Centreon
8.3#2 in network monitoringFrom €2.27 a yearFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
VisitCentreon vs Observium
What both publish
| Fact | Centreon | Observium |
|---|---|---|
| Alerting | Alert management supports thresholds, event correlation and acknowledgement workflows. | Professional Edition provides threshold alerting for different entity types, and creates alert entries during discovery. |
| API | Centreon Cloud APIs use time-limited user-linked authentication tokens sent in an X-AUTH-TOKEN header. | The feature comparison lists a RESTful API, and the documentation describes it as available for custom integrations and automation. |
| Founded | 2005 | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France | Ramsey, Isle of Man |
| Integrations | Stream Connectors can export real-time metrics to systems such as Grafana, Kibana and Power BI. | The site lists integrations with collectd, munin, smokeping, and RANCID, with supplied collectors including Apache, BIND, DRBD, Memcached, MySQL, and NFS. |
| Purpose | Centreon provides an AIOps-ready, business-aware IT monitoring platform for complex infrastructures from cloud to edge. | Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that discovers devices and services, collects performance metrics, and generates alerts. |
Centreon plans
- IT Edition€27.24 a year
- Business Edition€54.36 a year
- MSP Edition€54.36 a year
- IT-100Free
- IT 100 FreemiumFree
- IT Edition (Self-Hosted)€2.27 a year
Observium plans
- CommunityFree
- Enterprise—
- Professional—
Pick Centreon if…
Centreon suits IT teams monitoring mixed infrastructure across servers, networks, cloud and applications. Its SaaS and self-hosted options give teams a choice of deployment model.
Pick Observium if…
Community may suit home users, evaluators, and small non-critical deployments. Professional is positioned for SMEs and ISPs, while Enterprise is aimed at large enterprises.