iftop AlternativesNetwork Monitors and other similar apps like iftop

iftop is described as 'Does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question "why is our ADSL link so slow?"' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are nine alternatives to iftop for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Oracle Solaris apps. The best iftop alternative is Sniffnet, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like iftop are Nethogs, bmon, ntop and nload.

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    Nethogs

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    NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process.

    25 Nethogs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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    bmon

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    bmon is a free and open-source monitoring and debugging tool to monitor bandwidth and capture and display networking-related statistics. It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and programmable text output for scripting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    ntop

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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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    nload

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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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    IPtraf-ng

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    iptraf-ng is a fork of original iptraf-3.0.0. IPTraf-ng is a console-based network monitoring utility. IPTraf-ng gathers data like TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte...

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    • Linux
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    IPtraf

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    IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility for Linux. It gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    bwm-ng

     Like

    Bandwidth Monitor NG is a small and simple console-based live network and disk io bandwidth monitor for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and others.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • Mac
     
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    chitose

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    An iftop alternative for cumulated network traffic monitoring.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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