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vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network...

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to vnStat

Zabbix Wireshark Cacti Munin Bandwhich gtop Nagios psutil Datadog Prometheus

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to vnStat are Zabbix, Wireshark, and Cacti. 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
    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

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

  2. 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

  3. 3
    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

  4. 4
    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

  5. Bandwhich is a command line application for tracking internet data and interface usage
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Exception Monitoring 4 social mentions

  6. 6
    System monitoring dashboard for terminal
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools #Performance Monitoring 2 social mentions

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

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

  8. 8
    psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools #Performance Monitoring 1 social mentions

  9. 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

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

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 224 social mentions

  11. 11
    ps and top for human beings
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Command Line Tools #Linux #Console Application

  12. 12
    Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions

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