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



Tracebar is described as 'TraceBar puts a live traceroute in your macOS menubar. It continuously monitors the network path to any host, showing every hop’s latency, packet loss, and route changes in real time' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Tracebar for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Homebrew apps. The best Tracebar alternative is Nagios, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tracebar are Paessler PRTG Network Monitor, mtr, PingPlotter and Ping Tracer.
Nagios is a powerful monitoring system licensed under Nagios Enterprises that helps organizations identify and resolve IT infrastructure issues.



Comprehensive monitoring solution with over 200 sensor types, user-friendly interface, and powerful capabilities such as traffic analysis, failover clustering, and remote probes. Offers email and SMS alerts, supports SNMP and WMI, provides high-availability features and detailed reporting.




mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.


PingPlotter is a graphical traceroute and ping tool that visualizes network performance in a way that makes identifying the source of problems quicker and easier.

Ping Tracer continuously pings each network host between your computer and a given destination, helping visually identify the source of connectivity problems.

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...




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




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.



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.





Visual replacement for the standard ping utility. It helps you monitor TCP/IP targets, by sending echo requests and displaying the responses over a detailed list and a graph. It has all the functions of classical ping, and much more.
