Paessler PRTG
Paessler PRTG is network and server monitoring software for small firms and IT departments, installed on Windows, with a hosted edition and mobile apps.
Windows · Web · Android · iPhone / iPad Free with in-app purchases
Networking apps
Software to design, emulate, run and monitor computer networks: emulators, routing suites, inventory and traffic analysis.
Paessler PRTG
SolarWinds NCM
SolarWinds NCM is commercial software that backs up, tracks and audits network device configurations for enterprise teams, running on Windows Server.
Windows · Web Free trial
Catchpoint
Catchpoint monitors the availability and speed of websites and online services from over 3,000 agents, for large web and IT teams, on the Web.
Web · Linux · Windows · macOS Paid
Kentik
Kentik analyses NetFlow, sFlow and IPFIX data from routers and clouds at scale, for carriers and large network teams, on the Web with Linux agents.
Web · Linux Free trial
Cisco ThousandEyes
Cisco ThousandEyes tracks Internet and SaaS performance from agents spread worldwide, for network and IT teams, used on the Web with Linux agents.
Web · Linux · Windows · macOS Free trial
Arista EOS
Arista EOS is the proprietary network operating system of Arista switches, which lab users can run on Linux through cEOS-lab and vEOS-lab.
Linux Paid
Cumulus Linux
Cumulus Linux is NVIDIA’s Debian-based network operating system for Spectrum switches, sold with the hardware to data centre network teams and operators.
Linux Paid
Masscan is a free, extremely fast port scanner for auditors and security teams, built from source on Linux, macOS or Windows, for authorised networks only.
Linux · macOS · Windows Open source
Ostinato
Ostinato is a paid network traffic generator with a graphical interface and a Python API, for testing switches and links on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Windows · macOS · Linux Paid
Cilium
Cilium is an eBPF-based networking, security and observability layer for Kubernetes clusters on Linux, aimed at platform engineers and SRE teams.
Linux Open source
Scapy
Scapy is a free Python library for crafting, sending, sniffing and decoding network packets, built for security engineers on Linux, macOS and Windows.
Linux · macOS · Windows Open source
Open vSwitch
Open vSwitch is a free virtual switch for Linux hypervisors, used under OpenStack, Proxmox or KVM by private cloud and virtualisation administrators.
Linux Open source