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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. subtitle

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Wireshark

Zabbix Datadog tcpdump netcat Cacti Aircrack-ng HTTP Toolkit mitmproxy Angry IP Scanner Nagios

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Wireshark are Zabbix, Datadog, 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.
  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. 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

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

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Security

  4. 4
    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

  5. 5
    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

  6. Aircrack-ng is an 802.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Network & Admin #Security & Privacy 1 social mentions

  7. Beautiful, cross-platform & open-source tools to debug, test & build with HTTP(S). One-click setup for browsers, servers, Android, CLI tools, scripts and more.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • €7.0 / Monthly (for a Pro subscription)

    #Software Development #Development Tools #Security 24 social mentions

  8. mitmproxy is an SSL-capable man-in-the-middle proxy for HTTP.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #Security #Software Development 81 social mentions

  9. Open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Network Scanning #Network Security 32 social mentions

  10. 10
    Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

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

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

  12. 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

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