collectd (https://collectd.org/) is a very stable and proven technology to gather system information. collectd provides a bunch of plugins (https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Table_of_Plugins) to gather information.
We thought that the world right now does not need another open source tool that gathers and transports system metrics (there are already so many: https://collectd.org/related.shtml). What the world is missing though is an integrated open source APM solution that provides in-depth application monitoring and analytics combined with the base metrics of the hardware. inspectIT does provide the application monitoring. For the system and OS part, we rely on collectd. collectd (https://collectd.org/) is a very stable and proven technology to gather system information.
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