nload AlternativesNetwork Monitors and other similar apps like nload

nload is described as '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' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to nload for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows and Go (Programming Language) apps. The best nload alternative is Munin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like nload are Nethogs, iftop, Cacti and ntop.

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  1. Munin icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • Munin is the most popular Linux alternative to nload.

    • Munin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to nload.

    • Munin is Free and Open Sourcenload is also Free and Open Source
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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
     
  3. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Cacti icon
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    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
     
    • Cacti is the most popular Windows alternative to nload.

    • Cacti is Free and Open Sourcenload is also Free and Open Source
  5. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • ntop is the most popular Mac alternative to nload.

    • ntop is Free and Open Sourcenload is also Free and Open Source
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application that allows you to watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and network parameters of your wireless network hardware. It should work (though with varying features) with all devices supported by the...

    21 wavemon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    It could monitor and show your server network traffic stats monthly.

    • vnStat is Free and Open Sourcenload is also Free and Open Source
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    TrafShow continuously display the information regarding packet traffic on the configured network interface that match the boolean expression. It periodically sorts and updates this information.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    BandwidthD tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds html files with graphs to display utilization. Charts are built by individual IPs, and by default display utilization over 2 day, 8 day, 40 day, and 400 day periods.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    An iftop alternative for cumulated network traffic monitoring.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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