Alternatives to Cisco pyATS

PingPlotter

PingPlotter suits home users troubleshooting a network, small offices monitoring their network, and remote teams using Cloud.

Mininet suits developers, researchers and learners working with Linux-based network prototypes or SDN experiments.

EVE-NG

EVE-NG suits network, security, and DevOps professionals building emulated labs or training environments.

Netpicker

Netpicker is aimed at network and NetDevOps engineers who need configuration checks, backups, security validation or remediation.

It suits network engineers, learners, and others working on education, certification practice, proofs of concept, demonstrations, or interoperability testing.

It suits network engineers and developers measuring TCP, UDP, or SCTP performance, especially perfSONAR users and people who need machine-readable output or a reusable library.

Ostinato suits network teams that need to generate or replay traffic for validation and analysis.

Batfish suits network engineers who want configuration-based policy, security, reliability and change analysis.

LibreSpeed suits people or organizations seeking a free speed test they can self-host, with optional telemetry and result storage.

OpenSpeedTest suits people checking a connection in a browser, as well as teams that want an embedded test or a self-hosted deployment.

TRex suits network teams benchmarking devices, testing switches, or generating stateful and stateless traffic.

Invariant

Invariant suits network and security operators assessing reachability, security policies, and planned network changes.

It suits people familiar with networking protocols who need active throughput or latency measurements on Linux, macOS, or Windows.

Tessabyte suits professionals measuring network quality who want client-server testing across wired or wireless connections.

perfSONAR

perfSONAR suits science facilities, campuses, laboratories, network providers, exchange points, virtual organizations, researchers, and software or service developers.