What is Artica?
Artica is an open-source network and application monitoring software that provides complete visibility into networks, servers, and applications. It is designed to monitor the availability, performance, and bandwidth utilization of IT infrastructure components.
Key features of Artica include:
- Automatic discovery of devices on networks
- Monitoring of network availability and bandwidth usage
- Monitoring of server and application performance metrics
- Alerting when thresholds are crossed for critical metrics
- Visual network topology mapping
- Customizable dashboards and reporting
- Support for monitoring cloud infrastructure
- Agentless and agent-based monitoring options
Artica runs on Linux and provides a web-based interface for configuring monitoring parameters, viewing dashboards and reports, and managing alerts. It can monitor traditional on-premise infrastructure as well as cloud platforms. The open-source model allows for custom integrations and additions to the platform.
Typical users of Artica include IT administrators, network engineers, and application owners looking for an enterprise-grade monitoring system without the high costs of proprietary solutions. It provides good capabilities for general infrastructure monitoring at a fraction of the cost of products from vendors like SolarWinds or Datadog.
Webmin, Plesk, Samba, Zentyal, DirectAdmin, Univention Corporate Server, SME Server, ispmanager, Untangle, ServerPilot.io, Windows Home Server, IDECO ICS, ClearOS, Sentora, ApisCP are some alternatives to Artica.