Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft Network Monitor

Product categories

Application Performance Monitoring Bug Trackers CD Image Creator Cloud Computing Crash Reporting Error Tracking Log Management Monitoring Tools Performance Monitoring Productivity Security Security & Privacy

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Microsoft Network Monitor are Wireshark, Aircrack-ng, and tcpdump. 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.

Wireshark Landing Page
1

Wireshark

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
Aircrack-ng Landing Page
2

Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is an 802.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Network & Admin #Security & Privacy 1 social mentions
tcpdump Landing Page
3

tcpdump

tcpdump is a common packet analyzer that runs under the command line.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Security
netcat Landing Page
4

netcat

Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Productivity 7 social mentions
Suricata Landing Page
5

Suricata

Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Cyber Security #Tool 12 social mentions
Zed Attack Proxy Landing Page
6

Zed Attack Proxy

The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Application Security #Security #Security & Privacy
Sysdig Landing Page
7

Sysdig

Sysdig is an open source, system-level exploration that capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security #Monitoring Tools #Developer Tools 2 social mentions
Nagios Landing Page
8

Nagios

Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management
LibreNMS Landing Page
9

LibreNMS

A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Network Monitoring #Performance Monitoring
hashcat Landing Page
10

hashcat

The World's Fastest CPU/GPU powered password cracker.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #CD Image Creator #Personal Finance 44 social mentions
Datadog Landing Page
11

Datadog

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
Zabbix Landing Page
12

Zabbix

Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions