Private Eye Alternatives

Private Eye is described as 'See connections in real-time: When an app makes a network connection, you see it instantly on your screen. There's no delay and you don't have to use a separate recording mode' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are six alternatives to Private Eye for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Online / Web-based, Self-Hosted solutions and PortableApps.com. The best alternative is TCPView, which is free. Other great apps like Private Eye are Paessler PRTG Network Monitor, CurrPorts, Netactview and PortsMonitor.

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Private Eye

Free • Proprietary
Network Monitor
Mac

See connections in real-time: When an app makes a network connection, you see it instantly on your screen. There's no...

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TCPView
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
PortableApps.com
13 alternatives to TCPView
TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections.
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TCPView Features
1. PortableTCPView can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Paessler PRTG Network Monitor
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Paid • Proprietary
Network Monitor
Windows
Online
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Self-Hosted
101 alternatives to Paessler PRTG Network Monitor
An advanced network monitoring solution to monitor network up/downtime, traffic and usage. Features include availability, performance, and bandwidth monitoring (SNMP, WMI, packet sniffing, NetFlow), instant alerts, reporting, failover clustering.
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Paessler PRTG Network Monitor Features
1. Website MonitoringPaessler PRTG Network Monitor can detect and resolve website performance issues proactively.
2. PortablePaessler PRTG Network Monitor can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Traffic Monitoring
CurrPorts
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
19 alternatives to CurrPorts
CurrPorts is network monitoring software that displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the...
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CurrPorts Features
1. PortableCurrPorts can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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Netactview
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
14 alternatives to Netactview
Netactview is a graphical network connections viewer for Linux, similar in functionality with Netstat. It includes features like process information, host name retrieval, automatic refresh and sorting.
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Netactview Features
1. Malware AnalysisNetactview can inspect a suspicious file or URL to detect potential threats.
PortsMonitor
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
10 alternatives to PortsMonitor
PortsMonitor is a system utility for monitoring system TCP/IP network connections by application, and connections' status. With Search Expression support, you can filter connection with preferred conditions.

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TCPEye
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Free • Proprietary
Network Monitor
Windows
13 alternatives to TCPEye
TCPEye is an easy-to-use monitoring application that will display a list of all network processes. It sports all the features of "netstat" command and adds some options of its own as well as some third party online tools for IP tracing.
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TCPEye Features
Network activity