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 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. openITCOCKPIT icon
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    openITCOCKPIT

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    Easy to use configuration web interface for nagios and neamon. openITCOCKPIT is a perfomant monitoring system with support for distributed monitoring (Satellites), REST API, nice dashboards, maps, graphs and a modular concept for easy customization.

    50 openITCOCKPIT alternatives
    Customizable dashboard

    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    openITCOCKPIT Features

    1.  Support for Multiple Users
    2.  Configurable
    3.  Hardware Monitoring
    4.  Application Monitoring
    The openITCOCKPIT SAP monitoring module allows for a comprehensive and resource-efficient monitoring of SAP environments. After an easy-to-perform installation, the user has access to pre-assigned, best-practice host and service templates.
    A variety of reports enable users to present the captured values in a business-oriented form: Using Instant Report, users can select any time period and then receive an overview of all outages that occurred during those requested dates. Current State reports show the current status of any services with Downtime reports providing information on host and service downtimes.
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    Comprehensive Business Service Monitoring with correlations
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    darkstat

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    darkstat is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process, captures network traffic, calculates statistics and serves them to a web browser.

    10 darkstat alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Axibase Time Series Database icon
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    Axibase Time Series Database

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    ATSD is purpose-built for analyzing and reporting on massive volumes of time-series data collected at high frequency. Features include data analytics, visualization, data forecasting, reporting, alerting. All in one product built for big data.

    26 Axibase Time Series Database alternatives
    ATSD Visualization Portal Example

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    Axibase Time Series Database Features

    1.  Data visualization
    2.  All in one
    3.  Hardware Monitoring
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  5. Pinguzo icon
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    Pinguzo

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    Website Monitoring and Linux Server Monitoring.

    18 Pinguzo alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
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  6. LogRhythm Network Monitor icon
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    LogRhythm Network Monitor

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    Network Monitor is a commercial-grade network forensics and traffic analytics solution that provides deep network visibility, powering threat detection and efficient incident response.

    41 LogRhythm Network Monitor alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    LogRhythm Network Monitor Features

    1.  Traffic Analysis
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  7. ethstatus

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    Ethstatus is a console-based monitoring utility for displaying statistical data of the ethernet interface on a quantity basis. It is similar to iptraf but is meant to run as a permanent console task to monitor the network load.

    8 ethstatus alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux

    ethstatus Features

    1.  Wireless
    2.  Network activity
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  9. Intermapper icon
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    Intermapper

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    Diagnose network performance problems in real-time with Intermapper, network monitoring software from HelpSystems. Powerful, reliable, and user-friendly, Intermapper helps network professionals stay ahead of outages by monitoring the performance of all your physical and virtual...

    39 Intermapper alternatives
    Bandwidth monitoring and traffic analysis that lets you pick a time period and dig in for historical performance.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Intermapper Features

    1.  Network Mapping
    2.  Traffic Monitoring
    See network devices laid on an actual map for organizations with distributed offices.
    Map your network the way it makes sense to you, and see real-time performance metrics in the Status Window.
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    View devices on a Google Earth map.
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    Trafikito

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    Trafikito is free Linux servers monitoring solution which by default checks RAM, disk space, CPU and sends you an email if something is wrong.

    97 Trafikito alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android

    Trafikito Features

    1.  Hardware Monitoring
    2.  Performance Monitoring
    3.  Server Monitoring
    Desktop & mobile dashboard
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    One place to see all your servers
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  11. CloudStats icon
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    CloudStats

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    Cloud based network monitoring software that allows you to monitor servers, virtual machines, cloud and websites.

    87 CloudStats alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online

    CloudStats Features

    1.  Server Monitoring
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  12. CloudView NMS icon
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    CloudView NMS

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    CloudView is a standards-based network management and monitoring system (NMS). It can auto-discover, monitor and perform many functions with any vendor SNMP or TCP/IP devices. It provides consistent geographical view of your whole network (thousands of IP nodes and hundreds...

    22 CloudView NMS alternatives
    This is a view from the local server GUI. HTML-5 remote web interface looks similar

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    CloudView NMS Features

    1.  Network Mapping
    2.  Private MIB compiler
    Remote GUI from Android smartphone
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  13. Disk Notifier icon
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    Disk Notifier

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    When a server goes down, it costs not only money but also productivity loss and reputational damage. The majority of the servers go down because of a full disk. Logs are getting too big, or disk images cache grows without bounds.

    10 Disk Notifier alternatives

    License model

    • Free Personal • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    Disk Notifier Features

    1.  Hardware Monitoring
    2.  Disk Monitoring
    3.  Telegram integration
    4.  Server Monitoring
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    Statance

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    Server Monitoring and Down Alerts made easy! WIndows, Linux & macOS Monitor servers easily and receive alerts on CPU, RAM or downtime.

    127 Statance alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    Statance Features

    1.  Web-Based
    2.  Performance Monitoring
    3.  Server Monitoring
    4.  Cloud Monitoring
    5.  Application Monitoring
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