Free Cacti AlternativesNetwork Monitors and other similar apps like Cacti

The best free alternative to Cacti is Zabbix, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Cacti and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Cacti are Netdata, Nagios, HyperDX and Monitorix.

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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.

    122 Zabbix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  2. Netdata icon
     66 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.

    56 Netdata alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
     
  3. Nagios icon
     91 likes

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

    140 Nagios alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. 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
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  5. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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.

    109 Paessler PRTG Network Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. IT Asset Tool icon
     24 likes

    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
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. DeepFlow icon
     5 likes

    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

    65 DeepFlow alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Monit icon
     21 likes

    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. Munin icon
     45 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. Coroot icon
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    Coroot is an open-source observability and APM tool with AI-powered Root Cause Analysis. It combines metrics, logs, traces, continuous profiling, and SLO-based alerting with predefined dashboards and inspections.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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