CactiWhat is Cacti?
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box.
Cacti is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Unlimited number of graph items can be defined for each graph optionally utilizing CDEFs or data sources from within cacti.Automatic grouping of GPRINT graph items to AREA, STACK, and LINE[1-3] to allow for quick re-sequencing of graph items.Auto-Padding support to make sure graph legend text lines up.Graph data can be manipulated using the CDEF math functions built into RRDTool. These CDEF functions can be defined in cacti and can be used globally on each graph.Data sources can be created that utilize RRDTool's "create" and "update" functions. Each data source can be used to gather local or remote data and placed on a graph.
Cacti Pros & Cons
Pros of Cacti
- ✓Free
- ✓Rrdtool based
- ✓Fast poller
- ✓Graphs from language independent scripts
- ✓Graphs from snmp
Cons of Cacti
No cons listed yet.
Cacti Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Cacti?
Kibana
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Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
