There were three network monitoring systems represented at the event. Zenoss, OpenNMS, and GroundWork all had booths at SCALE.

LinkedIn has open sourced monitoring software to put analytics around the popular Apache Kafka messaging system for streaming data. Kafka was initially developed by LinkedIn and later open sourced.

Learn how to configure the open source network monitoring tool Cacti to poll your routers, gather network data and provide graphs based on what you configured.

A: Try Nagios, an open source network-monitoring application that runs on Linux and other Unix-based systems, and which has a large user base and active online community.

Can you recommend any open source network-monitoring programs? Try Nagios (www.nagios.org), an open source network-monitoring application that runs on Linux and other Unix-based systems, and which ...

“When you’re trying to put together an open source system for monitoring your network, you have a very rich field to choose from,” said Thomas Stocking, Founder of GroundWork Open Source.

From network and server monitoring to trending, graphing and even switch and router configuration backups, these utilities will see you through.

[Kasey] and [Guyzmo] have been working for the past couple of years on a side project that lets them monitor pollution using a network of sensors. They’ve just decided to make the project open ...