mentions
OpenTSDB Landing Page
2

OpenTSDB

OpenTSDB is a distributed, scalable Time Series Database (TSDB) written on top of HBase.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Databases #Time Series Database #Time Series Data
InfluxData Landing Page
3

InfluxData

Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Big Data #Time Series Database #Time Series Data 2 social mentions
Ganglia Landing Page
4

Ganglia

Scalable distributed monitoring system
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Incident Management
Prometheus Landing Page
5

Prometheus

An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 224 social mentions
Zabbix Landing Page
6

Zabbix

Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions
Grafana Landing Page
7

Grafana

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions
Warp 10 Landing Page
8

Warp 10

Ease the daily management and analysis of sensor data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
#Data Storage #Data Analytics #Data Visualization
VictoriaMetrics Landing Page
9

VictoriaMetrics

Cost-effective database for huge amounts of time series data
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Time Series Database #Databases 17 social mentions
Cortex Project Landing Page
10

Cortex Project

Horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Databases #Time Series Database 4 social mentions
Nagios Landing Page
11

Nagios

Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management
KairosDB Landing Page
12

KairosDB

Fast Time Series Database on Cassandra
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Databases #Time Series Database #Monitoring Tools