Open Source in Netmonk

The term open source is no longer foreign to developers or engineers. Open source refers to a program whose source code can be freely changed, modified or copied as much as possible by users or developers. Not only that, users can also use this open source program for any purpose. Even so, its use must still follow the rules because open source is a certification mark from OSI (Open Source Initiative). An example of an open source program is Ubuntu Linux. In addition, there is also closed source. Unlike open source, you cannot freely use closed source because you will not be able to get the source code. Examples of this closed source program are Mozilla Fire Fox, Chrome and the most popular close source is Microsoft Windows software.

Although open source can be used freely, it does not mean that you can get it for free like free software that you can download for free too. Here is an explanation of the differences between the two, open source software or applications are freely available so that they can be used by anyone for any purpose, but developers must allow redistribution of applications and their source code after that. While free software is software that you can download for free without regulations like open source.

Just like NetMonk, the network monitoring application and network monitoring services from Ketitik also use open source. What are they? Some of them, NetMonk uses 2 open sources, namely the SNMP exporter Promotheus and also the blackbox exporter Promotheus. Promotheus is an open source monitoring system that collects metrics from your service and stores them in a time-series database. Its use is not limited to monitoring applications or machines only, but this promotheus can be used for insight into any system. Including to monitor SNMP.

SNMP exporter is an exporter that can take data from SNMP which is then used by the promotheus monitoring system. While the blackbox exporter promotheus, through the TCP, DNS, ICMP, HTTP, and https protocols can be used to investigate endpoints, returning detailed metrics about the request. For example, the duration to receive a response and whether it is successful or not.

These two open sources are only a few that are used and make netmonk the best network monitoring tool that you can choose. To learn more about NetMonk, please visit our website to request a demo or click “try now” below. If you are interested in NetMonk and would like to ask about PoC, please contact our marketing team here.

References :

https://www.howtogeek.com/129967/htg-explains-what-is-open-source-software-and-why-you-should-care/

https://www.technopedia.com/definition/3294/open-source

https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-alertmanager-and-blackbox-exporter-to-monitor-your-web-server-on-ubuntu-16-04