PingPlotter Alternatives for Linux
PingPlotter is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is mtr, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to PingPlotter and 14 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to PingPlotter are Nagios, SmokePing, Munin and Pingnoo.
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PingPlotter alternatives are mainly Network Monitors, but if you're looking for Network Analyzers or Uptime Monitor Services you can filter on that. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to PingPlotter.- Network Monitor
- Paid • Proprietary
- 32 mtr alternatives
mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Country of Origin
Netherlands
EU
Platforms
- Linux
mtr Features
- 124 Nagios alternatives
Nagios is a powerful monitoring system licensed under Nagios Enterprises that helps organizations identify and resolve IT infrastructure issues.
License model
- Freemium • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Linux
Nagios Features
Comments about Nagios as an Alternative to PingPlotter
- 27 SmokePing alternatives
SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- 63 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.
Munin Features
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
DiscontinuedThe last version is from April 2021.
Pingnoo Features
Comments about Pingnoo as an Alternative to PingPlotter
Free version offers more than PingPlotter's free does. Though full PngPlotter is more feature reach.
- 8 Open Visual Traceroute alternatives
Open source cross-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac) Java Visual Traceroute, packet sniffer and Whois. Data is displayed in a 3D or a 2D map component.
Open Visual Traceroute Features
Comments about Open Visual Traceroute as an Alternative to PingPlotter
Doesn't do multiple simultaneous traces, no continuous monitoring. Log files not sufficient.
Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Homebrew
Trippy Features
fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Fping (open source) Features
CloudView is a standards-based network management and monitoring system (NMS). It can auto-discover, monitor and perform many functions with any vendor SNMP or TCP/IP devices. It provides consistent geographical view of your whole network (thousands of IP nodes and hundreds...
CloudView NMS Features
Nagios would be better if you need a service that monitors multiple devices. PingPlotter can handle multiple device monitoring, and there is some slight overlap, but is more for single-target temporary monitoring and is far less suited to long-term monitoring.