AlternativesToInfluxDB

njmon Architecture alternatives for a stats database and graphing

njmon - I can't test everything.

Volunteers who know more about these tools are wanted.
Please get in touch if you can help.

Grafana covers many database tools and InfluxDB

% blue%Prometheus - open source with purchable support

Use InfluxData's tool called "telegraf"
njmon can send Telegraf the line protocol data and forward it to Prometheus
nimon operates a push data system, but Prometheus is a pull system - Telegraf can work with both

VictoriaMetrics

Website: https://victoriametrics.com/
nimon works on the open source tools VictoriaMetrics.
Changes have been made to support VictoriaMetrics due to its poor handling of the InfluxDB Line Protocol format.
Check the -S option and the nimon -h output for more details.

Elastic

Another popular toolset is Elastic: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK):

Open source and popular for people first wanting to save and analyse/graph log file data
From what I have read, logstash actually stores its data as JSON
Use Elastic Filebeat to load your njmon JSON
- I found this surprisingly easy to set up and use
Use filebeat to monitor a file for extra data and send that too
As JSON is already structured, it is easy to then graph with the integrated Kibana (or Grafana!)

If you are an "elastic" expert, please share your experience and hints & tips.

Splunk

I tested Splunk (harder to install and get going as it has lots of functions for log file analysis, not needed for njmon stats

I hacked out a njmon fo injector to add the njmon stats to the Splunk database and found the data in Splunk OK
I then got a bit lost getting the stat graphable
It does seem to work.