Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/influxdata/telegraf/vs/pingcap/tidb
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/influxdata/telegraf/vs/pingcap/tidb.md
Description: telegraf and tidb share 16 technologies: Gorilla, MySQL, github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty/v6, golang.org/x/oauth2, github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, Prometheus, github.com/prometheus/client_model, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, github.com/prometheus/prometheus, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/cloudwatch, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ec2, and github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts. Both are written in Go.

# telegraf vs tidb

telegraf and tidb share 16 technologies: Gorilla, MySQL, github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty/v6, golang.org/x/oauth2, github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, Prometheus, github.com/prometheus/client_model, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, github.com/prometheus/prometheus, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/cloudwatch, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ec2, and github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts. Both are written in Go.

- [influxdata/telegraf](https://seerepo.com/r/influxdata/telegraf): Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
- [pingcap/tidb](https://seerepo.com/r/pingcap/tidb): TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Gorilla, MySQL, github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty/v6, golang.org/x/oauth2, github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, Prometheus, github.com/prometheus/client_model, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, github.com/prometheus/prometheus, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/cloudwatch, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ec2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts
- Only in telegraf: go-redis, MongoDB, pgx, sarama, SQLite, github.com/microsoft/go-mssqldb, github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.golang, RabbitMQ, ClickHouse, Consul, github.com/coocood/freecache, github.com/nsqio/go-nsq, github.com/sijms/go-ora/v2, NATS.io, Rclone, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/dynamodb, github.com/elastic/elastic-transport-go/v8, github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2, github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2, Kafka, github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5, cloud.google.com/go/auth, github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal, github.com/pavlo-v-chernykh/keystore-go/v4, github.com/xdg/scram, goldmark, github.com/antchfx/xpath, github.com/antchfx/xmlquery, github.com/moby/moby/api, github.com/prometheus/client_golang, github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22, github.com/moby/moby/client, github.com/aliyun/alibaba-cloud-sdk-go, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/ec2/imds, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/cloudwatchlogs, github.com/compose-spec/compose-go, github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/v2, github.com/sirupsen/logrus, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric
- Only in tidb: net/http, s3, TiDB, etcd, github.com/cockroachdb/pebble, go.etcd.io/etcd/api/v3, go.etcd.io/etcd/server/v3, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager, Dgraph, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azblob, github.com/jellydator/ttlcache/v3, go.etcd.io/etcd/client/pkg/v3, Google, github.com/cheggaaa/pb/v3, gorm.io/gorm, openai-go, go.uber.org/zap, go.opencensus.io, github.com/grafana/pyroscope-go, github.com/prometheus/common, github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/common

## Side by side

| | telegraf | tidb |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 518,336 lines written, 1,558 code files | 1,752,108 lines written, 1,549 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and OpenHands | 0% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 11,705 commits, 17,896 stars | Last push November 6, 2026, 27,911 commits, 40,711 stars |
| Tests | 711 test files. 80.7% of its code files have a test that imports them | 2,905 test files. 90.3% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, telegraf or tidb?

tidb, with 1,752,108 lines written; telegraf has 518,336.

The proof: [pingcap/tidb's code at commit a5a597d](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/tree/a5a597dfb7921e43a43065f197d064b2af92d85e)

### Which has more GitHub stars, telegraf or tidb?

tidb, with 40,711 stars; telegraf has 17,896.

The proof: [pingcap/tidb on GitHub](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb)

### Which has more tests, telegraf or tidb?

tidb, with 2,905 test files; telegraf has 711.

The proof: [pingcap/tidb's code at commit a5a597d](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/tree/a5a597dfb7921e43a43065f197d064b2af92d85e)

### Which was updated more recently, telegraf or tidb?

Both got their last push on November 6, 2026.

The proof: [influxdata/telegraf's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/commits)

## Sources

- influxdata/telegraf: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit b1bf01d (https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/b1bf01df942ba8cd53ac7d9188f9d00b79c8bfc6)
- pingcap/tidb: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit a5a597d (https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/tree/a5a597dfb7921e43a43065f197d064b2af92d85e)

## What is your repo built with?

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