Compare the Top Free Hardware Monitoring Software as of July 2025

What is Free Hardware Monitoring Software?

Hardware monitoring software enables organizations to monitor hardware and devices. Hardware monitoring tools streamline the tracking and monitoring of hardware systems in order to detect and remediate any hardware performance issues. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Hardware Monitoring software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Paessler PRTG

    Paessler PRTG

    Paessler GmbH

    Paessler PRTG is an all-inclusive monitoring software solution developed by Paessler. Equipped with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface with a cutting-edge monitoring engine, PRTG optimizes connections and workloads as well as reduces operational costs by avoiding outages while saving time and controlling service level agreements (SLAs). The solution is packed with specialized monitoring features that include flexible alerting, cluster failover solution, distributed monitoring, in-depth reporting, maps and dashboards, and more. PRTG monitors your entire IT infrastructure. All important technologies are supported: • SNMP: ready-to-use and custom options • WMI and Windows Performance Counters • SSH: for Linux/Unix and macOS systems • Traffic analysis using flow protocols or packet sniffing • HTTP requests • REST APIs returning XML or JSON • Ping, SQL, and many more
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    Starting Price: $2149 for PRTG 500
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    ManageEngine OpManager
    ManageEngine OpManager is a robust hardware monitoring tool that provides real-time insights into the health and performance of critical hardware components, including servers, routers, switches, and storage devices. It tracks key metrics such as temperature, power usage, and hardware status, enabling IT teams to proactively identify and resolve potential issues before they impact system performance. With features like customizable alerts and detailed reporting, OpManager helps ensure hardware reliability and longevity. Its intuitive dashboards and visualization tools enhance visibility, making it easier to manage and optimize hardware resources effectively.
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    Starting Price: $95.00/one-time
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    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is a truly all-in-one monitoring solution, covering all traditional silos for specific monitoring: servers, networks, applications, logs, synthetic/transactional, remote control, inventory, etc. Pandora FMS gives you the agility to find and solve problems quickly, scaling them so they can be derived from any source, on-premise, multi cloud or both of them mixed. Now you have that capability across your entire IT stack and analytics to find any problem, even the ones that are hard to find. Thanks to more than 500 plugins available, you can control and manage any application and technology, from SAP, Oracle, Lotus, Citrix or Jboss to VMware, AWS, SQL Server, Redhat, Websphere, etc.
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    Starting Price: €90/month
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    ManageEngine Applications Manager
    ManageEngine Applications Manager is an enterprise-ready platform designed to monitor an entire application ecosystem of a business organization. Our platform helps IT and DevOps teams get visibility into all the dependent components within their application stack. With Applications Manager, it becomes easier to monitor the performance of mission-critical web applications, web servers, databases, cloud services, middleware, ERP systems, messaging components, and more. It has tons of features that fast-track the troubleshooting process and help reduce MTTR. This way, issues are fixed before application end-users are affected. Applications Manager has a fully functional dashboard that can be customized to get performance insights at a glance. By configuring alerts, it constantly keeps a lookout for performance issues within the application stack. Combining this with intelligent machine learning, Applications Manager helps turn performance data into actionable insights.
    Starting Price: $395.00/Year
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    Xitoring

    Xitoring

    Xitoring

    Stop using multiple apps for server uptime and performance monitoring. Get Xitoring , and start monitoring numerous servers and websites in minutes by running one CLI command. We’ll automatically configure everything! Xitoring is an innovative SaaS platform for server monitoring. Our agent, Xitogent , gathers data from your servers to ensure optimal performance and prevent downtime. By keeping your systems running smoothly, we help boost customer satisfaction. Our global probing nodes continuously monitor your servers. If any issues arise, we notify the right contact instantly. At Xitoring, we’re committed to improving our software and adding incredible features in the future. Introduced in 2021, Xitoring aims to revolutionize the server monitoring industry with automation for those tired of traditional methods.
    Starting Price: $4.99 OR Lifetime free
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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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    Checkmk

    Checkmk

    Checkmk

    Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, containers) and act quickly to resolve them More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with almost 2,000 checks 'out of the box' • Log and event-based monitoring • Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage • Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs • Flexible notifications and automated alert handling • Monitoring of business processes and complex systems • Hardware and software inventory • Graphical, rule-based configuration, and automated service discovery Top use cases: • Server Monitoring • Network Monitoring • Application Monitoring • Database Monitoring • Storage Monitoring • Cloud Monitoring • Container Monitoring
    Starting Price: $0/year
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    Splunk Enterprise
    Go from data to business outcomes faster than ever before with Splunk. Splunk Enterprise makes it simple to collect, analyze and act upon the untapped value of the big data generated by your technology infrastructure, security systems and business applications—giving you the insights to drive operational performance and business results. Collect and index log and machine data from any source. Combine your machine data with data in your relational databases, data warehouses and Hadoop and NoSQL data stores. Multi-site clustering and automatic load balancing scale to support hundreds of terabytes of data per day, optimize response times and provide continuous availability. The Splunk platform makes it easy to customize Splunk Enterprise to meet the needs of any project. Developers can build custom Splunk applications or integrate Splunk data into other applications. Apps from Splunk, our partners and our community enhance and extend the power of the Splunk platform.
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    Zabbix

