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 Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows and Xfce. The best nload alternative is Nethogs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like nload are Munin, Cacti, iftop and IPtraf-ng.

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

nload

Free • Open Source
Network Monitor

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Nethogs
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Xfce
21 Nethogs alternatives
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.
- - Nethogs is the most popular Linux alternative to nload.
- - Nethogs is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to nload.
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Nethogs Features
Traffic Monitoring
Network activity
Munin
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
64 Munin alternatives
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.
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Munin Features
Network Tools
Cacti
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Windows
Linux
53 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...
- - Cacti is the most popular Windows alternative to nload.
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Cacti Features
Graphs
iftop
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
7 iftop alternatives
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?".
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iftop Features
Network activity
IPtraf-ng
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
11 IPtraf-ng alternatives
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...
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IPtraf-ng Features
Traffic Monitoring
Traffic Analysis
wavemon
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Network Analyzer
Linux
22 wavemon alternatives
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...
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wavemon Features
1. Command line interfacewavemon either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
WiFi Signal Measurement
Wireless
Network activity
ntop
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Mac
Windows
Linux
27 ntop alternatives
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.
- - ntop is the most popular Mac alternative to nload.
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ntop Features
Network Statistics
Server Monitoring
vnStat
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
BSD
10 vnStat alternatives
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.
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vnStat Features
Stats
Graphs
Network Graph
Network Statistics
Comments about vnStat as a Alternative to nload
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It could monitor and show your server network traffic stats monthly.
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Bandwhich
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
5 Bandwhich alternatives
Terminal bandwidth utilization tool. Contribute to imsnif/bandwhich development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Discontinued
Project unmaintained and fails to build: https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich/issues/264
trafshow
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
7 trafshow alternatives
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.
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trafshow Features
Traffic Monitoring
Traffic Analysis
Discontinued
Official website and app unavailable.
darkstat
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Network Analyzer
Mac
Linux
BSD
10 darkstat alternatives
darkstat is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process, captures network traffic, calculates statistics and serves them to a web browser.
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BandwidthD
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Network Analyzer
Statistical Analyzer
Linux
BSD
5 BandwidthD alternatives
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.
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BandwidthD Features
Graphs
Stats