IPtraf-ng AlternativesNetwork Monitors and other similar apps like IPtraf-ng

IPtraf-ng is described as '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' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to IPtraf-ng for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Flathub apps. The best IPtraf-ng alternative is Resources, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like IPtraf-ng are Glances, GNOME System Monitor, jdSystemMonitor and Nethogs.

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  1. Resources icon
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    Resources is a simple yet powerful monitor for your system resources and processes, written in Rust and using GTK 4 and libadwaita for its GUI.

    121 Resources alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
    • Resources is the most popular Linux alternative to IPtraf-ng.

    • Resources is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to IPtraf-ng.

    • Resources is Free and Open SourceIPtraf-ng is also Free and Open Source
    • Resources is Privacy focused and LightweightIPtraf-ng is not according to our users
  2. Glances icon
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    Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a large amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface. The information dynamically adapts depending on the size of the user interface.

    67 Glances alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • Glances is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to IPtraf-ng.

    • Glances is Free and Open SourceIPtraf-ng is also Free and Open Source
    • Glances is LightweightIPtraf-ng is not according to our users
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    jdSystemMonitor is an advanced, desktop-independent system monitor for Linux. Its goal is to provide as much information about your system as possible, with a focus on process management.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  5. iftop icon
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    iftop 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?".

    9 iftop alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  6. nmon icon
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    This systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool gives you a huge amount of important performance information in one go. It can output the data in two ways

    16 nmon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Atop icon
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    An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on system-level and process-level.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. 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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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.

    12 nload alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
     
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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.

    4 IPtraf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    An iftop alternative for cumulated network traffic monitoring.

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    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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