# Topbeat vs. SIGAR

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-vs-sigar/39731>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [January 21, 2016, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-vs-sigar/39731 "2016-01-21T05:36:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-vs-sigar/39731/1 "2016-01-21T05:36:51Z")

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Hi,

Does Topbeat offer anything that one cannot get from SIGAR itself? In other words, does Topbeat add any other functionality/data that SIGAR doesn't provide? Or is Topbeat just a Go wrapper around SIGAR?

Thanks,  
Otis

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**Author:** ![monica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monica/32/3696_2.png) [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-vs-sigar/39731/2 "2016-01-21T07:11:30Z")

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Topbeat uses Gosigar library, a Go implementation of the sigar library: [https://github.com/elastic/gosigar](https://github.com/elastic/gosigar). This library is maintained by us and we are improving all the time or adding new features to it. If you want, Topbeat is just a wrapper around Gosigar.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-vs-sigar/39731/3 "2017-07-05T21:56:33Z")

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