# Cacti: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 4 judge labels across 2 categories by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cacti

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Infrastructure monitoring](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/infrastructure-monitoring/index.md) | 0% | 73 | 67% | 3 |
| [Network monitoring and management](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/network-monitoring-and-management/index.md) | 0% | 76 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "Tools and categories to avoid or approach with caution include... Cacti, Ganglia, and Classic Zenoss" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Infra monitoring)
- "it relies on RRDtool, which is considered obsolete technology by modern standards" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, Infra monitoring)
- "Old forks of Nagios, Cacti, or MRTG that rely on obsolete PHP/Python dependencies." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Network monitoring)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cacti, from 5 of the 10 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- checkmk.com: 3
- ir.com: 3
- kentik.com: 3
- cisa.gov: 2
- faddom.com: 2
- manageengine.com: 2
- paessler.com: 2
- pathsolutions.com: 2
- techtarget.com: 2
- arista.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://ir.com/guides/network-monitoring-tools: 3
- https://checkmk.com/blog/best-network-monitoring-tools: 2
- https://kentik.com/kentipedia/best-network-monitoring-tools-2026: 2
- https://pathsolutions.com/blog/best-network-monitoring-tools: 2
- https://arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Whitepapers/DMF_WP.pdf: 1
- https://atatus.com/guides/most-affordable-monitoring-tools: 1
- https://blog.apnic.net/2018/04/18/why-monitor-our-networks: 1
- https://capterra.com/network-monitoring-software/s/free: 1

## In its own words

What Cacti's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: a robust and extensible operational monitoring and fault management framework for users around the world (https://cacti.net/)
- For: users around the world (https://cacti.net/)

## What it publishes

Every page cacti.net exposes, read 2026-09-29: 8 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:


## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.