mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- 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 15 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to PingPlotter are Nagios, SmokePing, Open Visual Traceroute and Munin.
mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.


Nagios is a powerful monitoring system licensed under Nagios Enterprises that helps organizations identify and resolve IT infrastructure issues.





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...




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.




Doesn't do multiple simultaneous traces, no continuous monitoring. Log files not sufficient.


Some users think Open Visual Traceroute is a great PingPlotter alternative, some don't.
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.


Pingnoo is an open-source Windows, macOS and Linux visual trace route analyser.



Free version offers more than PingPlotter's free does. Though full PngPlotter is more feature reach.


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...



Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.




NetTK, Network Tool Kit, is an Open Source alternative for monitoring and troubleshooting your network.
fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.

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.