Open Source Nagios AlternativesTop Network Monitors and other similar apps like Nagios

The best open source alternative to Nagios is Zabbix. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Nagios and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Nagios are Icinga, Cockpit Project, Beszel and LibreNMS.

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  1. Zabbix icon
     200 likes

    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.

    119 Zabbix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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    Zabbix vs Nagios Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    -1

    Innovative UI and complex functions.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Zabbix is Free and Open SourceNagios is Freemium and Open Source
    • Zabbix is Privacy focusedNagios is not according to our users
  2. Icinga icon
     36 likes

    Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible. So, Nagios configurations, plugins and addons can all be used with Icinga. Though Icinga retains all the existing features of its predecessor, it builds on them to add many long awaited patches and features requested by the...

    66 Icinga alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. Cockpit Project icon
     39 likes

    Makes it easy to administer Linux servers via a web browser. It allows you to easily perform simple tasks like storage administration, inspecting journals, starting & stopping services, monitoring & administering several servers at once.

    34 Cockpit Project alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
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    Cockpit Project vs Nagios Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Cockpit is great for what it does, but if a host is offline, all information about it is inaccessible.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Cockpit Project is Free and Open SourceNagios is Freemium and Open Source
    • Cockpit Project is LightweightNagios is not according to our users
  4. Beszel icon
     6 likes

    Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions.

    12 Beszel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Cloudron
     
  5. LibreNMS icon
     37 likes

    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...

    33 LibreNMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
     
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    LibreNMS vs Nagios Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Best open source tool that I've tried! Easy to install, manage and low support.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Teke2
    Positive
    0

    So easy to setup, very powerful, and can use the Nagios plugins.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • LibreNMS is Free and Open SourceNagios is Freemium and Open Source
  6. 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
     
  7. Pandora FMS icon
     70 likes

    Enterprise-ready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes.

    39 Pandora FMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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.

    42 Checkmk alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Python
     
  10. HyperDX icon
     19 likes

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

    77 HyperDX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  11. 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
     
  12. Shinken icon
     10 likes

    Shinken is an open source computer system and network monitoring software application compatible with Nagios. It's written in Python and therefore is able to run on all platforms where a Python interpreter is available.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
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