Compare the Top Free Network Troubleshooting Software as of December 2025

What is Free Network Troubleshooting Software?

Network troubleshooting software enables the optimization of network issue identification through analysis, testing and functional solution implementation. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Network Troubleshooting software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    ManageEngine OpManager
    ManageEngine OpManager is a comprehensive network troubleshooting tool designed to quickly identify and resolve network issues. It provides real-time monitoring and alerting for network devices, helping IT teams detect faults, bottlenecks, and performance anomalies. With features like root cause analysis, detailed performance reports, and customizable dashboards, OpManager enables efficient troubleshooting by providing deep insights into network health and performance. Its intuitive interface allows for easy navigation and analysis, ensuring that network problems are addressed promptly to minimize downtime and maintain optimal performance.
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    Starting Price: $95.00/one-time
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    ManageEngine OpUtils
    OpUtils is IP address and switch port management software that is geared towards helping engineers efficiently monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot IT resources. OpUtils complements existing management tools by providing trouble shooting and real-time monitoring capabilities. It helps network engineers manage their switches and IP address space with ease. With a comprehensive set of over 20 tools, this switch port management tool helps with network monitoring tasks like detecting a rogue device intrusion, keeping an eye on bandwidth usage, monitoring availability of critical devices, backing up Cisco configuration files, and more. Enable advanced IP scanning of IPv4 and IPv6 subnets in your network to identify the available and used IP addresses. Scan all the switches in your network, map switch ports, run port scans and view details such as physical location, user, and more. Identify rogue device intrusions and block access to these devices.
    Starting Price: $138.00
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    NMIS

    NMIS

    FirstWave

    FirstWave’s NMIS is a complete network management system that provides fault, performance, and configuration management, performance graphs, and threshold alerts. Business rules allow for highly granular notification policies with many types of notification methods. NMIS consolidates multiple tools into one system, ready for Network Engineers to use. Scalable, flexible, open, and simple to implement and maintain, NMIS is the Network Management System that underpins the operations of over one hundred thousand organizations worldwide – making it one of the most widely used open-source Network Management Systems in the world today. FirstWave enables partners, including some of the world’s largest telcos and managed service providers (MSPs), to protect their customers from cyber-attacks, while rapidly growing cybersecurity services revenues at scale. FirstWave provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for network discovery, management, and cybersecurity for its partners globally.
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    Sematext Cloud

    Sematext Cloud

    Sematext Group

    Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Obkio

    Obkio

    Obkio

    Network Performance Monitoring Made Easy. Obkio is a simple Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting SaaS solution that allows users to continuously monitor the health of their network and core business applications to improve the end-user experience. The innovative software application identifies the causes of intermittent network, VoIP, video, and applications slowdown in seconds and collect information to quickly troubleshoot problems before they affect your end-users. Deploy network monitoring Agents at strategic locations in a company's offices or network destinations such as data sites, remote sites, external client sites, or public or private clouds to continuously monitor performance using synthetic traffic exchanged every 500ms. Obkio's Agents give you a 360-degree overview of your network by measuring the network metrics like matter most (jitter, latency, packet loss, VoIP quality), and alerting you of any performance degradation.
    Starting Price: $399 per month
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    Splunk Enterprise
    Splunk Enterprise is a powerful platform that turns data into actionable insights across security, IT, and business operations. It enables organizations to search, analyze, and visualize data from virtually any source, providing a unified view across edge, cloud, and hybrid environments. With real-time monitoring, alerts, and dashboards, teams can detect issues quickly and act decisively. Splunk AI and machine learning features predict problems before they happen, improving resilience and decision-making. The platform scales to handle terabytes of data and integrates with thousands of apps, making it a flexible solution for enterprises of all sizes. Trusted by leading organizations worldwide, Splunk helps teams move from visibility to action.
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    PingPlotter

    PingPlotter

    Pingman Tools

    PingPlotter is a network monitoring and troubleshooting solution that helps millions of internet citizens find the source of network problems and prove the culprit. Get up-to-the-second feedback on key metrics like latency, jitter, and MOS. Chart detailed timelines of internet connection performance. Quickly find and diagnose the source of internet lag, server disconnects, and other downtime. Skip the tedious work with automated alerts and let PingPlotter keep watch for you. Share objective, easy-to-read graphs of performance metrics with internet service providers, IT teams, or others. Fix the right thing the first time with actionable data. Test a single computer with PingPlotter for Desktop, or use PingPlotter Cloud to monitor multiple devices from your web browser.
    Starting Price: $6.99 per month
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    CySight

    CySight

    IdeaData

    CySight's Dropless Collection method provides absolute data retention, enabling the most data orientated decision making and cost-effective workflow for any organization, significantly enhancing network performance, network security and cyber intelligence to the highest level. With a Unique approach, CySight delivers comparative baselining, superior granularity, scalable collection, root cause analysis and QoS Analysis. All Designed to run independently or work together as a powerful single unit. CySight empowers communication and application visibility for networking, security, billing and compliance with high-end integrated network traffic analytics, granular forensics, cybersecurity intelligence, cloud usage, internet-of-things analytics, peering and billing to medium and large enterprise customers and service providers. Our objective at CySight is to reveal your data’s potential and eliminate all blind spots.
    Starting Price: $299/month
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    Optigo Visual Networks

