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What is Centreon?

Centreon is a comprehensive IT monitoring solution designed to help organizations gain full visibility and control over their IT operations. By providing real-time insights into system performance, network health, and application availability, Centreon enables businesses to proactively manage their IT environments, ensuring uninterrupted operations and optimal resource utilization. Targeted primarily at IT departments and operations teams, Centreon serves a diverse range of industries, from small businesses to large enterprises. Its user-friendly interface and customizable dashboards make it accessible for both technical and non-technical users. This versatility allows organizations to tailor the monitoring experience to their specific needs, making it an invaluable tool for maintaining operational efficiency and enhancing service delivery. One of the key use cases for Centreon is its ability to prevent downtime through proactive issue detection. By continuously monitoring critical systems and applications, Centreon alerts IT teams to potential problems before they escalate into significant outages. This proactive approach minimizes disruptions and helps organizations maintain a reliable IT infrastructure, which is essential for meeting business demands and ensuring customer satisfaction. Centreon also emphasizes resource optimization, allowing businesses to maximize efficiency and reduce IT costs. By providing detailed insights into resource utilization, organizations can identify underperforming assets and make informed decisions about capacity planning and resource allocation. This capability enables businesses to streamline their IT operations, ultimately leading to cost savings and improved performance. In addition, Centreon enhances the user experience by delivering consistent, high-quality IT services. With its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, IT teams can ensure that applications and services are running smoothly, providing end-users with the reliable performance they expect. This focus on user experience fosters customer loyalty and supports overall business success by aligning IT services with organizational goals. Centreon distinguishes itself in the IT monitoring category by combining powerful monitoring features with a user-centric approach. Its ability to deliver actionable insights, prevent downtime, optimize resources, and enhance user experience makes it a vital tool for organizations looking to improve their IT operations and achieve business success.

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Centreon develops enterprise IT monitoring solutions based on industry standard open source.


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Year Founded
2005
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Paris, France
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Description

Centreon is a leading provider of IT monitoring solutions that help organizations optimize their IT infrastructure and services. With a focus on performance and availability, Centreon's software enables users to gain real-time insights into their IT environments, facilitating proactive management and quick issue resolution. The platform supports a wide range of technologies and offers features such as customizable dashboards, alerting, and reporting. Centreon is designed for businesses of all sizes, aiming to enhance operational efficiency and improve service delivery. For more information, visit their website at https://www.centreon.com/.


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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.0 out of 5
"Un bon outil pour de la surveillance et de l'alerting à moindre cout"
Facilité de configuration des plugins et mise en oeuvre assez rapide (pour la partie central + poller) Le nombre d'équipements que vous pouvez sur...
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5.0 out of 5
"Great software and service to have eyes everywhere"
Centreon is extreamly flexible and works with everything we throw at it. Service and support is great.
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Jaime G.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Centreon - an emerging monitoring tool"
Accurately monitor devices when it goes up or down. The alert system is remarkable not only via GUI but also send an email to the respective team a...
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When evaluating multiple monitoring solutions, it’s often necessary to compare self-hosted platforms, which are installed on premises, with SaaS solutions, which are cloud-based.
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When evaluating multiple monitoring solutions, it’s often necessary to compare self-hosted platforms, which are installed on premises, with SaaS solutions, which are cloud-based.
When it comes to IT monitoring, you have to choose from a wide diversity of solutions, which is great! In particular you’ll get to choose between two acquisition models, open source and commercial off-the-shelve (COTS).
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When it comes to IT monitoring, you have to choose from a wide diversity of solutions, which is great! In particular you’ll get to choose between two acquisition models, open source and commercial off-the-shelve (COTS).
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What do you like best about Centreon?

