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Shinken vs vnStat

A side-by-side look at Shinken and vnStat. 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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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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