Free Nagios Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Nagios for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Linux alternative is Zabbix, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Nagios and loads of them are free and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Linux alternatives to Nagios are Netdata, Icinga, Cockpit Project and LibreNMS.

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  1. Zabbix icon
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    Gather and analyze accurate statistics and performance metrics, visualize it, get notified about current and potential issues without delay, and take advantage of our time-tested professional development and support.

    125 Zabbix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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  2. Netdata icon
     68 likes

    Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications.

    62 Netdata alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
     
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  3. Icinga icon
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    Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible. So, Nagios configurations, plugins and addons can all be used with Icinga. Though Icinga retains all the existing features of its predecessor, it builds on them to add many long awaited patches and features requested by the...

    69 Icinga alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. Cockpit Project icon
     41 likes

    Makes it easy to administer Linux servers via a web browser. It allows you to easily perform simple tasks like storage administration, inspecting journals, starting & stopping services, monitoring & administering several servers at once.

    36 Cockpit Project alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Self-Hosted
     
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  5. LibreNMS icon
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    LibreNMS is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL based network monitoring system forked from Observium. LibreNMS aims to be easy to use, painless to deploy, and support monitoring of a wide range of devices. Observium's license changed to a modified QPL license in May 2012, and...

    35 LibreNMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
     
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  6. Monitorix icon
     9 likes

    Monitorix is a system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. Due to its simplicity and small size it can also be used on embedded devices.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Pandora FMS icon
     71 likes

    Enterprise-ready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  8. NetXMS icon
     7 likes

    NetXMS is an enterprise grade multi-platform open source network management and monitoring system. It provides comprehensive event management, performance monitoring, alerting, reporting and graphing for all layers of IT infrastructure — from network devices to business...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Docker
     
  9. Cacti icon
     26 likes

    Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain graphs, data sources, and Round Robin archives in a...

    59 Cacti alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Checkmk icon
     20 likes

    Checkmk is a monitoring tool of servers, applications, networks, cloud, containers, storage, databases, IoT and more. Checkmk is available as Raw Edition, which is 100% pure open source, and as Enterprise Edition with a lot of additional features.

    49 Checkmk alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Python
     
  11. Shinken icon
     10 likes

    Shinken is an open source computer system and network monitoring software application compatible with Nagios. It's written in Python and therefore is able to run on all platforms where a Python interpreter is available.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  12. VictoriaMetrics can be used as long-term storage for Prometheus or for vmagent.

    21 VictoriaMetrics alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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