Open Source Zabbix AlternativesTop Network Monitors and other similar apps like Zabbix

The best open source alternative to Zabbix is Nagios. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Zabbix and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Zabbix are Beszel, LibreNMS, Icinga and HyperDX.

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

    135 Nagios alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Nagios as an Alternative to Zabbix
    Guest
    Negative
    8

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

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Nagios is a great Zabbix alternative.

    • Nagios is the most popular Open Source alternative to Zabbix.

    • Nagios is Freemium and Open SourceZabbix is Free and Open Source
  2. Beszel icon
     6 likes

    Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions.

    10 Beszel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Cloudron
     
  3. 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...

    33 LibreNMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
     
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    Comments about LibreNMS as an Alternative to Zabbix
    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.
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    • Almost everyone thinks LibreNMS is a great Zabbix alternative.

    • LibreNMS is Free and Open SourceZabbix is also Free and Open Source
  4. 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...

    65 Icinga alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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  5. HyperDX icon
     19 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. Monitorix icon
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    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.

    22 Monitorix alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. DeepFlow icon
     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)
     
  8. NetXMS icon
     6 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. Pandora FMS icon
     70 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

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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    Comments about Pandora FMS as an Alternative to Zabbix
    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.
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    • Pandora FMS is Freemium and Open SourceZabbix is Free and Open Source
    • Pandora FMS is LightweightZabbix is not according to our users
  10. Monitor your Laravel applications with precision. Enhance performance and reliability with error tracking, comprehensive logs, and deep insights tailored specifically for Laravel.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Cabot icon
     18 likes

    Cabot is a free, open-source, self-hosted infrastructure monitoring platform that provides some of the best features of PagerDuty, Server Density, Pingdom and Nagios without their cost and complexity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Checkmk icon
     19 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.

    41 Checkmk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Python
     
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