nload AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Network Monitors

The best Network Monitor alternative to nload is Munin, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to nload and 12 are Network Monitors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Network Monitor alternatives to nload are iftop, Cacti, IPtraf-ng and ntop.

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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...

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nload alternatives page was last updated Nov 18, 2020
  1. 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.

    65 Munin alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Munin Features

    1.  Network Tools
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  2. iftop icon
     14 likes

    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
    iftop screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    iftop Features

    1.  Network activity
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  3. 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...

    55 Cacti alternatives
    Cacti screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Cacti Features

    1.  Graphs
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    • Cacti is the most popular Windows alternative to nload.

    • Cacti is Free and Open Sourcenload is also Free and Open Source
  4.  3 likes

    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...

    11 IPtraf-ng alternatives
    IPtraf-ng screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    IPtraf-ng Features

    1.  Traffic Monitoring
    2.  Traffic Analysis

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  5. ntop icon
     18 likes

    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.

    26 ntop alternatives
    ntop screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    ntop Features

    1.  Network Statistics
    2.  Server Monitoring
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    • ntop is the most popular Mac alternative to nload.

    • ntop is Free and Open Sourcenload is also Free and Open Source
  6.  7 likes

    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...

    23 wavemon alternatives
    wavemon screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    wavemon Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  WiFi Signal Measurement
    3.  Wireless
    4.  Network activity

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  7.  10 likes

    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.

    10 vnStat alternatives
    Demo CGI page

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    vnStat Features

    1.  Stats
    2.  Graphs
    3.  Network Graph
    4.  Network Statistics

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    Comments about vnStat as an Alternative to nload
     
    Nanang F. Rozi

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

    Positive commentSep 28, 2017
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    • vnStat is Free and Open Sourcenload is also Free and Open Source
  8.  1 like

    Terminal bandwidth utilization tool. Contribute to imsnif/bandwhich development by creating an account on GitHub.

    5 Bandwhich alternatives
    Bandwhich screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Project unmaintained and fails to build: https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich/issues/264

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  9.  2 likes

    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.

    7 trafshow alternatives
    trafshow screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    trafshow Features

    1.  Traffic Monitoring
    2.  Traffic Analysis
    Discontinued

    Official website and app unavailable.

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    darkstat is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process, captures network traffic, calculates statistics and serves them to a web browser.

    10 darkstat alternatives
    darkstat screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    darkstat icon

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  11.  2 likes

    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.

    5 BandwidthD alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    BandwidthD Features

    1.  Graphs
    2.  Stats

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  12.  1 like

    Ethstatus is a console-based monitoring utility for displaying statistical data of the ethernet interface on a quantity basis. It is similar to iptraf but is meant to run as a permanent console task to monitor the network load.

    8 ethstatus alternatives
    ethstatus screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    ethstatus Features

    1.  Wireless
    2.  Network activity
    Discontinued

    No information available.

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