Cacti vs Metricool

Cacti

Description: Cacti is an open-source network monitoring and graphing tool that provides easy monitoring of network devices and servers. It polls devices for utilization data, stores the data, and generates graphs and statistics to help analyze network traffic and utilization.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

Metricool

Description: Metricool is a lightweight, free and open-source browser-based business intelligence tool focusing on ease of use. It allows users to easily create dashboards, data visualizations and reports using its intuitive drag-and-drop interface without needing to know coding or SQL.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

Cacti Features

• Graphing and monitoring tool for network devices
• Supports SNMP polling for data collection
• Customizable graphs and dashboards
• Threshold-based alerting
• Supports RRDTool for data storage
• Web-based interface
• Plugin architecture for extendibility

Metricool Features

• Drag-and-drop interface for building dashboards
• Variety of chart types including bar, line, pie, scatter, etc
• Connect to data sources like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Filtering, grouping and aggregation of data
• Scheduled reports and alerts
• Access control and sharing

Cacti

• Open Source

Metricool

• Open Source