    Optigo Visual Networks

    Optigo Networks

    Optigo Visual Networks (OptigoVN) is our next-generation OT network troubleshooting and monitoring software solution. With over 28 different network diagnostics, OptigoVN’s robust BACnet monitoring gives you deep OT network visibility. It instantly reveals problems, allowing you to resolve issues in minutes rather than hours or days, and prevent them from happening again. OptigoVN's free purpose-built BACnet monitor tools make life easier for building managers, technicians, and Systems Integrators. OptigoVN speaks BACnet, the most widely used protocol for Building Automation Systems and OT networks. Upload a single PCAP file, or let OptigoVN monitor your buildings around the clock and alert you if a problem arises. Add additional users to collaborate and share resources remotely and in real time.
    Starting Price: Free
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    IBM NS1 Connect
    IBM NS1 Connect offers premium, authoritative DNS and advanced traffic steering to deliver the high-performance, reliable, secure network connectivity that businesses need to meet increasingly sophisticated customer expectations. NS1 Connect’s global anycast network provides the massive capacity and scale needed to keep users reliably connected across the world. An API-first architecture empowers teams to embrace automation and streamline DNS management. Enterprises with complex network infrastructures can take performance to the next level with sophisticated traffic steering capabilities and real-time reporting on DNS observability data.
    Starting Price: $250/month
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    Syvir Cloud

    Syvir Cloud

    SYVIR Technologies

    Syvir Cloud products are enterprise level network monitoring software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides data-driven insights through intuitive dashboards and reports diagnostic information to improve the availability and improve the uptime of your network endpoints. - Track your endpoints diagnostics - Identify and resolve endpoint issues - Get alerts when endpoints have problems
    Starting Price: $99.00/one-time
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    XPM

    XPM

    ProtocolSoft Tech., Inc.

    XPM is a commercial quality and enterprise level performance management/monitoring and traffic analysis solution. XPM is a high-performance enterprise product based on Linux, which supports continuous operation of 7*24*365. Therefore, it may not be suitable for individual users, but more suitable for enterprise users who need higher IT service quality. XPM monitoring objects include: 1. Applications using HTTP protocol; 2. Databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS-SQL server); 3. URL Transaction; 4. Network, server and client. Awards of XPM: Innovation Award of ITSS 2018, ITSS is a department of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China. Please note that: The downloadable version here is XPM standard version, which can analyze about 1 Gbps of traffic in real time, and only supports X86 server deployment. If you need vProbe-XPM to monitor virtual machine traffic, or XPM-H version over 1 Gbps, please contact us by email.
    Starting Price: $0/month/module
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    Wireshark

    Wireshark

    Wireshark

    Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the volunteer contributions of networking experts around the globe and is the continuation of a project started by Gerald Combs in 1998. Wireshark® is a network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It has a rich and powerful feature set and is world’s most popular tool of its kind. It runs on most computing platforms including Windows, macOS, Linux, and UNIX. Network professionals, security experts, developers, and educators around the world use it regularly. It is freely available as open source, and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.
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    Cisco Network Assistant
    Cisco Network Assistant simplifies wired and wireless network management for networks up to 80 devices with its intuitive GUI and a task-based menu. Cisco Network Assistant is free and is optimized to apply common services across Cisco switches, routers, wireless controllers, and access points. Through a direct link to Cisco Active Advisor you can view important information pertaining to the products on your network, such as Warranty and Contract Information, Advisories and End of Life notifications. Cisco Active Advisor will be automatically populated with the devices managed through Cisco Network Assistant. Network administrators get a centralized view of the network with Cisco Network Assistant. They also have the flexibility to employ its features across Cisco products for small to midsize businesses or branch offices. Network discovery and convenient display in a topology map. Configuration management of Cisco products fitting small and medium businesses.
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    EtherCAT® Tool

    EtherCAT® Tool

    acontis technologies GmbH

    The EC-Engineer is a software tool used for configuration and diagnosis of EtherCAT® networks. Using this single tool one can handle all required engineering and diagnosis tasks in a quick and comfortable way. The modern, clear and very intuitive user interface, which is also rarely using popup dialogs, is crucial for a smooth experience in configuring and diagnosis of customer's EtherCAT® systems. With the help of integrated EtherCAT master the connected slave devices can be scanned and operated. Get more details on this page: https://acontis.com/en/ecengineer.html Register for an free trail here: https://acontis.com/en/eceval.html
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    VPS+

    VPS+

    L7TR

    VPS+ is a powerful virtual layered network protocol IDE or integrated development environment that can be used for: 1) Fast prototyping and deployment of protocol stacks in data network solutions including IoT and VoIP 2) Quality Assurance as a tool to validate network and device quality 3) Emulation of impaired network conditions and devices in a controlled fashion 4) Generation of any type of traffic with full control VPS+ supports several state-of-the-art technologies including: 1) Protocol Emulation: L2, L3, L4 and Application layer protocols. 2) RTC and VoIP signaling via SIP and SIPs. 3) RTC and VoIP media via RTP and SRTP. 4) Emulation and support of media players, media recorders, camera, microphone, text-to-speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR). 5) Speech codecs 6) Video codecs 7) Tone generation and detection. 8) IoT sensor and actuator emulation. 9) IoT CoAP and HTTP support. 10) Impairment insertion at all layers; loss and late
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