Cacti AlternativesOnly Free apps categorised as Website Monitoring Tools

The best free Website Monitoring alternative to Cacti is Netdata. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Cacti and seven of them are free Website Monitoring Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Website Monitoring Tool alternatives to Cacti are Netweak, Observium, Pandora FMS and NIXStats.

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Cacti is a 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...

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Cacti alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022
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  1. Netdata icon
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    Netdata

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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.

    44 Netdata alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • Bash
    fully automated, interactive, real-time dashboards

    Top Netdata Features

    1.  No Coding Required
    2.  Real time collaboration
    3.  Lightweight
    4.  Dark Mode
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  No Tracking
    7.  Privacy focused
    8.  Ad-free
    9.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    10.  Website Monitoring
    11.  Server Monitoring
    12.  Real-time Statistics
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    • 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
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    Netweak

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    Netweak is a delightful, minimalist monitoring platform that gives you insights on performance and availability for your linux servers & websites.

    148 Netweak alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Top Netweak Features

    1.  Website Monitoring
    2.  Performance Monitoring
    3.  Cloud Monitoring
    4.  Server Monitoring
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  Status Page
    8.  Incident Management
    9.  Metrics
    10.  Discord Notifications
    11.  Embeddable
    12.  Slack Notifications
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    Observium

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    Observium is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP and many more.

    52 Observium alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD

    Observium Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Website Monitoring
    3.  Lightweight
    4.  Ad-free
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    Pandora FMS

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    Enterprise-ready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes.

    37 Pandora FMS alternatives
    Pandora FMS visual console

    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    Pandora FMS dashboard
    Pandora FMS SLA report
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    Top Pandora FMS Features

    1.  Real time collaboration
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Command line interface
    4.  Auto Responder
    5.  Desktop Sharing
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Privacy focused
    8.  Lightweight
    9.  Dark Mode
    10.  Website Monitoring
    11.  Server Monitoring
    12.  Application Monitoring
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  6. NIXStats icon
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    NIXStats

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    SaaS monitoring tool for linux servers and websites. Think up-time robot but with more features. You can monitor your linux hosts, windows hosts under development.

    172 NIXStats alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
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    NIXStats Features

    1.  Website Monitoring
    2.  Computer monitoring
    3.  Server Monitoring
    4.  Performance Monitoring
    5.  Downtime Detection
    Discontinued

    While the website is still up, the application and monitoring agent has not received any updates in over a year.Newer major versions of Debian are no longer compatible.Additionally, it appears the project has been sold and merged into another product, see https://github.com/NIXStats/nixstatsagent/issues/60.

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  7. AppPerfect Agentless Monitor icon
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    AppPerfect Agentless Monitor

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    Agentless monitor covers most of the aspects of monitoring like JAVA / J2EE application monitoring, server monitoring, database monitoring, transaction monitoring, network monitoring, log monitoring and system monitoring and last, but not the least is available for free.

    30 AppPerfect Agentless Monitor alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    AppPerfect Agentless Monitor Features

    1.  Website Monitoring
    2.  Application Monitoring
    3.  Server Monitoring
    4.  Database Monitoring
    5.  Performance Monitoring
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    CloudMonix

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    CloudMonix provides advanced cloud monitoring and automation for applications and services deployed on the Microsoft Azure and AWS platforms and built with MSPs, CSPs and DevOps in mind.

    131 CloudMonix alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Microsoft Azure

    CloudMonix Features

    1.  Website Monitoring
    2.  Cloud Monitoring
    3.  Hardware Monitoring
    4.  Services monitoring
    5.  Server Monitoring
    6.  Data visualization
    7.  Performance Monitoring
    8.  Logging
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