Comparison of network monitoring systems
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The following tables compare general and technical information for several notable network monitoring systems. For more information, please refer to the individual product articles.
Features
[edit ]| Name | IP SLA reports | Logical grouping | Trending | Trend prediction | Auto discovery | Agentless | SNMP | Syslog | Plugins | Triggers / alerts | MIB compiler | Web app | Distributed monitoring | Inventory | Platform | Data storage method | License | Maps | Access control | IPv6 | Latest release date | Latest release version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cacti | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | PHP | RRDtool, MySQL, MariaDB | GNU GPL | Via plugin | Yes | Yes | 2025年03月23日 | 1.2.30 |
| Checkmk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | C, Python | RRDtool | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2025年05月06日 | 2.4 |
| collectd | No | No | No | No | Push model; multicast possible |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Viewing | Yes | No | C | RRDtool | GNU GPL | No | Apache ACL | Yes | 2020年09月03日 | 5.12 |
| Cruz | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | Java, C++, .NET | MySQL, Oracle | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2019-02 | 8.0.0 |
| FreeNATS | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Via plugin | Yes | In PHP Code | No | Full Control | No | No | PHP | MySQL [1] | GNU GPL | No | Yes | Unknown | 2018年11月14日 | 1.20.1b |
| Ganglia | No | Yes | Yes | No | Via gmond check in | No | Via plugin | No | Yes | No | No | Viewing | Yes | Unknown | C, PHP | RRDtool | BSD | Yes | No | Unknown | 2016年06月14日 | 3.7.2 |
| Icinga | Via plugin | Yes | Yes | No | Via plugin | Yes | Via plugin | Via plugin | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Via plugin | C[2] | MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL [3] | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2025年06月18日 | 2.15.0[4] |
| InterMapper | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Viewing | Yes | Yes | Windows, Linux & Mac OS | PostgreSQL | Limited free, Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2017-07 | 6.1.5 |
| isyVmon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Via plugin | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Via plugin | PHP | RRDtool, MySQL | Limited free, Commercial | Via plugin | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
| Munin | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | No | Viewing | Via nodes | Unknown | Perl | RRDtool | GNU GPL | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | 2021年02月22日 | 2.0.67 |
| Nagios | Via plugin | Yes | Yes | No | Via plugin | Yes | Via plugin | Via plugin | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Via plugin | C | Flat file, SQL (via ndoutils), MySql (Via Nconf) | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes[5] | 2022年04月14日 | 4.4.7[6] |
| Netdisco | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Perl | PostgreSQL | BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2024年09月13日 | 2.079001[7] |
| NetXMS | Unknown | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | C, Java | PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB, MariaDB, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, SQLite | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2024年04月15日 | 4.5.6 |
| NeuralStar | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | Unknown | MS SQL | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
| Octopussy | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full control | No | Yes | Perl, ASP | MySQL | GNU GPL | No | Yes | No | 2017年06月03日 | 1.0.16 |
| op5 Monitor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Via plugin | C, PHP | Flat file, SQL | Limited free, Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Monthly | 7.3.0 |
| OpenKBM | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Proprietary with JDBC support | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
| OpenNMS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Full Control | Yes | Yes | Java | JRobin / RRDTool / Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL | AGPLv3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2025年08月13日 | 34.0.0 |
| OPNET's AppResponse Xpert | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Viewing, Acknowledging, Reporting | Yes | No | Unknown | Unknown | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| OSI NetExpert | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Java, C++ | Oracle | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2013-04 | 10.0 |
| PacketTrap | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Viewing, Reporting | Yes | Yes | Unknown | SQL | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
| Pandora FMS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | Perl, PHP, C++, JavaScript | MySQL, Percona Server for MySQL [8] | GPLv2, Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2024年06月11日 | 7.0 NG 777 |
| PA Server Monitor | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Viewing, Acknowledging, Reporting | Yes | Yes | Windows, C++, .NET | SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server | Limited free, Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2025-06 | 9.5 |
| Performance Co-Pilot | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Optional, Limited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Viewing | Yes | Yes | C Perl, Python, POSIX, MinGW | Flat file | GPL, LGPL | No | Yes | Yes | 2025年03月27日 | 6.3.7 |
| PRTG | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Full Control | Yes | Yes | Delphi | Flat file | Limited free, Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2025年03月18日 | 25.1.104 |
