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iperf

A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to iperf

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Wireshark Zabbix tcpdump benchmark.js netcat Nagios Bit-Twist Speed Test by Cloudflare Suricata

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to iperf are Wireshark, Flent, and Zabbix. 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. 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

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

  2. 2
    The FLExible Network Tester
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Log Management #Monitoring Tools #Tool 7 social mentions

  3. 3
    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

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

  4. tcpdump is a common packet analyzer that runs under the command line.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Productivity #Time Tracking #Log Management

  5. A benchmarking library that supports high-resolution timers & returns statistically significant results.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Log Management #Monitoring Tools #Network & Admin 3 social mentions

  6. 6
    Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Productivity #Time Tracking #Log Management 7 social mentions

  7. 7
    Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Infrastructure Monitoring #Application Performance Monitoring #Log Management

  8. Bit-Twist is a powerful packet generator (10Gbps on single core) and editor, written in POSIX-compliant C. Designed to complement tcpdump, it can replay captured traffic from pcap files onto live networks and supports Windows, Linux, BSD, and macOS.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security Monitoring #Network Monitoring #Network Security

  9. speed.cloudflare.com is a tool that allows you to measure the speed and consistency of your connection to the Internet. You can use it to verify that the speed your ISP promised you is the speed you are getting.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Networking #Speed Test 208 social mentions

  10. Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Cyber Security #Tool 15 social mentions

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    TuxCut is a netcut "in Windows OS" like software written in PyQt.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Email Marketing #Log Management #Monitoring Tools

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

    #Application Performance Monitoring #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 278 social mentions

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