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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

Trend prediction	Inventory	Platform	Access control	IPv6	Latest release date	Latest release version		Cacti	Checkmk		collectd
	PHP	RRDtool, MySQL, MariaDB		2025-03-23	1.2.30
	C, Python	RRDtool		2025-05-06	2.4
	C	RRDtool		2020-09-03	5.12
	Java, C++, .NET	MySQL, Oracle		2019-02	8.0.0
	PHP	MySQL		2018-11-14	1.20.1b
Via gmond check in	C, PHP	RRDtool		2016-06-14	3.7.2
	C	MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL		2025-06-18	url=https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md	title=Icinga2 Changelog	website=GitHub	date=2025-09-04 }}
	Windows, Linux & Mac OS	PostgreSQL		2017-07	6.1.5
	PHP	RRDtool, MySQL
	Perl	RRDtool		2021-02-22	2.0.67
	C	Flat file, SQL (via ndoutils), MySql (Via Nconf)	url=http://labs.nagios.com/2013/09/06/nrpe-2-15-released-now-with-ipv6-support/	title=NRPE IPv6 Support	access-date=2013-10-07	archive-date=2024-07-24	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724213540/http://labs.nagios.com/2013/09/06/nrpe-2-15-released-now-with-ipv6-support/	url-status=dead}}	2022-04-14	url=https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/4x/	title=Nagios Core Changelog	accessdate=2021-01-07}}
	Perl	PostgreSQL		2024-09-13	url=https://github.com/netdisco/netdisco/releases	title=Releases · netdisco/netdisco · GitHub	website=GitHub	accessdate=2024-09-20}}
	C, Java	PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB, MariaDB, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, SQLite		2024-04-15	4.5.6
		MS SQL
	Perl, ASP	MySQL		2017-06-03	1.0.16
	C, PHP	Flat file, SQL		Monthly	7.3.0
	Java	JRobin / RRDTool / Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL		2025-08-13	34.0.0
	Java, C++	Oracle		2013-04	10.0
		SQL
	Perl, PHP, C++, JavaScript	MySQL, Percona Server for MySQL		2024-06-11	7.0 NG 777
	Windows, C++, .NET	SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server		2025-06	9.5
	C Perl, Python, POSIX, MinGW	Flat file		2025-03-27	6.3.7
	Delphi	Flat file		2025-03-18	25.1.104
	Python	MySQL
	C, C++, PHP	MySQL		2022-11	6.4
	Python	Flat file, MySQL, Oracle, Graphite, Sqlite, MongoDB		2016-03-10	2.4.3
	.NET	SQL
	PHP	Sqlite		2018-03-21	7.5.00107
	C, Shell	Flat file, RRDTool, MySQL via plugin		2019-09-05	4.3.30
	C, PHP	MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Percona Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite
	Python, Java	ZODB, MariaDB, Apache HBase		2018-01-09	6.1.0
	Windows	MariaDB		2020-02-01	5.8

Legend

; 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.

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