Munin Alternatives

Munin is described as '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' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Munin for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Munin alternative is Zabbix, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Munin are Netdata, Nagios, Datadog and LibreNMS.

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

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Munin

Free • Open Source
Network Monitor

Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill...

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Zabbix
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
Self-Hosted
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
108 Zabbix alternatives
Gather and analyze accurate statistics and performance metrics, visualize it, get notified about current and potential issues without delay, and take advantage of our time-tested professional development and support.
- - Zabbix is the most popular Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Munin.
- - Zabbix is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Munin.
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Zabbix Features
Server Monitoring
Hardware Monitoring
Azure integration
Custom Dashboard
Netdata
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Mac
Linux
Online
BSD
Self-Hosted
C (programming language)
Python
JavaScript
Node.JS
Bash
39 Netdata alternatives
Infrastructure-wide health monitoring & performance troubleshooting in one place. Collaborate in the same place as relevant data from your systems and applications, reducing mean time to acknowledge (MTTA), & mean time to resolution. (MTTR).
- - Netdata is the most popular Web-based & Mac alternative to Munin.
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Netdata Features
1. Website MonitoringNetdata can detect and resolve website performance issues proactively.
Server Monitoring
Real-time Statistics
Hardware Monitoring
Cloud Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
Traffic Monitoring
Standalone
Time Series
Kubernetes Monitoring
Support for Docker
Nagios
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Freemium • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
121 Nagios alternatives
Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
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Nagios Features
On-premises software
Hardware Monitoring
Remote Management
Datadog
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Paid • Proprietary
Network Monitor
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
197 Datadog alternatives
Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev & Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into a unified view of IT infrastructure. 120+ Integrations!.
- - Datadog is the most popular Windows alternative to Munin.
- - Datadog is the most popular commercial alternative to Munin.
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Datadog Features
Cloud Monitoring
APM monitoring
Network Mapping
Performance Monitoring
Server Monitoring
LibreNMS
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
BSD
MySQL Community Edition
Apache HTTP Server
JavaScript
PHP
28 LibreNMS alternatives
LibreNMS is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL based network monitoring system forked from Observium. LibreNMS aims to be easy to use, painless to deploy, and support monitoring of a wide range of devices. Observium's license changed to a modified QPL license in May 2012, and...
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LibreNMS Features
Network Discovery
SNMP Trap Support
IT Asset Management
PingPlotter
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Paid • Proprietary
Network Monitor
Mac
Windows
iPhone
iPad
34 PingPlotter alternatives
PingPlotter is a graphical traceroute and ping tool that visualizes network performance in a way that makes identifying the source of problems quicker and easier.
- - PingPlotter is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Munin.
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PingPlotter Features
Trace Route
Visual Graphing
Network Tools
Cabot
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Uptime Monitor Service
Self-Hosted
107 Cabot alternatives
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.
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Cabot Features
1. Website MonitoringCabot can detect and resolve website performance issues proactively.
Paessler PRTG Network Monitor
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Paid • Proprietary
Network Monitor
Windows
Online
Self-Hosted
Software as a Service (SaaS)
103 Paessler PRTG Network Monitor alternatives
An advanced network monitoring solution to monitor network up/downtime, traffic and usage. Features include availability, performance, and bandwidth monitoring (SNMP, WMI, packet sniffing, NetFlow), instant alerts, reporting, failover clustering.
- - Paessler PRTG Network Monitor is the most popular SaaS alternative to Munin.
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Paessler PRTG Network Monitor Features
1. Website MonitoringPaessler PRTG Network Monitor can detect and resolve website performance issues proactively.
2. PortablePaessler PRTG Network Monitor can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Traffic Monitoring
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...
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Cacti Features
Graphs
Checkmk
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Freemium • Open Source
Network Monitor
Uptime Monitor Service
Windows
Linux
Docker
36 Checkmk alternatives
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.
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Checkmk Features
Distributed Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
Server Monitoring
Storage Monitoring
Downtime Detection
Application Monitoring
Computer monitoring
Database Monitoring
Kubernetes Monitoring
NGINX Monitoring
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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nload Features
1. Command line interfacenload either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Graphs
Netweak
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Freemium • Proprietary
Uptime Monitor Service
Network Monitor
Online
Software as a Service (SaaS)
136 Netweak alternatives
Netweak is a delightful, minimalist monitoring platform that gives you insights on performance and availability for your linux servers & websites.
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Netweak Features
1. Website MonitoringNetweak can detect and resolve website performance issues proactively.
Performance Monitoring
Cloud Monitoring
Server Monitoring
Status Page
Incident Management
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