The Cacti Group

The Cacti Group maintains Cacti, an open-source framework for network monitoring and fault management. Cacti uses RRDTool to store performance data and draw graphs, and it is designed to grow from a small local network to environments with tens of thousands of devices.

What The Cacti Group offers

• Data collection: a distributed, fault-tolerant system for gathering data, with several collection methods.
• Template automation: templates that set up devices, graphs and device trees automatically.
• Graphing: charts of collected data using the storage and graphing features of RRDTool.
• Plugins: an extension system for adding new functions.
• User management: role-based control of users, groups and permission domains.
• Interface options: a theming engine and support for multiple languages.

Who it works with

Network teams running anything from small local networks to large, complex estates. Support comes through community forums with more than 160,000 posts from about 20,000 registered users, and the project accepts sponsorship to fund development.

Key facts

• Based in: United States
• Licence: GNU General Public License
• Scale: up to tens of thousands of devices
• Community: forums with 160,000+ posts