Top 10 IT Monitoring software

August 04, 2025 | Editor: Michael Stromann


IT infrastructure monitoring software allows IT administrators to view entire IT infrastructure in real-time.
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We make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone—no matter where it comes from. You see servers and devices, apps and logs, traffic and clouds. We see data—everywhere. Splunk offers the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. It enables the curious to look closely at what others ignore—machine data—and find what others never see: insights that can help make your company more productive, profitable, competitive and secure.
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Monitor & manage your network with unified visibility into fault, performance, availability, traffic, & configurations. Get instant visibility across all system resources that can impact application performance and fix them fast. Find, analyze & resolve your toughest performance issues on SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, and DB2. Automate 24x7 security monitoring and response to stop threats in their tracks and maintain continuous compliance.
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An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.
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Cloud monitoring reinvented. Easy, Automatic, AI-Powered. Automatically monitor dynamic hybrid-cloud environments.
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New Relic gets you immediate code-level visibility to build faster software, create better products, and delight your customers. New Relic gets you immediate code-level visibility to build faster software, create better products, and delight your customers.
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Nagios Is The Industry Standard In IT Infrastructure Monitoring. Achieve instant awareness of IT infrastructure problems, so downtime doesn't adversely affect your business. Nagios offers complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services.
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Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
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Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Operations and Development teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.
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ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software for all your business needs. We have complete and easy solutions for even your most difficult IT management problems, from keeping your business safe, to ensuring high availability, to making your users happy. We’re bringing IT together so you don’t have to.
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Graylog is a leading centralized log management solution for capturing, storing, and enabling real-time analysis of terabytes of machine data.
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PRTG Network Monitor is an agentless network monitoring software. It can monitor and classify system conditions like bandwidth usage or uptime and collect statistics from miscellaneous hosts as switches, routers, servers and other devices and applications.
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CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on-premises servers.
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ELK is the acronym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a server‑side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to a "stash" like Elasticsearch. Kibana lets users visualize data with charts and graphs in Elasticsearch.
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Cisco's AppDynamics is an application performance management and IT operations analytics software. Get real-time insights and transform your app performance with our Application Performance Management to drive business outcomes.
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Spiceworks bundles network monitoring, helpdesk, UPS power management, PC inventory tools, an online community, and much more. All in one spot. All for free.
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Solve Operational Problems Faster. Make all of your logs accessible to everyone in one place. No more logging into individual machines. Use searches, filters and graphs to spot trends and narrow down potential root causes. Set up in minutes. No software or agents to install. Works with all standard logging facilities. Owned by SolarWinds.
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logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). Speaking of searching, logstash comes with a web interface for searching and drilling into all of your logs.
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Sumo Logic cloud log management solution processes ALL your production application logs and server log data, analyzes them in real-time and delivers actionable results at a fraction of the cost of on-premise solution.
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Icinga is an open-source computer system and network monitoring application.
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Cacti is an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool designed as a front-end application for the open-source, industry-standard data logging tool RRDtool. Cacti allows a user to poll services at predetermined intervals and graph the resulting data.
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OpenNMS is a free and open-source enterprise grade network monitoring and network management platform.
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Kaseya helps MSPs and IT Departments better manage their business with our IT management software suite, IT Complete.
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ScienceLogic’s solution is an all-in-one IT monitoring software product, comprehensive and complete in a single, unified platform. Unlike some companies, we do not sell you a la carte, piecemeal selections. To help you understand the many powerful components of our solution, we have broken out descriptions of features and capabilities that other companies call (and sell) as individual products:
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syslog-ng is the foundation of log collection and management. Optimize your SIEM, meet compliance requirements, and deliver data from a variety of sources.
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Server Log Monitoring Tool. We built the log monitoring tool we've always wished for. Scalyr is server log monitoring and analysis built for engineers. Turn chaotic logs and system metrics into actionable data.
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Graphite is an enterprise-ready monitoring tool that runs equally well on cheap hardware or Cloud infrastructure. Teams use Graphite to track the performance of their websites, applications, business services, and networked servers. It marked the start of a new generation of monitoring tools, making it easier than ever to store, retrieve, share, and visualize time-series data.
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The Riverbed Network and Application Performance Platform enables organizations to visualize, optimize, accelerate and remediate the performance of any network for any application.
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Network performance monitoring that goes beyond your network. AppNeta provides real-time, actionable insight from remote offices, over internal networks, and across the internet, so you can quickly get to the bottom of performance issues regardless of where they occur.
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One platform, unlimited metrics. Monitoring Zen. We get your data flowing to us from anywhere, whether it's through our API, a turn-key solution, or one of our many open source collection agents. Turn your raw data into intuitive metrics with our powerful composite metric defi-nitions. Owned by SolarWinds.
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OpsRamp is a service that helps IT teams discover, monitor, manage and automate their hybrid environments
Editor: Michael Stromann
Michael is an expert in IT Service Management, IT Security and software development. With his extensive experience as a software developer and active involvement in multiple ERP implementation projects, Michael brings a wealth of practical knowledge to his writings. Having previously worked at SAP, he has honed his expertise and gained a deep understanding of software development and implementation processes. Currently, as a freelance developer, Michael continues to contribute to the IT community by sharing his insights through guest articles published on several IT portals. You can contact Michael by email stromann@liventerprise.com