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Cacti

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution. It provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Cacti

Zabbix Datadog Wireshark Nagios LibreNMS Prometheus Grafana Icinga Checkmk Munin

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Cacti are Zabbix, Datadog, and Wireshark. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. 1
    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

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

  2. See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog's cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $15.0 / Monthly (per host)

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Error Tracking 5 social mentions

  3. Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 11 social mentions

  4. 4
    Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

  5. A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Network Monitoring #Performance Monitoring

  6. An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 224 social mentions

  7. Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions

  8. 8
    Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

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

  9. Checkmk - the software for effective IT monitoring
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • €600.0 / Annually

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

  10. 10
    PnP networked resource monitoring tool that can help to answer the what just happened to kill our performance
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 17 social mentions

  11. 11
    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 )

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

  12. 12
    vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 4 social mentions

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