Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. I'm ...

The free and open-source network monitoring software Nagios Core has a long and strong reputation, providing the base for other monitoring suites – Icinga, Naemon and OP5 among them – and a history ...

The best network monitoring tools include Zabbix, Datadog, and Cacti. Compare features, pricing, and supported platforms among our top picks. If you combine enterprise network monitoring tools with ...

I've been doing some searches on this topic and read a few threads here as well.I've read about Nagios, OpenNMS, Spiceworld, Cacti, MRTG, (...), but I don't know which one is best for my environment: ...

Network monitors are an absolute must-have for any network administrator. But which tool, out of the thousands, should you consider for your tool kit? Jack Wallen offers up his five favorites. Image: ...

Open-source Zabbix network-monitoring software has the granularity enterprises need but requires a lot of manual configuration and has some limits on exportable ...

Networks can sometimes be like closets; they start out completely organized, but then over time as items are added and stuff gets moved around, pretty soon you end up with a bit of a mess, with items ...

Infrastructure monitoring is the proactive analysis of application infrastructure that enables you to identify or predict performance issues before they become grave and ensures that network resources ...

Do you mean to host or monitor? I agree it's a lot easier to run on *nix as the host, but I'm monitoring Windows Server machines with no agent required aside from the ...