10 Open source Network Monitoring Tools
Networking monitoring and availability in your environment is critical to maintaining your service level agreements(SLAs) with clients. With popular tools such as Solarwinds and ipMonitor being pretty expensive for the average company – this important element in network infrastructure is often overlooked.
Let’s look at a 10 open source alternatives to the big commercial solutions.
Note this table does not list all features of these packages, but merely shows the most common features you would expect to find in a Network Monitoring Tool.
|
Network
|
Host
|
Extendable
|
Notification
|
Platform
|
Graphs
|
Web Client
|
Auto Discovery
|
Realtime
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
L
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
N
|
Y
|
L
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
W/L
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
N
|
Y
|
W/L
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
W/L/M
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
N
|
Y
|
W/L
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
Y
|
N
|
N
|
W/L
|
Y
|
Y
|
N
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
N
|
Y
|
N
|
W/L
|
Y
|
Y
|
N
|
Y
|
|
|
Y
|
N
|
Y
|
N
|
L
|
Y
|
Y
|
N
|
N
|
|
|
Y
|
N
|
Y
|
N
|
L
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
N
|
Network: SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING
Host: Processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.
Extentable: Plugins, API
Notficiation: Email, instant message, SMS, etc.
VMWare: Includes an Appliance for testing with vmWare Server or Viewer
Legend:
L = Linux
W = Windows
M = OS X
Y = Yes
N = No
