Open Source Monit AlternativesNetwork Monitors and other similar apps like Monit

The best open source alternative to Monit is Nagios. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Monit and 15 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Monit are Monitorix, HyperDX, DeepFlow and Cabot.

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  1. 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 (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • This alternative is disputed. Nagios is a legitimate Monit alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Nagios is the most popular Open Source alternative to Monit.

    • Nagios is Freemium and Open SourceMonit is Free and Open Source
  2. Monitorix icon
     9 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. HyperDX icon
     19 likes

    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
    • HyperDX is the most popular SaaS alternative to Monit.

    • HyperDX is Freemium and Open SourceMonit is Free and Open Source
  4. DeepFlow icon
     5 likes

    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. Cabot icon
     18 likes

    Cabot is a free, open-source, self-hosted infrastructure monitoring platform that provides some of the best features of PagerDuty, Server Density, Pingdom and Nagios without their cost and complexity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. NetXMS icon
     6 likes

    NetXMS is an enterprise grade multi-platform open source network management and monitoring system. It provides comprehensive event management, performance monitoring, alerting, reporting and graphing for all layers of IT infrastructure — from network devices to business...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Docker
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. openITCOCKPIT icon
     11 likes

    Easy to use configuration web interface for nagios and neamon. openITCOCKPIT is a perfomant monitoring system with support for distributed monitoring (Satellites), REST API, nice dashboards, maps, graphs and a modular concept for easy customization.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Checkmk icon
     19 likes

    Checkmk is a monitoring tool of servers, applications, networks, cloud, containers, storage, databases, IoT and more. Checkmk is available as Raw Edition, which is 100% pure open source, and as Enterprise Edition with a lot of additional features.

    41 Checkmk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Python
     
  11. SigNoz icon
     18 likes

    Open source observability platform. SigNoz helps developers find issues in their deployed applications & solve them quickly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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