Cacti

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free

Open source

Yes (GPL-2.0)

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2001

Status

Active

Website

cacti.net

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Network monitoring checklist

8 of 10 confirmed in Cacti's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Network.

• + SNMP polling Yes
• + Flow analysis Yes
• + Device discovery Yes
• + Topology maps Yes
• ? Latency and path Not confirmed
• + Bandwidth graphs Yes
• + Syslog and traps Yes
• + Configuration backup Yes
• + Alerting Yes
• ? Wireless Not confirmed

Flow (FlowView), maps (Weathermap), syslog, router config backup (Routerconfigs) and alerting (Thold) come from official Cacti plugins.

Checked against: github.com, github.com (2), github.com (3)

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