Cicada AlternativesNetwork Monitors and other similar apps like Cicada

Cicada is described as 'Supported protocols: ICMP (ping), SNMP v1/2c/3, WMI, Modbus TCP, IPMI, FTP and http/s (plain-text, json, xml)' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Cicada for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Web-based, Windows, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Cicada alternative is Zabbix, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cicada are Netdata, Nagios, Datadog and Spiceworks.

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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

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    • 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.

    50 Netdata alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
     
  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
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  4. Datadog icon
     77 likes

    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.

    233 Datadog alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  5. Spiceworks icon
     84 likes

    Spiceworks is a software suite for IT professionals to manage networks, troubleshoot issues, and handle IT tasks. It offers free online tools for network connectivity management, remote computer access, user activity monitoring, contract tracking, and inventory scanning.

    133 Spiceworks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  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.

    22 Monitorix alternatives

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    • 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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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.

    68 Munin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Icinga icon
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    Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible. So, Nagios configurations, plugins and addons can all be used with Icinga. Though Icinga retains all the existing features of its predecessor, it builds on them to add many long awaited patches and features requested by the...

    66 Icinga alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. The Dude icon
     22 likes

    The Dude network monitor is a new application by MikroTik which can dramatically improve the way you manage your network environment. It will automatically scan all devices within specified subnets, draw and layout a map of your networks, monitor services of your devices and...

    30 The Dude alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
    • MikroTik RouterOS
     
  12. Cacti icon
     25 likes

    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 graphs, data sources, and Round Robin archives in a...

    57 Cacti alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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