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Goliath Performance Monitor vs InfluxDB comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Goliath Performance Monitor
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
72nd
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
InfluxDB
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
12th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Non-Relational Databases (1st), Open Source Databases (7th), Network Monitoring Software (14th), NoSQL Databases (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Goliath Performance Monitor is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of InfluxDB is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
InfluxDB0.8%
Goliath Performance Monitor0.5%
Other98.7%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

networke29316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
Monitors well with Citrix, stable, and the support is very responsive
It looks like it is easy to scale, but I don't know how far it can go out. We are only a 300, or 400 person company. We are not terribly large. It looks like it should be able to scale up until 10,000 at least. There are two users in the company who use this solution, I use it, and the helpdesk.
Mugeesh Husain - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead, Software at Energybox
Time series data has been managed efficiently for IoT sensors but reporting still needs improvement
How InfluxDB can be improved is relevant since for Energy Box, we face certain issues. We have customers worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe, but when we expanded to China two years ago, they indicated that they do not support the cloud version there. Our application is built on the cloud, which required us to create a separate application for Azure China, which was painful for us. The second issue involves frequent version changes. For example, we started with version one, transitioned to version two, and I heard they are considering InfluxDB version three, reverting to earlier practices. InfluxDB should improve without completely changing its approach. Now we have to redo our work for InfluxDB version three. Regarding needed improvements, the documentation is sufficient, but pricing presents a challenge. InfluxDB has standard pricing, which is acceptable for large companies. However, for startups in our position, they should provide special discounts so everyone can utilize it. The pricing should adapt as companies grow, which is a reasonable expectation.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"My overall conclusion is that it is a valuable product for simulating Citrix logons because it does it with minimal effort and with a real user account."
"In conclusion, I think Goliath Performance Monitor is a true winner."
"I like that the solution offers a diversity of things; it can give you resource monitoring, it can be integrated to detect an application crash, to capture syslog, things like that, and I like the diversity of the dashboard."
"I would definitely give them high praise for what they do, and for being a special niche product."
"I like that it not only has the ability to monitor but that it can do a lot of specific Citrix monitoring."
"I think Goliath offers a very good tool to do simulated Citrix logons with actual user accounts and that the reports are useful to monitor and debug a session."
"Offers a diversity of features."
"While I would rate InfluxDB a ten on a scale of one to ten, users should be thoughtful about matching the engine to their specific needs."
"The most valuable features are aggregating the data and integration with Graphana for monitoring."
"InfluxDB has played a key role in enhancing system reliability and supporting our goal of delivering a seamless, high-quality product."
"The platform operates very quickly. It is easy to configure, connect, and query and integrates seamlessly with Grafana."
"It helps me maintain my solution easily because it is very reliable, so we didn't face any performance issues or crashes regarding our queries; we can get the results very fast."
"As a time series database, it is very powerful and lightweight, and it can deal with heavy workloads very easily."
"InfluxDB has positively impacted Energy Box by being the best choice for our needs."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is we can use InfluxDB to integrate with and plug into any other tools."
 

Cons

"Hardware requirements of the management server are kind of steep, 4cpu is quite a number."
"However, its GUI can use a little help. The navigation is not the most straightforward like many other monitoring tools."
"With Goliath IT Monitors, the processing speed is very slow."
"Issues with generating reports; consistency is not there."
"I would love to be able to tell what ISP the user is coming from."
"The setup is a bit complex."
"However, I do wish the documentation and community resources around Flux were more extensive and beginner-friendly."
"In terms of features that I would like to see or have, in the community version, some features are not available. I would like to have clustering and authentication in the community version."
"Customer support is fair enough but can be improved."
"I chose an 8 out of 10 because there is room for improvement, such as regarding backups and enhanced security through other types of authentication or encrypted data in TLS."
"One area for improvement is the querying language. InfluxDB deprecated FluxQL, which was intuitive since developers are already familiar with standard querying."
"The solution doesn't have much of a user interface."
"Sometimes, when we write too much data within a minute, the data count becomes excessive, reaching perhaps 100,000 or 500,000 data points, and InfluxDB gives a timeout exception, which we must handle in our application."
"It is challenging to get long-running backups while running InfluxDB in a Microsoft Azure Kubernetes cluster."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price seems reasonable."
"The tool is an open-source product."
"We are using the open-source version of InfluxDB."
"InfluxDB is open-source, but there are additional costs for scaling."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with InfluxDB?
If the dashboarding facility can be improved in terms of the visualization parameters and the amount of support available from the community, as well as having smarter alerts to send those alerts t...
What is your primary use case for InfluxDB?
My main use case for InfluxDB is to inject all my performance data and visualize it as a data source into Grafana. My data comes from JMeter from a plugin, which is inserting data to InfluxDB, and ...
What advice do you have for others considering InfluxDB?
It is good to start with InfluxDB to stabilize your data, visualize your data, and have the data stored on a time-series basis. I would recommend everyone to get into InfluxDB and start using it. T...
 

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