# Metricbeat vs Other Software

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-vs-other-software/65007>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [November 4, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-vs-other-software/65007 "2016-11-04T12:19:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ralg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ralg)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-vs-other-software/65007/1 "2016-11-04T12:19:40Z")

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Hi all.  
Considering that each software favours some features and there's no software that provides all of them, I'd love to see how metricbeat can be compared to existing solutions and how it tries to make a difference. (ex. collectd, snap telemetry, etc...)

Thanks,  
Rui

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-vs-other-software/65007/2 "2016-11-25T12:20:45Z")

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