Software Alternatives, Accelerators & Startups

netperf

Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It provides tests for both unidirectional throughput, and end-to-end latency. - HewlettPack...

Top 10 Open-Source Alternatives to netperf

netcat Wireshark tcpdump MiniUPnP benchmark.js Ostinato Icinga Zabbix

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to netperf are Flent, netcat, 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
    The FLExible Network Tester
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Network & Admin 7 social mentions

  2. 2
    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

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

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Security

  5. fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #OS & Utilities #Security

  6. miniupnp project homepage : a lightweight upnp client and daemon
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Productivity #Log Management 2 social mentions

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

    #SSH #Monitoring Tools #File Transfer 3 social mentions

  8. Ostinato is a packet crafter and traffic generator for network engineers. Wireshark in Reverse.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • $49.0 / One-off (1 user)

    #Monitoring Tools #Security #Security Monitoring 3 social mentions

  9. 9
    Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

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

  10. 10
    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

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

Suggest an alternative
If you think we've missed something, please suggest an alternative to netperf.
Please use the Feedback button if you think any of the listed products shouldn't be regarded as open-source.

netperf discussion

Log in or Post with