| ScienceLogic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | Python | MySQL | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
| SevOne | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | C, C++, PHP | MySQL | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2022-11 | 6.4[9] |
| Shinken | Via plugin | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Via plugin | Via plugin | Yes | Yes | No | Viewing, Acknowledging, Reporting | Yes | Via plugin | Python | Flat file, MySQL, Oracle, Graphite, Sqlite, MongoDB | AGPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2016年03月10日 | 2.4.3 |
| SolarWinds | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | .NET | SQL | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
| Spiceworks | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | PHP | Sqlite | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | 2018年03月21日 | 7.5.00107 |
| Xymon/Hobbit | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Via plugin | Via plugin | Via plugin | No | Yes | Yes | No | Viewing, Acknowledging, Reporting | Yes | Via plugin | C, Shell | Flat file, RRDTool, MySQL via plugin | GNU GPL | Via plugin | Apache ACL | No | 2019年09月05日 | 4.3.30 |
| Zabbix | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | C, PHP | MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Percona Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite [10] | AGPLv3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2025年09月29日; 2025年09月30日; 2025年10月01日 | 7.0.19[11] Edit this on Wikidata |
| Zenoss Core | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | Python, Java | ZODB, MariaDB, Apache HBase | Free Core GPL, Commercial Enterprise | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2018年01月09日 | 6.1.0 |
| ZIS-System | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Full Control | Yes | Yes | Windows | MariaDB | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2020年02月01日 | 5.8 |
| Name | IP SLA Reports | Logical Grouping | Trending | Trend Prediction | Auto Discovery | Agentless | SNMP | Syslog | Plugins | Triggers / Alerts | MIB Compiler | WebApp | Distributed Monitoring | Inventory | Platform | Data Storage Method | License | Maps | Access Control | IPv6 | Latest release date | Latest release version |
Legend
[edit ]- Product name
- The name of the software, linked to its Wikipedia article.
- IP SLAs reports
- Support of Cisco's IP Service Level Agreement mechanism.
- Logical grouping
- Supports arranging the hosts or devices it monitors into user-defined groups.
- Trending
- Provides trending of network data over time.
- Trend prediction
- The software features algorithms designed to predict future network statistics.
- Auto discovery
- The software automatically discovers hosts or network devices it is connected to.
- Agentless
- The product does not rely on a software agent that must run on hosts it is monitoring, so that data can be pushed back to a central server. "Supported" means that an agent may be used, but is not mandatory. An SNMP daemon does not count as an agent.
- SNMP
- Able to retrieve and report on SNMP statistics.
- Syslog
- Able to receive and report on Syslogs.
- Plugins
- Architecture of the software based on a number of 'plugins' that provide additional functionality.
- Triggers / alerts
- Capable of detecting threshold violations in network data, and alerting the administrator in some form.
- MIB compilter
- Able to read MIB data, to quickly understand what resources are being managed.
- Web app
- Runs as a web-based application.
- No: There is no web-based frontend for this software.
- Viewing: Network data can be viewed in a graphical web-based frontend.
- Acknowledging: Users can interact with the software through the web-based frontend to acknowledge alarms or manipulate other notifications.
- Reporting: Specific reports on network data can be configured by the user and executed through the web-based frontend.
- Full Control: ALL aspects of the product can be controlled through the web-based frontend, including low-level maintenance tasks such as software configuration and upgrades.
- Distributed monitoring
- Able to leverage more than one server to distribute the load of network monitoring.
- Inventory
- Keeps a record of hardware and/or software inventory for the hosts and devices it monitors.
- Platform
- The platform (Coding Language) on which the tool was developed/written.
- Data storage method
- Main method used to store the network data it monitors.
- License
- License released under (e.g. GPL, BSD license, etc.).
- Maps
- Features graphical network maps that represent the hosts and devices it monitors, and the links between them.
- Access control
- Features user-level security, allowing an administrator to prevent access to certain parts of the product on a per-user or per-role basis.
- IPv6
- Supports monitoring IPv6 hosts and/or devices, receiving IPv6 data, and running on an IPv6-enabled server. Supports communication using IPv6 to the SNMP agent via an IPv6 address.
References
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- ^ "Intro - Icinga 2 - Icinga Wiki". Archived from the original on 2013年09月27日. Retrieved 2013年06月25日.
- ^ "Debian - Icinga DB". icinga.com. Retrieved 2024年03月25日.
- ^ "Icinga2 Changelog". GitHub . 2025年09月04日.
- ^ "NRPE IPv6 Support". Archived from the original on 2024年07月24日. Retrieved 2013年10月07日.
- ^ "Nagios Core Changelog" . Retrieved 2021年01月07日.
- ^ "Releases · netdisco/netdisco · GitHub". GitHub . Retrieved 2024年09月20日.
- ^ "Installation [current]". pandorafms.com. Retrieved 2024年03月25日.
- ^ "Announcing IBM SevOne Network Performance Management Version 6.4". IBM .
- ^ "2 Requirements". www.zabbix.com. Retrieved 2023年11月28日.
- ^ "Release Notes for Zabbix 7.0.19". 29 September 2025. Retrieved 8 October 2025.