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Nagios XI vs Centreon: catalog facts
Nagios XICentreon
Paid

Perpetual license priced per monitored node, with a 30-day free trial.

Freemium

Free community edition with paid enterprise tiers for advanced features and support.

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Monitors servers, network devices and applications from one self-hosted install
  • Web config wizard and dashboards simplify setup compared to raw Nagios Core
  • Business activity views connect infrastructure health to business impact
  • Self-hosted deployment keeps monitoring data under your own control
  • Perpetual per-node licensing can get expensive as infrastructure grows
  • Proprietary layer on top of Nagios Core, so it is not itself open source
  • Full feature set is split across free and paid enterprise editions
  • Enterprise-oriented tooling can be heavier to set up than lightweight monitors
Self-hosted, Downloadable app Self-hosted, Downloadable app
Closed source Open source
License not stated License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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