Cacti/cacti

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1859 stars · 443 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Cacti is an open-source, LAMP-based network monitoring and graphing platform built on RRDtool that collects, stores, and visualizes time-series performance data from network devices, servers, and applications. It offers automated device discovery, SNMP polling, graph/data-source templating, RBAC, and an extensible plugin framework, scaling from small LANs to tens of thousands of devices.

Use cases

• monitor bandwidth usage on routers and switches via SNMP
• graph CPU, memory, and disk metrics from servers over time
• auto-discover network devices and create graphs automatically
• build templated dashboards of time-series performance graphs
• set up fault and availability monitoring for a network
• visualize historical traffic data with RRDtool round-robin databases

When to choose

• you need proven, self-hosted SNMP-based network graphing with RRDtool
• you want template-driven automation for monitoring thousands of devices
• you run a LAMP stack and prefer a PHP web application
• you need role-based access control and multi-user graph viewing
• you want a plugin ecosystem to extend monitoring capabilities

When to avoid

• you need modern metrics stacks like Prometheus/Grafana with alerting-first workflows
• you want agent-based application-level monitoring rather than SNMP polling
• you prefer not to maintain a PHP/MySQL/RRDtool stack
• you need real-time sub-minute streaming metrics ingestion
• you want a cloud-native or container-orchestrated monitoring solution out of the box

Facets

application · maturity stable

monitoring data-visualization charts http-server plugin-system workflow-automation monitoring networking data-visualization self-hosted web-development windows php self-hosted rrdtool snmp network-monitoring graphing lamp time-series fault-management devops linux web-server docker

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