The IT industry is subdivided into two basic broad categories. One being the programmers, and the other people who manage networks. Networking is the most interesting job. Managing how things are connected to keep them connected is amazing to exercise on. It needs you to have a great logical thinking mindset, and perfect knowledge about the networking algorithms, because you can face a problem anytime, and anywhere. This makes your duty, even quick to resolve it ASAP. With the help of automation and Artificial Intelligence technologies, we have made everything happen automatically by itself. There are a lot of such tools, like an IDS, and a Network monitoring tool. An IDS, or an Intrusion detection system, basically helps you detect for any kind of third party interference in the networks, and a network monitoring tool helps you in fixing any network based issues or ups and downs that may occur anytime.

The job of a network administrator is made very easy with the help of the same. He easily detects any issue that comes up, and sometimes, the same problem is automatically fixed in by the tool itself. This makes it even more amazing. You can even use these Network Monitoring tools in your day to day life too, and help detect problems in your own personal home or office networks, and help them process themselves automatically and easily.

There are a lot of Network Monitoring tools available. But some have some bugs, or some take up a lot of memory, and etc. Here is a list of some of the best network monitoring tools, that you can implement and use in your Network monitoring applications. The list is as follows, with a discussion on the tools:

13 Best Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools

Ganglia

Ganglia

Monit

Monit

Fiddler

Fiddler

Network Miner

NetworkMiner

Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS

Zenoss Core

Zenoss Core

Nagios

Nagios

Argus

Argus

Observium

Observium

EasyNetMonitor

EasyNetMonitor

CollectdCollectd

 

Cacti

Cacti

Zenoss

Zenoss