Cacti
Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool. It stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain graphs, data sources, and round robin archives in a database, Cacti also handles the data gathering. There is SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.
| Tags | Networking Monitoring |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Implementation | PHP SQL |
Recent releases
- 10 Jul 2010 08:28
Changes: Many important security and bugfixes were included in this release.
- 24 Jul 2009 06:28
Changes: A handful of issues that have cropped up over the past few months have been addressed in this release. Two notable fixes were made for problems with the SNMPv3 password field in Firefox and caching issues that occurred after making changes to a graph tree.
- 21 Feb 2009 11:01
Changes: This version fixes a handful of bugs.
- 27 Jan 2009 10:00
Changes: This release features 89 bugfixes and 46 new features. Highlights include graph tree pagination and searching, RRDtool 1.3 support, improved LDAP support, and improved data source balancing logic in the poller.
- 12 Feb 2008 02:29
Changes: Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed. In addition, multiple bugs related to the poller, graph generation, and the UI have been corrected. A handful of small features also made it into this release, including UI improvements and a new database repair utility.
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Recent commentsCacti Rocks
In less than an hour from downloading the cacti tarball, I had working, usable graphs. Very slick web-based control interface for adding devices, graphs, graph trees (groups of devices), and users. You can add users and only let them look at the devices/graphs you want them to see.
very, very good
Hi Ian,
you make a very, very good job.
Thx a lot for that.
Cacti, together with Nagios, might become a Tivoli-Killer, someday.
I would be proud of becoming a core developer.
I use cacti beta in a bank environment -
even knowing there a lots of bugs.
It's worth the risk.
My target is to monitor 60.000 PCs.
But i urgently want you to set up a CVS Server.
If you want me to, i will do that.
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not to tolerate intolerance.
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Wonderful, but complex.
There's a lot of promise here, but I think it's in need of some simplification.... I've been beating my head for two days trying to get it to track disk usage, but all I get are blank graphs.
A nice feature for future development would be a standardized "module" format, that when installed, would automatically load the data source definition into the database, and create the graph parameters.
Anyhow, great work so far... Cacti will obviously be worth keeping an eye on.
Wonderful
Simple to setup. Easy to use. Beautiful output.
Easier to install/run than Cricket.
Worked with cricket for a month, couldn't get it running. Nothing in the archives or the mail list helped. Tried cacti, had it running in 4 hours. It looks great.