Facilité de configuration des plugins et mise en oeuvre assez rapide (pour la partie central + poller)

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Une bonne gestion de l'alerting

Un bon rapport qualité/prix

Facilité d'utilisation pour un néophyte Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

Pas de connexion native à l'AD

Pas de coffre fort pour stocker les mots de passe (ils sont en clair dans les scripts)

Un déploiement de tous les modules (Map, Ban, poller, central, ...) assez compliqué

Une procédure de montée de version pas claire

Un support peu réactif et assez faible en analyse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Centreon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Permet de surveiller les équipement informatiques au niveau système et applicatif

Déclenche des alertes pour les services de piquet pour régler les dysfonctionnements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lina Garcia of Centreon

Merci pour votre retour ! Nous sommes heureux que vous appréciiez la facilité de configuration, l’alerting et l’accessibilité de Centreon. Vos remarques sur le coffre-fort, le déploiement des modules, la montée de version et le support seront remontées aux équipes concernées pour améliorer l’expérience utilisateur.

Nous continuons à faire évoluer notre plateforme, n’hésitez pas à partager vos suggestions sur notre site communautaire : The Watch.

Merci encore !

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What do you like best about Centreon?

Centreon is extreamly flexible and works with everything we throw at it. Service and support is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

For now, we haven't had any issues with the product. Sometimes templates are not available but it's very rare and only for obscure products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Centreon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Monitoring differents platforms as MSP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lina Garcia of Centreon

Thank yoThank you for your feedback! We're glad to hear that Centreon's flexibility and compatibility meet your needs and that our service and support have been valuable to you.

It's great to know that the platform is helping you monitor different environments as an MSP. If you ever have suggestions or ideas for improvement, feel free to share them on our community platform: The Watch.

Thanks again for sharing your experience!

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What do you like best about Centreon?

Accurately monitor devices when it goes up or down. The alert system is remarkable not only via GUI but also send an email to the respective team and management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

The cost to purchase license for support. If they can only lower the cost to compete with the best monitoring toll in the market. I believe that most of the company will move in using Centreon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Centreon solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of the problems that it solves is the accurate and timeliness of the alerting. It minimizes the downtime and impact to the network and servers and the business performance increased. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

You can monitor lots of services from servers (windows and linux), network devices, storage and backup devices or any other device that has an IP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

Standard template is not that helpful, mostly just guide on the format of the script.

For custom application/infra monitoring it's hard to see plugins that are agentless Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Centreon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Custom monitoring. Because it's open based, we are allowed to tweak things around and integrate the plugins or the scripts to monitor application or any services that deviates from the standard monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RG
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Centreon?

Centreon is a very good monitoring tool. It covers all infrastructure-related issues and now also covers new cloud technologies like AIOps. It supports cloud augmented architecture and has excellent support services. The support team used to resolve issues within a defined SLA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

The license of the tool is costly and higher than its competitive tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

Centreon is a good option for those who are familiar with the concepts of Nagios. Centreon puts a more usable interface in front of hosts and services and adds usability features, like templates and dashboards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Centreon solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Centreon for 3 years and just switched to IMP. This tool is monitoring our worldwide infrastructure including our cloud environment. It gave us the opportunity to deploy new services with plugin packs. Since we integrate Centreon we had a better view of our infrastructure and a better response time. It's a good tool to be proactive and to know quickly the issues we have in our infrastructure. " Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

In centreon will can monitor our network and store client details. We can he possibility to monitor service with different angles: service on the machine/port/result of a request (example HTTP). and We can easily make changes on a single dashboard with minimum time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

Not yet.....all features are working properly. Need to improve GUI interface more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

If you are in a Networking Industry then go for it. It will fulfil all your needs surely. Highly recommended for large network monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Centreon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Improve customer relations/service, and live network device monitoring, create internal/operational efficiencies, centreon gives great scalability for network monitoring and make our network is reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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As Network engineer I am working on different NMS tools daily basis one of them is Centreon.

my company basically offers emerging nEw services like lease lined connection, wholesale bandwidth, cloud solutions, CDN solutions. we need to maintain or monitor all our connections which already gave to our all client which placed at two-state (Maharashtra, Goa) in India. For monitoring these all kinds of links we used CENTREON tools to monitor our network and find different types of incident occur in the real-time network and alert to us for future network outage so we can take necessary action in prior and give reliability to our client without any disturbance. Centreon is basically a proactive monitoring tool that gives us different types of features as we can easily manage our network with the help of the center. End to end proactive report they give to us. if we want to make any changes in our network We can schedule downtime with the help of center. Centreon does a great job like depth of monitoring, end to end coverage.

