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Shinken vs The Dude

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

Shinken

Shinken

Network & Admin

Shinken is an open-source monitoring framework that is compatible with Nagios configuration and plugins. It is designed to scale to large environments with thousands of hosts and services. Shinken leverages distributed architecture to improve performance over Nagios.

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The Dude

The Dude

Network & Admin

The Dude is a free application that monitors network devices and alerts when issues are detected. It tracks IP addresses, MAC addresses, switch ports, SNMP info, and more to provide network visibility and help troubleshoot problems.

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