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What is Cacti?

Cacti is a full featured Performance Monitoring and Fault Management framework with over 30 customizable plugins to extend it's functionality into various areas within the overall operations ecosystem.

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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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"Best Free Traffic Graph Tool"
It's free and is one the best graphs you can think about. If your network needs traffic plotting and you depend on it, it is a great tool and is st...
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"Cacti: The top most used MRTG tool by network engineer"
Open source, very easy to install and use. You can easily install it to the Redhat, debian, freeBSD or any unix system. The best part is the databa...
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"Cacti Overview For telecommunication"
We can have a complete network picture along with Backhaul downstream site. We can access all the information on One page
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Waqas s.
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What do you like best about Cacti?

It's free and is one the best graphs you can think about. If your network needs traffic plotting and you depend on it, it is a great tool and is straightforward to set up too. Open Source, Customizable, Live Traffic, low to no maintenance, and If there is a MIB or SNMP OID for something, Cacti can graph it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cacti?

Not significant apart from network interface graphing, Batter Alerts would be great, like in Zabbix or PRTG. While Cacti has a fantastic amount of customization options, it requires a large number of man-hours to get it working the way you want Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cacti solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cacti`s Network Traffic Monitoring helps me keep an eye on my B.W. usages, and it helps me troubleshoot many of my issues without much effort, and this is for free. We can adjust network links and decide what connections need to be upgraded based on the information available in cacti. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Md Mohibul H.
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What do you like best about Cacti?

Open source, very easy to install and use. You can easily install it to the Redhat, debian, freeBSD or any unix system. The best part is the database management is so optimized that you don't need to tune very often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cacti?

There are lot of plug-ins' which are not updated to run in the newest version of Cacti. Network weather map is one of the best plug-in which really needed for better visual. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cacti:

You can use it if you are using snmp to monitor your network devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cacti solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cacti is a MRTG tool that is used by most of the Internet service providers to monitor their network device's health and real time traffic. The network uptime is greatly improved which positively effects business performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cacti?

We can have a complete network picture along with Backhaul downstream site. We can access all the information on One page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cacti?

Search Criteria Of Cacti Is not goo and Efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It is highly recommended fro all the Telecom users who have to monitor POP and Backhaul link traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cacti solving and how is that benefiting you?

BH Traffic, Site Traffic, and Utilization of POP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cacti?

Cacti is a basic tool to present the modern graphic technologies and implementation of some other networking across the system. Hence, a powerful solution to all graphic customization and the latest templates overview with good skills. I can customize the site by allowing our selected people to make changes while others can only see the site without any interruption so, a fantastic tool to analyze the system detail with a protected environment. Nothing is difficult in its working, once installed can do its actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cacti?

There are different versions of this single application so you need to download it’s all applications to get the maximum benefits that might be good for big-scale business but the other one may find this application a bit pricy. Its installation requires a speedy internet so, make sure a good networking across your system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cacti solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cacti is a diverse application in its domain to make things quite challenging by resolving certain networking issues within the system. This application can choose the people to comment and make changes on our site and that maybe team members so the clients can watch the site with a fully protected version. There are different programs of this application and we are highly obliged to get the benefits from all features in a very short span of time. So, let’s have an awesome application to protect and secure the system with a wide range of networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cacti?

Cacti is an open source RRD tool. It has built in templates. It is free to download. It provides application, performance and user management. All feeds can be modified and updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cacti?

Using cacti can be overwhelming and confusing for new users. Customization can also be a tedious task at times. It does not let you automate tasks either. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cacti solving and how is that benefiting you?

Along with providing efficient management tools, it allows charting and monitoring data with complete customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adam K.
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What do you like best about Cacti?

Cacti is fast, flexible and best of all it's open source. If our equipment doesn't support SNMP but does have some other API, we are able to write collection scripts for Cacti so that we can graph pretty much anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cacti?

So far I haven't found anything I dislike about Cacti. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cacti:

Since it is free, you can try it without losing anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cacti solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our engineers, technicians and support staff needed to see historical data for our in-house and customer servicing equipment. Cacti provides that to us and allows us to set granular permissions so we can even give a customer access to read-only view specific graphs if we choose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeff S.
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What do you like best about Cacti?

Cacti has been around since 2004, and if you've read any of those "Top 5 network monitoring software" lists floating around it most likely included Cacti. Since Cacti has been around for well over a decade now, there is a vast (if not always thriving) community support for most issues that you run into. The software is also still actively being worked on, which is rare in a piece of free software that has been around for so long.

So what's so great about Cacti? It is infinitely customizable. If there is a MIB or SNMP OID for something Cacti can graph it. It's free.

Customization:

Are you tired of the standard white background and green traffic graphs? Well with Cacti you can make those graphs black with yellow outlines, or red, or fuscia, or sky blue, or any internet color you want. You have the options to make the graphs wider, shorter, taller, skinnier, include 20 data points or a single data point. The customization options are almost limitless.

SNMP Graphing:

If you can pull data off of a device via SNMP, then cacti can graph it. You are also not limited to graphs, pulling integers and displaying them as text is there. I personally have even used Cacti to graph voltage off of batteries and temperature readings off of a remote sensor. Cacti is well known for network interface statistics but it doesn't stop there.

Free:

There is typically no better cost than free. Being free though does come with some drawbacks, which are made fully aware when you look at the downsides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cacti?

So you want the customization beyond network interface graphing? Get ready to spend hours searching the forums hoping that someone else has figured out how to get the information that you are trying to get. That is exactly what I had to do when looking at how to graph information from that battery and temperature sensor. While Cacti has an amazing amount of customization options the flip side is that it requires a large amount of man hours to get it working the way you want. I don't know how many hours I spent customizing the system to just get information from Ubiquiti devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cacti solving and how is that benefiting you?

When I started using Cacti, I needed a system that would monitor network traffic. It did that fantastically well, it only started to become a pain point when I started to move outside of the network graphing.

There are other systems out there that allow you to monitor networking equipment (LibrNMS, PRTG) but none of them give you the granularity of control in graphing anything and everything that Cacti does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cacti?

A wonderful tool to perform a monitoring of your platform, both infrastructure and process. A light overload for the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cacti?

The appear is not as beautiful as other like grafana. But it is enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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A easy tool to do your platform monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cacti solving and how is that benefiting you?

Platform monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cacti?

Cacti is an excellent tool for monitoring the network graphs, it can poll the information from the network in a very fast and effective way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cacti?

As fo till date, there is nothing specific I can share about disliking this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cacti solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are doing real time monitoring of all the devices on a big screen allowing us to have a firm grip on our network availabiloity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cacti?

Netwrok monitoring and open source platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cacti?

More features to help us get more network information on the infrastrucutre Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cacti solving and how is that benefiting you?

Netwrok motniroging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.