Pros:

* Great filtering capability in GUI interface

* Proactive end to end monitoring

* We can easily make changes on a single dashboard with minimum time

* Easily Configurable and simple to handle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

None.all features are working properly. Need to improve GUI interface more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

Supper recommeded for big network monitoing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Centreon solving and how is that benefiting you?

For monitoring our all kinds of links we used CENTREON tools to monitor our network and find different types of incident occur in the real-time network and alerting continuously to us for future network outage so we can take necessary action in prior and give reliability to our client without any disturbance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

*Centreon is one of the best monitoring tools which I have ever seen in my work experience. I am a network engineer and worked for one of the Internet service providers since 2016. As an engineer we have implemented,managed different types of a network like VPN, MPLS, lease lined, firewall, and other devices. If we want to provide good service to the client we have to monitor all types of links very proactively. In my organization have use Centreon monitoring tools for all kind of link monitoring.

*Basically Centreon gives an end to end and active monitoring in our whole network. Centreon works very decent and its generating different alarms if any changes occur in networks. If we get an alaram we can see what exactly going on in-network and log in a particular device to check what exactly going on in-network.

Centreon gives great scalability in networks also reliable network monitoring with problematic logs. As a configuration part of Centreon is quite simple.we can configure the Centreon in only one system like serves and take access to all of PCs in the network. We no need to configure Centreon on each and every system interface. You can easily reduce the load of your systems.

* It supports active monitoring so we don't require ant TRAP for monitoring. It gives alarms with end to end logs so its helpful to make a report on a daily basis.

Pros:

1)Proactive monitoring

2)Great scalability

3)Independent application for monitoring

4)End to end Report with actual logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

We haven't had any issues with Centreon.

*For enterprise solutions Centreon quite expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

Highly recommended for large network monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Centreon solving and how is that benefiting you?

*We have monitor all kind of link which is used in ISP operation. We have to close watch on this link because it really get impacted on our business if we are not monitoring.

*Centreon gives great scalability for network monitoring and make our network is reliable.

Organization Name:Joister Infoserve Pvt Ltd.Mumbai,India Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

Centreon contains database like IP address,location,name of clients which helps us to find our clients and network devices.In an Network Industry we need to monitor our network devices and our clients all the time,centreon plays an important role for doing monitoring.It Highligts the down devices or clients by Red colour.Centreon shows the accurate up time and down time of clients and devices. Centreon is very easy to use and easy to handle also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

Nothing to dislike about centreon but if it gets hanged it does not work properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

If you are in an Networking Industry then go for it.It will fulfill all your needs surely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Centreon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using centreon we are able to do monitoring of our clients and our network devices.If any of our client goes down,we use details from the data base,call the clients and do the further troubleshooting to resolve the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

I am been working in IT industry since 2 years. We are using Centreon 2.4.1 as a monitoring tool to monitor our last mile devices such as Routers,Switches,Mikrotik and our clients.By using this software we get live Up and down time status of our servers and devices in monitoring session.It is very helpful tool for network and IT industries.The performance of centreon is good and configuration is also very easy.While monitoring we get to know exact downtime and date of our devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

There is not to dislike about this tool but sometime it gets hang. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

Use this tool till the best it will definitely help you in all yours need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Centreon solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to do live monitoring of our lease line customers with multiple locations.are able to do live monitoring of our lease line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.