darkstat Alternatives

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 more than 10 alternatives to darkstat for Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Solaris. The best darkstat alternative is Munin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like darkstat are Cacti, nload, wavemon and ntop.

darkstat alternatives are mainly Network Monitors but may also be Network Analyzers or Statistical Analyzers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of darkstat.

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darkstat

Free • Open Source
Network Monitor

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Munin
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
63 Munin alternatives
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.
- - Munin is the most popular Linux alternative to darkstat.
- - Munin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to darkstat.
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Munin Features
Network Tools
Cacti
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Windows
Linux
52 Cacti alternatives
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...
- - Cacti is the most popular Windows alternative to darkstat.
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Cacti Features
Graphs
nload
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
BSD
Solaris
13 nload alternatives
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.
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1. Command line interfacenload either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Graphs
wavemon
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Network Analyzer
Linux
22 wavemon alternatives
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...
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1. Command line interfacewavemon either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
WiFi Signal Measurement
Wireless
Network activity
ntop
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Mac
Windows
Linux
26 ntop alternatives
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.
- - ntop is the most popular Mac alternative to darkstat.
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ntop Features
Network Statistics
Server Monitoring
vnStat
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
BSD
10 vnStat alternatives
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.
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vnStat Features
Stats
Graphs
Network Graph
Network Statistics
trafshow
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
7 trafshow alternatives
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.
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trafshow Features
Traffic Monitoring
Traffic Analysis
Discontinued
Official website and app unavailable.
BandwidthD
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Network Analyzer
Statistical Analyzer
Linux
BSD
5 BandwidthD alternatives
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.
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BandwidthD Features
Graphs
Stats
ethstatus
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Network Analyzer
Linux
8 ethstatus alternatives
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.
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ethstatus Features
Wireless
Network activity
Discontinued
No information available.
BLËSK
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Paid • Proprietary
Network Monitor
Linux
54 BLËSK alternatives
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.
- - BLËSK is the most popular commercial alternative to darkstat.
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BLËSK Features
Network Tools
Network Scanner
Network activity