Collectd is only one part here. Did you need a solution for inline processing/aggregation and alerting? If not, you wouldn't run into TICK. It's not common overall, because few environments need to go that far.
I don't get the comparison to LAMP popularity. Insects are more common than cars too. They're different things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mentioned lamp as an example of an acronym and stack that would be more common to ask why it wasn't chosen. In retrospect that probably wasn't the ideal way of getting to my point that tick isn't a common stack so asking why not it because it's common seems weird.
> If not, you wouldn't run into TICK. It's not common overall, because few environments need to go that far.
That's my point though. The post I replied to acted as though everyone knows of and uses it, but provided no information on what makes it a better choice for such usecases.
I don't get the comparison to LAMP popularity. Insects are more common than cars too. They're different things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