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 Beszel, Nagios, Better Stack and Paessler PRTG Network Monitor.

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  1. Better Stack icon
    Sponsored

    AI-driven SRE platform offering real-time infrastructure monitoring, incident management, log analytics, traces, error tracking, metrics, real user monitoring, status pages, and a warehouse, with full data ingestion, centralized dashboard, custom alerts, and reduced costs.

    282 Better Stack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  2. Netdata icon
     69 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.

    66 Netdata alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • 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
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    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
  3. Nagios icon
     92 likes

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

    150 Nagios alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Nagios vs Zabbix Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    8

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

    • Nagios is Freemium and Open SourceZabbix is Free and Open Source
  4. 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.

    116 Paessler PRTG Network Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    39 LibreNMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    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.

    • LibreNMS is Free and Open SourceZabbix is also Free and Open Source
  6. Spiceworks icon
     84 likes

    Free IT help desk software delivers network mapping, user ticket tracking, PC inventory management, contract and asset scanning, remote process control, automated cloud-based reporting, project management, and task prioritization for small and medium businesses.

    140 Spiceworks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  7. HyperDX icon
     22 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
     
  8. Icinga icon
     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...

    71 Icinga alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. DeepFlow icon
     6 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)
     
  10. 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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. 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
     
  12. NetAlertX icon
     4 likes

    Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.

    27 NetAlertX alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Unraid
    • Docker
     
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