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Top 10 Open-Source Alternatives to SyWatchdog

Munin Zabbix Cacti Wireshark Netdata Nagios Datadog LibreNMS Cabot

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to SyWatchdog are vnStat, Munin, 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. 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

  2. 2
    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

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

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

  4. 4
    Cacti is a complete network graphing solution. It provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

  8. 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

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

    #Monitoring Tools #Network Monitoring #Performance Monitoring

  10. 10
    Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Website Monitoring #Uptime Monitoring 2 social mentions

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