The Best Cacti Monitoring Alternatives

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Cacti

Cacti is one of the most popular open-source network monitoring tools. Cacti allows you to monitor various metrics and look at them from its user-friendly, modern dashboard. Although it has a relatively steep learning curve, many businesses have chosen to make Cacti their network monitoring solution of choice.

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SolarWinds NPM

The SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is a paid tool, the best of the best. It’s a network monitoring solution to help you find, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues. The tool is mainly focused on maintaining the health of the devices within your network.

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Site24x7 Network Monitoring

Site24x7 Network Monitoring is offered by a cloud platform that provides SaaS plans with combinations of modules. The full plan is called Site24x7 Infrastructure and it includes server and service monitoring as well as network monitoring for wireless and wireless networks. This package also provides network traffic analysis. The whole system offers a cloud-based console, which can be accessed through any standard Web browser. The service reaches out to each protected network through an on-site agent.

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Paessler PRTG

The Paessler PRTG is another extremely popular monitoring software. Its main selling point is its modular model, letting you only pay attention to and purchase the sensors you need. The free version has all of the features of the paid version, just on a smaller scale.

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Nagios

Nagios is free for small environments with seven or fewer nodes and hosts. Its paid version starts at $1995 for the license and is priced per user. There is also a variety of free training options for Nagios available online. Both of Nagios’ paid versions include a free trial.

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Zabbix

The tool works on a server-agent basis, meaning you have to install the Zabbix agent on a server to have it monitored by the Zabbix server. It also supports all of the most popular operating systems, including Windows, Linux, macOS, Free and Open BSD, Solaris, etc.

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LibreNMS

LibreNMS is a fully-fledged network monitoring system supporting various device types and vendors, including Linux, Foundry, Cisco, and many others. As a result, it’s one of the most accessible tools on this list to use straight out of the box. In addition, its autodiscovery features help you spend as little time as possible setting it up.

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M/Monit

While the Network Monitoring service keeps an eye on devices, the Network Traffic Monitoring unit identifies network devices that are under stress. This helps you implement traffic shaping measures to eradicate bottlenecks while getting the best value out of your equipment. You can assess the Site24x7 Infrastructure system with its network monitoring unit with a 30-day free trial.

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Netdata

Netdata gives you access to sublime real-time health and performance monitoring for all your systems. The Netdata GitHub community has made its growth abundantly clear throughout its last six years of active development.

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ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer

The ManageEngine Netflow Analyzer provides you with various analysis and control features to enhance your monitoring experience. You will be provided with flow-based traffic monitoring, as well as in-depth traffic analysis features.

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MRTG

The MRTG is easy to configure and set up, with most automatic processes. In addition, the tool can create visual representations of your traffic in the last week, five weeks, or last year.

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