Zabbix Alternatives for Linux

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

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  1. Netdata icon
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    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

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
     
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  2. 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.

    143 Nagios alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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  3. Datadog icon
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    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.

    245 Datadog alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  4. 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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
     
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  5. 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

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. Track network performance with real-time monitoring for routers, switches, servers, and more. Supports Hyper-V, VMware, IP-based devices, offering visualization tools and fault management.

    53 ManageEngine OpManager alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. 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.

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    • Linux
     
  8. Dynatrace icon
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    Dynatrace combines the industry’s broadest observability and runtime application security with predictive, causal, and generative in a unified platform to deliver answers and intelligent automation from data.

    68 Dynatrace alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  9. NetXMS icon
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    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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Docker
     
  10. 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.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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  11. Munin icon
     46 likes

    Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.

    72 Munin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  12. 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

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Python
     
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