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Posted Sep 20, 2024 21:46 UTC (Fri) by champtar (subscriber, #128673)
Parent article: pcp: pmcd network daemon review (SUSE Security Team Blog)

If you have never heard of PCP, it is used by Cockpit (https://cockpit-project.org/) to provide the graphs (at least the network ones)

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Posted Sep 21, 2024 12:02 UTC (Sat) by npws (subscriber, #168248) [Link] (3 responses)

Same here. Looked at the documentation, but I'm wondering, what can it do that Grafana can't?

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Posted Sep 21, 2024 14:51 UTC (Sat) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link] (1 responses)

> Looked at the documentation, but I'm wondering, what can it do that Grafana can't?

Ehm... Everything, given that Grafana is a web dashboard and PCP is a metrics agent + analysis toolkit?

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Posted Sep 24, 2024 18:10 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

That's probably more helpfully phrased as what can Performance Co-Pilot do that Prometheus/Grafana cannot. To my first look it didn't seem if pcp added any value if you already had Prometheus configured or needed something outside its ecosystem, but if you were starting from scratch and wanted to stay within the ecosystem of built-in tools (such as Cockpit) you could invest in pcp with central collection instead and get pretty much the same performance metrics as Prometheus..

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Posted Sep 21, 2024 19:02 UTC (Sat) by champtar (subscriber, #128673) [Link]

Grafana has a plugin for PCP: https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/performancecopilot-pc...