Open Source Network Monitoring Software

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices and other IT resources. It supports distributed and WEB monitoring, auto-discovery, and more. An enterprise-class distributed monitoring solution for networks & apps

Visual Syslog Server for Windows is a free open source program to receive and view syslog messages. Useful when setting up routers and systems based on Unix/Linux. Visual Syslog Server for Windows has a live messages view: switches to a new received message. Helpful color highlighting. Useful message filtering. Customizable notification and actions. Sources hosted on the GitHub: https://github.com/MaxBelkov/visualsyslog

NSClient++ is a windows service that allows performance metrics to be gathered by Nagios (and possibly other monitoring tools). It is an attempt to create a NSClient and NRPE compatible but yet extendable performance service for windows.

Osquery is an operating system instrumentation framework for Windows, OS X (macOS), Linux, and FreeBSD. The tools make low-level operating system analytics and monitoring both performant and intuitive. Osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. This allows you to write SQL queries to explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables represent abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open network connections, browser plugins, hardware events or file hashes.Osquery queries your devices like a database. Osquery uses basic SQL commands to leverage a relational data-model to describe a device. Frequently, attackers will leave a malicious process running but delete the original binary on disk. This query returns any process whose original binary has been deleted, which could be an indicator of a suspicious process.

BASE is the Basic Analysis and Security Engine. It is based on the code from the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) project. This application provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from a SNORT IDS system.

Netdata is a well-crafted real time performance monitor to detect anomalies in your system infrastructure. Visualize many types of data including disk activity, SQL queries, website visitors and more. This tool is useful to monitor linux servers.

A simple yet powerful Syslog protocol Server & Analyzer. Can be tuned to only log events under a threshold, or to directly mail and admin when another threshold value is reached. The events can be viewed by hosts, by severity, or by facility. It can't be used as a service from Windows Server 2008 and newer due to their different security policy.

dvbsnoop - DVB analyzer / MPEG analyzer program to monitor, analyze, debug, dump or view dvb/mpeg/dsm-cc/mhp stream information (TS, PES, SECTION) (e.g. digital television) send via satellite, cable or terrestrial.

Cyberoam iView; the Intelligent Logging & Reporting solution provides organizations network visibility across multiple devices to achieve higher levels of security, data confidentiality while meeting the requirements of regulatory compliance. To know more about Cyberoam and it’s security solutions visit us at www.cyberoam.com.

nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic using two graphs and provides additional info like total amount of transfered data and min/max network usage.

pcapsipdump is libpcap-based SIP sniffer with per-call sorting capabilities. It writes SIP/RTP sessions to disk in a same format, as "tcpdump -w", but one file per SIP session (even if there is thousands of concurrent SIP sessions). Getting started: http://pcapsipdump.sf.net/

tcpick is a textmode sniffer; it tracks tcp streams, shows the status, reassembles and saves the data captured in files or displays them in the terminal in different modes (ascii, hex..). There is a color-mode. Useful to get files passively.

Hyperic is application monitoring and performance management for virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructures. Auto-discover resources of 75+ technologies, including vSphere, and collect availability, performance, utilization, and throughput metrics.

HealthMonitor is a free powerful and featureful system monitoring tool for Windows. It works as a Windows Service and check system status (event viewer, disk free space, services status, performance....) and notify the administration by E-Mail, SMS ...

A bandwidth meter, for monitoring internet connection speeds and usage.

Flexible web-based firewall log analyzer, supporting netfilter and ipfilter, ipfw, ipchains, cisco routers and Windows XP system logs, and mysql or postgresql database logs using the iptables ULOG or NFLOG target of netfilter others mapped to the ulogd format with a view. Fully supports IPv6 for database logs, and netfilter and ipfilter system file logs. Also supports Maxmind's GeoIP version 2 location databases. For Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OSX,etc.

Lilith is a logging and access event viewer for Logback, log4j & java.util.logging. It has features comparable to Chainsaw for log4j. This means that it can receive logging events from remote applications using Logback as their logging backend

Show system and ISDN information on external liquid crystal displays

A graphical interface for watching IIS log files. Makes copies of the current logfile at given intervals which gives the impression of realtime monitoring of the server traffic.

netleak is a collection of small perlscripts that detects connectivity between network segments. It is mostly useful to detect "leaks" in large organizations that have private network segments physically separated from the Internet.

The fetchlog utility displays the last new messages of a logfile (syslog). fetchlog is similar like tail but offers some extra functionality like pattern matching with regular expressions, output formatting for email, SMS, pager or SNMP tools, etc.

Output spool reader for Snort! This program decouples output overhead from the Snort network intrusion detection system and allows Snort to run at full speed. It takes input and output plugins and can therefore be used to convert almost any spooled fil

IP accounting tools package based on Berkeley Packet Filer mechanism. Continue from BPFT by V.Vorobyev, TRAFD by V.Belekhov & S.Svirid. Use the PCAP library to implement connection to bpf kernel pseudo-device.

This is a set of perl and php scripts that are used to collect, process, store and display netflow data.

glFlow is a robust, fast, portable, pcap-centric (D)DoS detection tool.