Network / NMS
LibreNMS
open source / community
The community favorite for pure network gear — excellent SNMP autodiscovery, clean UI, multi-tenant + bandwidth-billing features that ISPs and MSPs love.
- Category
- Network / NMS
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Established
- Popularity
- ≈4.7k GitHub stars; homelab + ISP favorite
The catch
A PHP/MySQL stack you must feed and maintain (poller scaling, distributed pollers for big networks), and it's network-device-centric — not a full app/log platform.
Monitors
NetworkServersMetrics
Protocols
SNMPSyslogICMP / ping
Capabilities
AlertingDashboardsAutodiscoveryAPI
Built for
HomelabMSPSMBMid-market
The honest take
If your world is switches, routers and bandwidth graphs, this is the sweet spot — point it at SNMP and it just discovers everything. The fork that ate Observium’s lunch, and deservedly so.