Free Zabbix AlternativesTop Network Monitors and other similar apps like Zabbix

The best free alternative to Zabbix is Netdata. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Zabbix and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Zabbix are Nagios, Beszel, Spiceworks and Paessler PRTG Network Monitor.

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  1. Netdata icon

    Netdata

     66 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.

    56 Netdata alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
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    Netdata vs Zabbix Comments
    Pierre-Yves Landuré
    0

    Zabbix is a fully free and open source monitoring solution. Netdata is a commercial solution with a closed-source web service with a free tier and an open source agent to send data to the web service.

    Netdata isn't a fully open source solution.

    • Netdata is Freemium and ProprietaryZabbix is Free and Open Source
    • Netdata is LightweightZabbix is not according to our users
  2. Nagios icon

    Nagios

     91 likes

    Nagios is a powerful monitoring system licensed under Nagios Enterprises that helps organizations identify and resolve IT infrastructure issues.

    140 Nagios alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    Home
     
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    Nagios vs Zabbix Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    8

    You have to pay, the open source edition is really poor

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Nagios is Freemium and Open SourceZabbix is Free and Open Source
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    Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

    Comprehensive monitoring solution with over 200 sensor types, user-friendly interface, and powerful capabilities such as traffic analysis, failover clustering, and remote probes. Offers email and SMS alerts, supports SNMP and WMI...

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    Spiceworks

     84 likes

    Spiceworks is a software suite for IT professionals to manage networks, troubleshoot issues, and handle IT tasks. It offers free online tools for network connectivity management, remote computer access, user activity monitoring, contract tracking, and inventory scanning.

    135 Spiceworks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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    Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

     42 likes

    Comprehensive monitoring solution with over 200 sensor types, user-friendly interface, and powerful capabilities such as traffic analysis, failover clustering, and remote probes. Offers email and SMS alerts, supports SNMP and WMI, provides high-availability features and detailed reporting.

    109 Paessler PRTG Network Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. LibreNMS icon

    LibreNMS

     37 likes

    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...

    33 LibreNMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
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    LibreNMS vs Zabbix Comments
    tonymurray
    Positive
    0

    LibreNMS has a much better license model and does a comprehensive job of monitoring the network with little configuration.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • LibreNMS is Free and Open SourceZabbix is also Free and Open Source
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    HyperDX

     19 likes

    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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    Icinga

     36 likes

    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...

    68 Icinga alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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    Monitorix

     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.

    23 Monitorix alternatives

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    • Linux
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    DeepFlow

     5 likes

    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

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

     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
    Proactive monitoring for hybrid systems
     
  15. Pandora FMS icon

    Pandora FMS

     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.

    39 Pandora FMS alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
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    Pandora FMS vs Zabbix Comments
    MrOta
    Positive
    0

    More features and more scalable

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    denwulf
    Positive
    0

    The Community edition already provides official Netflow and Oracle monitoring plugins for free

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Pandora FMS is Freemium and Open SourceZabbix is Free and Open Source
    • Pandora FMS is LightweightZabbix is not according to our users
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