darkstat AlternativesNetwork Monitors & Network Analyzers like darkstat

darkstat is described as 'Packet sniffer which runs as a background process, captures network traffic, calculates statistics and serves them to a web browser' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are nine alternatives to darkstat for Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Oracle Solaris. The best darkstat alternative is Munin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like darkstat are Cacti, ntop, nload and wavemon.

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  1. Munin icon
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    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
     
    • Munin is the most popular Linux alternative to darkstat.

    • Munin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to darkstat.

    • Munin is Free and Open Sourcedarkstat is also Free and Open Source
  2. Cacti icon
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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 graphs, data sources, and Round Robin archives in a...

    57 Cacti alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Cacti is the most popular Windows alternative to darkstat.

    • Cacti is Free and Open Sourcedarkstat is also Free and Open Source
  3. ntop icon
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    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.

    27 ntop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • ntop is the most popular Mac alternative to darkstat.

    • ntop is Free and Open Sourcedarkstat is also Free and Open Source
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
     
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    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...

    21 wavemon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    TrafShow continuously display the information regarding packet traffic on the configured network interface that match the boolean expression. It periodically sorts and updates this information.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    BandwidthD tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds html files with graphs to display utilization. Charts are built by individual IPs, and by default display utilization over 2 day, 8 day, 40 day, and 400 day periods.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. BLËSK icon
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    BLËSK is a suite of applications for network monitoring and management. All of the applications within BLËSK are finely tuned for the purpose having all your network monitoring applications running smoothly on a single machine.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • BLËSK is the most popular commercial alternative to darkstat.

    • BLËSK is Paid and Proprietarydarkstat is Free and Open Source
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