Cicada: Open-source Network Devices Monitoring System

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Cicada (originally known as Chupacabra) is a lightweight Node.js application that features a web browser interface for the purpose of discovering and monitoring network devices. This application supports various protocols including ICMP (ping), SNMP v1/2c/3, WMI, Modbus TCP, IPMI, http/s (plain-text, json, xml), and ftp.

Additionally, Cicada allows for the polling of agents from popular monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Check-mk, and Munin, enabling the checking of TCP ports.

Cicada is a cross-platform, open-source application that can be easily extended and is completely free of charge.

Features

Comprehensive support for various protocols, allowing for multi-protocol device polling
Dynamic and interactive network diagrams that provide real-time insights
Efficient organization of devices and metrics through tagging
Ability to set threshold values for metrics and receive alerts when they are exceeded
Powerful calculated metric functionality
Templates that enable the effortless creation of device copies
Automatic discovery of metrics based on predefined rules
Bulk import feature for adding multiple devices at once
Compact and space-saving storage of historical data (with a storage requirement of only 2-4 bytes per numeric value)
Support for historization of non-numeric values
Flexible and customizable mechanism for alert messages
Comprehensive alert management system
Seamless integration with Grafana for advanced data visualization and analysis
Capabilities for monitoring databases

Platforms

Web (self-hosted)
Linux
Windows
macOS

License

GPL-2.0 License

Resources

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