# Cacti/cacti

Cacti ™

Repository: https://github.com/Cacti/cacti
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cacti
Homepage: http://www.cacti.net
Language: PHP
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: cacti, graph, cacti-community, rrdtool, php, network-discovery, data-gathering, rrd-files, graph-templating, cacti-framework
Last push: 2026-08-26T15:27:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 65, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4244, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 79, "gap_med": 118, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1859, forks 443 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:45.194204+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: monitoring, data-visualization, charts, http-server, plugin-system, workflow-automation
- domain: monitoring, networking, data-visualization, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: windows, php, self-hosted
- tags: rrdtool, snmp, network-monitoring, graphing, lamp, time-series, fault-management, devops, linux, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- Cacti/cacti (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:45.194204+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:15:57.487860+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Cacti/cacti (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:45.194204+00:00, sha b4b02533e0f6)
  - homepage: http://www.cacti.net (fetched 2026-08-29T10:55:03.636895+00:00, sha beb9dca0abae)
  - site_page: http://www.cacti.net/info/features (fetched 2026-08-29T10:55:03.639487+00:00, sha 6193a8e408d6)
  - site_page: http://docs.cacti.net/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:55:03.646772+00:00, sha aad485bef7d4)
  - site_page: http://docs.cacti.net/Frequently-Asked-Questions.md (fetched 2026-08-29T10:55:03.648690+00:00, sha 643c0b8d9dbc)
  - site_page: http://www.cacti.net/info/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T10:55:03.641537+00:00, sha 0cd1e3de7c9a)
  - site_page: http://www.cacti.net/info/cacti (fetched 2026-08-29T10:55:03.650582+00:00, sha 55cfeff20d38)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.