Cacti AlternativesNetwork Monitors and other similar apps like Cacti

Cacti is described as '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' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Cacti for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Web-based, Self-Hosted and Mac apps. The best Cacti alternative is Zabbix, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cacti are Netdata, Nagios, Datadog and HyperDX.

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  1. Zabbix icon
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    Gather and analyze accurate statistics and performance metrics, visualize it, get notified about current and potential issues without delay, and take advantage of our time-tested professional development and support.

    119 Zabbix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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    • Most users think Zabbix is a great Cacti alternative.

    • Zabbix is the most popular Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Cacti.

    • Zabbix is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Cacti.

    • Zabbix is Free and Open SourceCacti is also Free and Open Source
    • Zabbix is Privacy focusedCacti is not according to our users
  2. 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.

    48 Netdata alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
     
    • Netdata is the most popular Web-based & Mac alternative to Cacti.

    • Netdata is Freemium and ProprietaryCacti is Free and Open Source
    • Netdata is Lightweight and Privacy focusedCacti is not according to our users
  3. 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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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  4. 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.

    229 Datadog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • Datadog is the most popular Windows alternative to Cacti.

    • Datadog is the most popular commercial alternative to Cacti.

    • Datadog is Paid and ProprietaryCacti is Free and Open Source
  5. HyperDX icon
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    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
    • HyperDX is the most popular SaaS alternative to Cacti.

    • HyperDX is Freemium and Open SourceCacti is Free and Open Source
  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. 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...

    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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    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.

    110 Paessler PRTG Network Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. DeepFlow icon
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    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

    61 DeepFlow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Monit icon
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    Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

    41 Monit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11. IT Asset Tool icon
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    IT Asset Tool is a powerful free software to inventor and monitor your network. It's easy approach allows to operate in a short time. With an essential interface, IT Asset Tool analyzes all windows hosts including their software and hardware features for an efficent...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Munin icon
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    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.

    67 Munin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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