Naemon
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Naemon, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Naemon's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Naemon | Free | Community monitoring suite; no paid plans or usage limits stated |
The facts
Each one read from Naemon's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Core
- The Naemon core is based on Nagios 4 and includes bug fixes, new features, and performance enhancements.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The download page provides binary packages and instructions for installing Naemon on Linux distributions, as well as source code for building it.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Distributed monitoring
- The user guide includes distributed monitoring, redundancy and failover monitoring, clusters, and host and service dependencies.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integration methods
- The documentation covers integrating with other software, SNMP traps, and TCP wrappers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The documented addons include NRPE, NSCA, NDOUtils, PNP, Merlin, Mod-Gearman, and OMD.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Interface
- The suite includes Thruk as its GUI in place of the Nagios CGI interface, and bundles Livestatus for communication with the core.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Modular suite
- The project describes its suite as modular, with separate components for functions such as the user interface and check scheduler.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- The documentation describes active and passive checks for monitoring hosts and services.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Naemon is a monitoring suite intended to give users a view of the state of their network and applications.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Release
- The download page lists version 1.5.2 as the latest stable release, released 18 May 2026.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security guidance
- The user guide includes a Security Considerations section, but the reviewed pages do not state a security certification or compliance standard.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Community support channels listed by the project include Slack, mailing lists, IRC, and GitHub code and bug tracking.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- Binary packages are listed for Enterprise Linux, SLES, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, with installation guides also listed for Windows monitoring.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Project ownership
- Naemon describes itself as community-created and says it is working toward an independent, non-commercial legal entity to manage the project.checked 11 Oct 2026
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