ntop Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to ntop for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Datadog. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try iftop or Cacti. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to ntop and 16 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to ntop are nload, IPtraf-ng, wavemon and vnStat.

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  1. Datadog icon

    Datadog

     77 likes

    Monitor and visualize your IT and DevOps environments seamlessly with over 120 integrations, enabling real-time insight across on-premise and cloud deployments. Utilize robust analytics, graphing, and correlation tools for error logging and network monitoring. Improve collaboration and proactive IT management.

    237 Datadog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  2. iftop icon

    iftop

     15 likes

    iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question "why is our ADSL link so slow?".

    9 iftop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  4. Cacti icon

    Cacti

     25 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...

    57 Cacti alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. N

    nload

     10 likes

    nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic using two graphs and provides additional info like total amount of transfered data and min/max network usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
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    it's simple and runs in terminal

    • nload is Free and Open Sourcentop is also Free and Open Source
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    IPtraf-ng

     3 likes

    iptraf-ng is a fork of original iptraf-3.0.0. IPTraf-ng is a console-based network monitoring utility. IPTraf-ng gathers data like TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte...

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    • Linux
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  7. W

    wavemon

     7 likes

    wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application that allows you to watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and network parameters of your wireless network hardware. It should work (though with varying features) with all devices supported by the...

    21 wavemon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. V

    vnStat

     9 likes

    vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  10. Intermapper icon

    Intermapper

     7 likes

    Diagnose network performance problems in real-time with Intermapper, network monitoring software from HelpSystems. Powerful, reliable, and user-friendly, Intermapper helps network professionals stay ahead of outages by monitoring the performance of all your physical and virtual...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Bandwidth monitoring and traffic analysis that lets you pick a time period and dig in for historical performance.
     
  11. T

    trafshow

     2 likes

    TrafShow continuously display the information regarding packet traffic on the configured network interface that match the boolean expression. It periodically sorts and updates this information.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  12. Pinguzo icon

    Pinguzo

     1 like

    Website Monitoring and Linux Server Monitoring.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    darkstat

     1 like

    darkstat is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process, captures network traffic, calculates statistics and serves them to a web browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  14. ntopng icon

    ntopng

     2 likes

    ntopng is the next generation version of the original ntop, a network traffic probe that monitors network usage. ntopng is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform, MacOSX and on Windows as well.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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