Alternatives to Centreon

French enterprise network and IT monitoring platform with business activity dashboards. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Centreon.

  • Checkmk

    Hybrid open-source and commercial monitoring with agent-based and SNMP auto-discovery.

    FreemiumOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Checkmk offers agent-based and SNMP auto-discovery to cut manual host setup, but like Centreon it gates advanced features and scaling behind paid editions.

  • Zabbix

    Enterprise-scale open-source monitoring for networks and applications.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxWebSelf-hosted

    Zabbix is fully free under AGPL-3.0 and scales to tens of thousands of devices with proxies, though it lacks Centreon's business activity dashboards.

  • Icinga 2

    Monitor infrastructure availability with a configurable checking and alerting system.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Icinga 2 is free GPL-3.0 monitoring with distributed setups, service checks and notifications, but a complete deployment needs configuration and optional web-interface components.

  • Nagios XI

    Commercial self-hosted edition of Nagios with a web-based setup wizard.

    PaidProprietarySelf-hosted

    Nagios XI is a paid, proprietary self-hosted Nagios edition with a web setup wizard, licensed perpetually per node, which can get expensive as infrastructure grows.

  • Nagios Core

    Monitor hosts and services with a configurable alerting engine.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Nagios Core is free GPL-2.0 plugin-based host and service monitoring, but configuration and many checks need manual setup or additional plugins.

  • PRTG Network Monitor

    Sensor-based network monitoring, free for the first 100 sensors.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindowsWebSelf-hosted

    PRTG provides autodiscovery, maps and alerting with 100 free sensors, but it runs only on a Windows server, is closed source and is priced per sensor.

  • OpenNMS

    Carrier-grade open-source network monitoring platform with event correlation.

    FreemiumOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    OpenNMS is a carrier-grade open-source network platform with event correlation and Grafana integration, suited to large networks, with paid tiers for enterprise support.

  • SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

    Industry-standard self-hosted network performance monitor with intelligent maps.

    PaidProprietarySelf-hosted

    SolarWinds NPM is paid, closed source network performance monitoring with NetPath and intelligent maps, a significant cost for smaller organizations.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Centreon as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Naemon

    Community-run network and host monitoring suite built on the Nagios 4 core.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hosted

    Centreon is a freemium self-hosted platform with business activity dashboards, splitting its full feature set between free and paid enterprise editions.

  • Pandora FMS

    A monitoring platform for servers, networks, applications and logs, with an open-source edition.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Centreon is self-hosted IT and network monitoring with business activity dashboards, split between free and paid enterprise editions.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.