    Zabbix

    Zabbix

    Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices. Zabbix is Open Source and comes at no cost. Detect problem states within the incoming metric flow automatically. No need to peer at incoming metrics continuously. The native web interface provides multiple ways of presenting a visual overview of your IT environment. Save yourself from thousands of repetitive notifications and focus on root causes of a problem with Zabbix Event correlation mechanism. Automate monitoring of large, dynamic environments.Build distributed monitoring solution while keeping centralized control. Integrate Zabbix with any part of your IT environment. Get access to all Zabbix functionality from external applications through Zabbix API.
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    NetApp Cloud Insights
    Control the performance and utilization of your cloud workloads. NetApp Cloud gives you complete visibility into your infrastructure and applications. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources and applications across your entire technology stack, whether it’s on-prem or in the cloud. Protect your most valuable business asset – data - from ransomware with early detection and automated responses to threats. Alert on potential misuse or theft of key intellectual property by malicious parties, both internal and external to your organization. Ensure corporate compliance by auditing access and usage patterns to your critical corporate data on-premises or in the cloud. From the public cloud to the datacenter, full-stack visibility of infrastructure and applications from hundreds of collectors available, all in one place. You don’t need to scramble to find new monitoring tools every time a new platform is introduced into your organization.
    Starting Price: $6 per month
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    Monitoring Collection

    Monitoring Collection

    Senior Consulting

    This tool collection contains applications to monitor hardware related components of your computer, like audio, disks, network and graphics cards, the system processor and memory or the built-in battery. Unlike to other existing applications in this context, all applications are characterized by the following features: * each functionality can be opened directly from the Windows notification area, the respective icon indicates the current status, * interfaces and shared technologies are implemented to use determined values in 3rd party applications, * all applications like the graphical display, the refresh rate and the display of notifications are highly configurable, * the installation size is very low, each component will use minimal hardware resources, * different languages are supported, language packs can be made easily with small effort.
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    OneIQ

    OneIQ

    OneIQ

    Harness the convergence of AI and human intelligence to make better IT decisions. OneIQ workspaces create transparency between IT professionals, technology advisors and suppliers to reach consensus on Hybrid IT decisions. This shared visibility into insights and data means that infrastructure recommendations can get approved and implemented faster. Leverage cross-platform visibility and collective expertise to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Empower your teams with AI-driven insights to optimize Hybrid IT infrastructure. Avoid costly availability and performance issues by adapting IT infrastructure ahead of time. Accelerate your Hybrid IT initiatives by building stronger relationships with your technology advisors and suppliers. Share only relevant IT asset information by using visibility controls for each IT environment connected to a workspace.
    Starting Price: $9 per workload per month
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    Network Asset Tracker
    Quick and simple network inventory with Network Asset Tracker Pro. Our software enables you to collect hardware and software inventory data from remote computers with a variety of audit methods like agentless and agent-based methods. Get complete information about operating systems, service packs, hotfixes, hardware, software, and running processes on remote PCs. Within a few seconds, you can get hardware and software reports for each computer. Save up to 90% on-time normally required for gathering this information. Inventory your network in just one click! Did you know that Network Asset Tracker Pro has an agent-free option, which means there are no network deployment issues - the program is based on WMI technology? Short description of our network inventory software. Examine key features in the table on our website.
    Starting Price: $79 one-time payment
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    Sensu

    Sensu

    Sensu

    Sensu is the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline empowers businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain deep visibility into their multi-cloud environments. Companies like Sony, Box.com, and Activision rely on Sensu to help deliver value to their customers faster and more reliably. Founded in 2017, Sensu offers a comprehensive monitoring solution for enterprises, providing complete visibility across every system, every protocol, every time — from Kubernetes to bare metal. Built by operators, for operators, open source is at the heart of the Sensu product and company, with an active, thriving community of contributors.
    Starting Price: $600.00/month
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    SpeedFan

    SpeedFan

    SpeedFan

    SpeedFan monitor temperatures from several sources. By properly configuring SpeedFan, you can let it change fan speeds based on system temperatures. When choosing parameters for the minimum and maximum fan speed, try to set them by hand and listen to the noise. When you hear no noise from the fan then you can set that value as the minimum fan speed for that fan. I suggest to use 100 as the maximum value, unless you hear a lot of noise from it, in which case you might reduce the maximum speed to 95 or 90. You can set, say, 60 as the maximum value and, sometimes, I myself set it that way. Consider that when the warning temperature is reached, the program sets the fan speed to 100, whatever maximum speed you selected. One last word should be said regarding the use fan x listbox. In my pc, more than one temperature changes when a fan runs faster. You can configure on which fan every temperature should rely.
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    Centreon

    Centreon

    Centreon

    Centreon is a global provider of business-aware IT monitoring for always-on operations and performance excellence. The company’s holistic, AIOps-ready platform is designed for today’s complex, distributed hybrid cloud infrastructures. Centreon monitors the complete IT Infrastructure from Cloud-to-Edge for a clear and comprehensive view. Centreon removes blind spots, monitoring all equipment, middleware and applications that are part of modern IT workflows, from on-premise legacy assets to private and public cloud environments, all the way to the edge of the network, where smart devices and customers combine to create business value. Centreon is constantly current, able to support the most dynamic environments. With auto-discovery capabilities it can keep track of Software-Defined Network (SDN) elements, AWS or Azure cloud assets, Wi-Fi access points or any other component of today’s agile IT infrastructure.
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