Ask HN: What are the differences between Influxdb+Grafana and ELK?

5 pointsvukers11y ago1 comments

I've been looking into both stacks and it seems like they are both capable of visualizing and analyzing your collected metrics. Are there specific use-cases for each that differentiate the two?

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nopzor11y ago

Elasitcsearch is really a document database of sorts. Think of using it to store logs or messages.

InfluxDB is a time series database. Think of using it to store periodic measurement data (generally samples or point in time measurements).

For a complete solution you really need both of them.

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Ask HN: What are the differences between Influxdb+Grafana and ELK?

5 pointsvukers11y ago1 comments

I've been looking into both stacks and it seems like they are both capable of visualizing and analyzing your collected metrics. Are there specific use-cases for each that differentiate the two?

1 comments

nopzor11y ago

Elasitcsearch is really a document database of sorts. Think of using it to store logs or messages.

InfluxDB is a time series database. Think of using it to store periodic measurement data (generally samples or point in time measurements).

For a complete solution you really need both of them.

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