Cacti Alternatives

Cacti is described as 'Complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain graphs, data sources, and Round Robin archives in a' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Cacti for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Web-based, Self-Hosted and Mac apps. The best Cacti alternative is Zabbix, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cacti are Netdata, Nagios, Datadog and Monitorix.

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  1. When a server goes down, it costs not only money but also productivity loss and reputational damage. The majority of the servers go down because of a full disk. Logs are getting too big, or disk images cache grows without bounds.

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    • Free Personal
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    • Online
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  2. Statance icon
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    Server Monitoring and Down Alerts made easy! WIndows, Linux & macOS Monitor servers easily and receive alerts on CPU, RAM or downtime.

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    • Freemium
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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Online
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    LANState is a simple NMS with the network topology mapping and device monitoring functions. Add hosts to a graphical network map and monitor their state in the real time. Receive failure notifications when hosts and services go down.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. BLËSK icon
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    BLËSK is a suite of applications for network monitoring and management. All of the applications within BLËSK are finely tuned for the purpose having all your network monitoring applications running smoothly on a single machine.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
     
  5. AppOptics icon
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    Monitor applications, infrastructure, and servers in one platform. Out-of-the-box dashboards. Metrics. Analytics. Starting at $7.50/month. Free 14-day trial.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
     
  6. Agentless monitor covers most of the aspects of monitoring like JAVA / J2EE application monitoring, server monitoring, database monitoring, transaction monitoring, network monitoring, log monitoring and system monitoring and last, but not the least is available for free.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. UISP is Ubiquiti Network's management platform for all UISP, LTU, airMAX, airFiber devices. It also includes built in CRM and billing for ISPs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    LoggiFly is a lightweight tool that monitors Docker container logs for predefined keywords or regex patterns and sends notifications.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  9. Bloonix icon
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    Bloonix is a software for monitoring IT infrastructures. With Bloonix everything can be monitored what is to be reached about a network connection and for which there is a Plugin. Hardware components can be also monitored on which Bloonix cannot be installed, as for example...

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    • Linux
     
  10. CloudMonix icon
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    CloudMonix provides advanced cloud monitoring and automation for applications and services deployed on the Microsoft Azure and AWS platforms and built with MSPs, CSPs and DevOps in mind.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Microsoft Azure
     
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