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Monit vs Naemon: catalog facts
Monit	Naemon
Free Monit is free and open source; the separate M/Monit dashboard is a commercial product.	Free Free community project.
macOS, Linux, Command line	Linux, Self-hosted
Restarts failed services and acts on resource limits automatically Very small footprint	Drop-in successor for Nagios users Bug fixes and performance work on the Nagios 4 core
No Windows support Central management of many hosts needs the paid M/Monit	Configuration follows the older Nagios style Needs a server to run on
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026

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