Free Cacti Alternatives

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 DeepFlow.

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Cacti alternatives are mainly Network Monitors but may also be Uptime Monitor Services or Website Monitoring Tools.  Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Cacti.
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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
  1. WhatsUp Gold icon
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    Quickly identify and resolve issues in your hybrid cloud through intuitive workflows, system integrations, and unmatched out-of-the-box functionality.

    45 WhatsUp Gold alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    WhatsUp Gold Features

    1.  Infrastructure monitoring
    2.  Performance Monitoring
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  2. Netweak icon
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    Netweak is a delightful, minimalist monitoring platform that gives you insights on performance and availability for your linux servers & websites.

    149 Netweak alternatives
    Netweak screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    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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  3. Observium icon
     24 likes

    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
    Observium screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Website Monitoring
    3.  Ad-free
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  4. SigNoz icon
     18 likes

    Open source observability platform. SigNoz helps developers find issues in their deployed applications & solve them quickly.

    181 SigNoz alternatives
    SigNoz screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    SigNoz Features

    1.  Application Monitoring
    2.  APM monitoring
    3.  Server Monitoring
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  5. ntop icon
     18 likes

    NTop is a hybrid layer 2 / layer 3 network monitor, that is by default it uses the layer 2 Media Access Control (MAC) addresses AND the layer 3 tcp/ip addresses. ntop is capable of associating the two, so that ip and non-ip traffic (e.g.

    26 ntop alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    ntop Features

    1.  Network Statistics
    2.  Server Monitoring
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  6. Pandora FMS icon
     66 likes

    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

    • FreemiumOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Real time collaboration
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Command line interface
    4.  Auto Responder
    5.  Desktop Sharing
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  Website Monitoring
    9.  Server Monitoring
    10.  Application Monitoring
    11.  Network Mapping
    12.  High Availability
    13.  Performance Monitoring
    14.  Cloud Monitoring
    15.  Hardware Monitoring
    16.  IPAM
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  7. NIXStats icon
     12 likes

    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.

    173 NIXStats alternatives
    NIXStats screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online

    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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  8. Checkmk icon
     18 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.

    39 Checkmk alternatives
    Checkmk Dashboard

    License model

    • FreemiumOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker

    Checkmk Features

    1.  Distributed Monitoring
    2.  Performance Monitoring
    3.  Server Monitoring
    4.  Storage Monitoring
    5.  Downtime Detection
    6.  Application Monitoring
    7.  Computer monitoring
    8.  Database Monitoring
    9.  Kubernetes Monitoring
    10.  NGINX Monitoring
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  9.  10 likes

    nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic using two graphs and provides additional info like total amount of transfered data and min/max network usage.

    13 nload alternatives
    nload screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris

    nload Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Graphs
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  10.  7 likes

    wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application that allows you to watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and network parameters of your wireless network hardware. It should work (though with varying features) with all devices supported by the...

    23 wavemon alternatives
    wavemon screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    wavemon Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  WiFi Signal Measurement
    3.  Wireless
    4.  Network activity
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  11. NAV icon
     5 likes

    NAV (Network Administration Visualized) is a free software program to monitor networks, developed by UNINETT and used by universities and corporations around the world.

    28 NAV alternatives
    IP device info

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  12.  10 likes

    vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source.

    10 vnStat alternatives
    Demo CGI page

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    vnStat Features

    1.  Stats
    2.  Graphs
    3.  Network Graph
    4.  Network Statistics
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