10 Best Open Source Monitoring Software for IT Infrastructure

Monitoring Tools Log Management Performance Monitoring

Nagios Landing Page
1

Nagios

Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
Pricing:
- Open Source
Icinga, which began as Nagios Fork in 2009, got freed from the constraints of a fork and crafted Icinga 2, which is faster, easier to configure, more comfortable to scale significantly better.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management
Zabbix Landing Page
2

Zabbix

Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
Zabbix is a server-agent system architecture where you got to install the agent on a server (client) to be monitored by the Zabbix server. However, you don’t need to install the agent for services like FTP, SSH, HTTP, DNS, etc.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions
Checkmk Landing Page
3

Checkmk

Checkmk - the software for effective IT monitoring
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- €600.0 / Annually
- Official Pricing
Flexible monitoring: Over 1,900 official integrations provided ‘out of the box’. Monitor states, metrics, events & logs via Checkmk agents, vendor APIs, SNMP, or any way you prefer

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Incident Management 53 social mentions
Prometheus Landing Page
4

Prometheus

An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
This list won’t be complete without including two fantastic open-source solutions – Prometheus and Grafana. Its DIY solution where you use Prometheus to scrape the metrics from server, OS, applications and use Grafana to visualize them.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 218 social mentions
Grafana Landing Page
5

Grafana

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
Pricing:
- Open Source
This list won’t be complete without including two fantastic open-source solutions – Prometheus and Grafana. Its DIY solution where you use Prometheus to scrape the metrics from server, OS, applications and use Grafana to visualize them.

#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 193 social mentions
Cacti Landing Page
6

Cacti

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution. It provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Cacti is another open-source network monitoring tool that can be installed on Linux or Windows OS. It is connected to RRDTool, which allows us to generate graphs related to relevant network data.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management
OpenNMS Landing Page
7

OpenNMS

Project home page of OpenNMS - a java based network managememnt platform developed under the Open Source model
Pricing:
- Official Pricing
OpenNMS got built-in reporting, which means you can view the report in a beautiful dashboard and chart. Overall, OpenNMS got an excellent user interface.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management
Icinga Landing Page
8

Icinga

Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Icinga, which began as Nagios Fork in 2009, got freed from the constraints of a fork and crafted Icinga 2, which is faster, easier to configure, more comfortable to scale significantly better.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 8 social mentions
Netdata Landing Page
9

Netdata

Monitor your servers, containers, and applications, in high-resolution and in real-time.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $3.0 / Monthly (Netdata Pro, $3 /Node /mo - Netdata Business, $4 /Node /mo )
- Official Pricing
Netdata provides unparalleled real-time health monitoring and performance troubleshooting for systems and applications. Over the past six years of development, Netdata’s GitHub community has been essential to its growth.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Incident Management 5 social mentions
LibreNMS Landing Page
10

LibreNMS

A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support.
Pricing:
- Open Source
LibreNMS is a fully featured network monitoring system. It is based on PHP/MySQL/SNMP. LibreMNS covers a wide range of operating systems and network hardware.

#Monitoring Tools #Network Monitoring #Performance Monitoring