LibreNMS
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system (by librenms)
Cacti
Cacti ™ (by Cacti)
| LibreNMS | Cacti | |
|---|---|---|
| 70 | 23 | |
| 3,956 | 1,655 | |
| 1.6% | 0.8% | |
| 9.8 | 9.8 | |
| 3 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
LibreNMS
Posts with mentions or reviews of LibreNMS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-19.
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OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and remote networks
I recommend [librenms/librenms: Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system](https://github.com/librenms/librenms), which is Open source and free.
- LibreNMS: Open-source featured, network monitoring system
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Submitted a bug report - any help from Reddit?
Bug report is over here
- LibreNMS is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL-based network monitoring system
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System Resource Monitoring
I playing with LibreNMS in my lab, just for the heck of it.
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LibreNMS virtual machine image
git clone https://github.com/librenms/librenms.git
- Nokia 7360 ISAM FX SNMP MIB
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Network Monitoring Program
LibreNMS is awesome! It's a fork of Observium, but has a more "friendly" development philosophy—there's some history there.
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Mixed Vendor Network Monitoring and Management
- NMS / NPM: NetXMS, Zabbix, LibreNMS, PRTG - NCM, updates, automation: Unimus - IaC / automation: Ansible - DCIM / IPAM: NetBox - IPAM / DDI: Infoblox
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Mixed Platform for Switches and Wireless Access Points
However, you can try your luck with a more "all-in-one" like LibreNMS that includes a lot of stuff and quite an amount of integrations (like sflow, snmp, checkmk, etc...) which is probably what you're looking (the all in a single screen)
Cacti
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cacti.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-21.
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Periodic network saturation
If you have SNMP access to your switches, a very simple quick start is to use Cacti (https://www.cacti.net/) which will give you some nice graphs in no time at all. Far less complex than setting up/configuring a full monitoring system or NetFlow/SFlow.
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PHP errors with Cacti
This was fixed in the following commit https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/d1c1380ad9250c323f1dc874e26840c80edd3afb, I suggest upgrading cacti to at least the 1.2.20 version.
- CVE-2022-46169: Unauthenticated Command Injection in Cacti detected as being exploited in the wild - see comments
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What's a good free/cheap monitoring software?
Cactai is also free, but has a steep learning curve. https://www.cacti.net/
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Unifi SNMP & PRTG
Nice write-up! I've done similar with Cacti, which is free.
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Help out a new sysadmin?
Cacti - network monitoring
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Is there a good tool that I can deploy to a micro PC that can monitor/log/report different stats of network health?
https://www.cacti.net/.
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Show min / max temperatures in lm_sensors
Pretty simple request, but I couldn't find any solution on the internet, neither in Archwiki / Gentoowiki. There are some complicated things like cacti that can read sensord output, but that's a bit of overkill. I just want something like hwinfo64 for $forbidden_OS.
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Network Monitoring Solution
Just to throw this one out there, I use cacti https://www.cacti.net/ for my network monitoring.
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Possible to graph the number 'up' ports on a Cisco/extreme switch using SNMP
I''ve had good luck graphing our switch port statistics with Cacti.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing LibreNMS and Cacti you can also consider the following projects:
Zabbix - Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.
Munin - Main repository for munin master / node / plugins
Nagios - Nagios Core
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
LibreNMS-docker - LibreNMS Docker image
Centreon - Centreon is a network, system and application monitoring tool. Centreon is the only AIOps Platform Providing Holistic Visibility to Complex IT Workflows from Cloud to Edge.
Icinga2
Mikrotik-Router-Monitoring-System - SNMP based Router Monitoring System for Mikrotik Routers
Thruk - Thruk is a multibackend monitoring webinterface for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken using the Livestatus API.
cadvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.