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Cacti vs vnStat

A side-by-side look at Cacti and vnStat. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Cacti

Cacti

Network & Admin

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.

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vnStat

vnStat

Network & Admin

vnStat is an open-source network traffic monitor for Linux that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel to keep track of the monthly, daily and hourly bandwidth usage.

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