Centreon

Holistic visibility for complex IT workflows.

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Overview

Centreon is an IT infrastructure monitoring platform that provides holistic visibility, from cloud to edge. It is built on an open-source core, offering flexibility and extensibility. Centreon helps NOC teams eliminate monitoring silos and gain a unified view of their entire IT estate, including networks, servers, applications, and IoT devices.

✨ Key Features

  • Hybrid IT Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Open-source Core with Enterprise Extensions
  • Service Mapping and Root Cause Analysis
  • Customizable Dashboards and Reporting
  • Extensible via Plugin Packs
  • AIOps-ready

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Open-source foundation with commercial backing
  • Focus on business-aware monitoring and service mapping
  • Extensive library of 'Plugin Packs' for fast deployment
  • Strong capabilities for monitoring complex, hybrid environments

Unique Value: Provides a uniquely holistic and business-centric view of complex IT estates, bridging the gap between infrastructure health and business service performance on a flexible, open-source-based platform.

🎯 Use Cases (4)

Unified monitoring of on-premise and cloud resources Business service-aware monitoring Creating centralized NOC dashboards Monitoring legacy and modern IT systems

✅ Best For

  • Providing end-to-end visibility for complex, hybrid IT environments
  • Using service maps to quickly identify the business impact of an infrastructure alert

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Teams looking for a pure SaaS, agent-based solution
  • Organizations that require deep application performance monitoring (APM)

🏆 Alternatives

Zabbix Nagios SolarWinds Platform ManageEngine OpManager

Compared to Zabbix, Centreon places a stronger emphasis on service mapping and business impact analysis out of the box. It offers a more commercially supported and enterprise-focused package than a pure Nagios implementation.

💻 Platforms

Web API

✅ Offline Mode Available

🔌 Integrations

ServiceNow GLPI Slack PagerDuty Ansible Grafana

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Phone Support
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (Business tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ GDPR ✓ SSO

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

✓ 14-day free trial

Free tier: Open Source version is free

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