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10 Best Open Source Monitoring Software for IT Infrastructure

Nagios Zabbix Checkmk Prometheus Grafana Cacti OpenNMS Icinga Netdata LibreNMS
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    Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Icinga, which began as Nagios Fork in 2009, got freed from the constraints of a fork and crafted Icinga 2, which is faster, easier to configure, more comfortable to scale significantly better.

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

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    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free
    Zabbix is a server-agent system architecture where you got to install the agent on a server (client) to be monitored by the Zabbix server. However, you don’t need to install the agent for services like FTP, SSH, HTTP, DNS, etc.

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions

  3. Checkmk - the software for effective IT monitoring
    Pricing:
    Flexible monitoring: Over 1,900 official integrations provided ‘out of the box’. Monitor states, metrics, events & logs via Checkmk agents, vendor APIs, SNMP, or any way you prefer

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Incident Management 53 social mentions

  4. An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    This list won’t be complete without including two fantastic open-source solutions – Prometheus and Grafana. Its DIY solution where you use Prometheus to scrape the metrics from server, OS, applications and use Grafana to visualize them.

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 219 social mentions

  5. Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    This list won’t be complete without including two fantastic open-source solutions – Prometheus and Grafana. Its DIY solution where you use Prometheus to scrape the metrics from server, OS, applications and use Grafana to visualize them.

    #Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 194 social mentions

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    Cacti is a complete network graphing solution. It provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Cacti is another open-source network monitoring tool that can be installed on Linux or Windows OS. It is connected to RRDTool, which allows us to generate graphs related to relevant network data.

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

  7. Project home page of OpenNMS - a java based network managememnt platform developed under the Open Source model
    OpenNMS got built-in reporting, which means you can view the report in a beautiful dashboard and chart. Overall, OpenNMS got an excellent user interface.

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

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    Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Icinga, which began as Nagios Fork in 2009, got freed from the constraints of a fork and crafted Icinga 2, which is faster, easier to configure, more comfortable to scale significantly better.

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 8 social mentions

  9. Monitor your servers, containers, and applications, in high-resolution and in real-time.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $3.0 / Monthly (Netdata Pro, $3 /Node /mo - Netdata Business, $4 /Node /mo )
    Netdata provides unparalleled real-time health monitoring and performance troubleshooting for systems and applications. Over the past six years of development, Netdata’s GitHub community has been essential to its growth.

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Incident Management 5 social mentions

  10. A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    LibreNMS is a fully featured network monitoring system. It is based on PHP/MySQL/SNMP. LibreMNS covers a wide range of operating systems and network hardware.

    #Monitoring Tools #Network Monitoring #Performance Monitoring

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