Cacti is a network statistics graphing tool designed as a frontend to
RRDtool's data storage and graphing functionality. It is intended to be intuitive and easy to use, as well as robust and scalable. It is generally used to graph time-series data like
CPU load and
bandwidth use.The frontend is written in
PHP; it can handle multiple users, each with their own graph sets, so it is sometimes used by
web hosting providers (especially
dedicated server,
virtual private server, and
colocation providers) to display bandwidth statistics for their customers. It can be used to configure the data collection itself, allowing certain setups to be monitored without any manual configuration of RRDtool.
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