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Top 8 Open-Source Alternatives to socat

netcat tcpdump Wireshark MiniUPnP Zabbix Datadog Ostinato Nagios

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to socat are netcat, tcpdump, 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
    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

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

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Security

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

    #Monitoring Tools #Productivity #Log Management 2 social mentions

  5. 5
    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 8
    Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

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