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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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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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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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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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Centreon Demo - Centreon Dashboard - Network Monitoring
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Centreon Demo - Centreon Dashboards - IT Infrastructure onboard cruise ship
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Centreon Demo - Centreon Dashboards - Monitoring cold storages
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Centreon Demo - Centreon Dashboards - Operational Technologies
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Centreon Demo - Centreon Resource Status - Alert Management
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Centreon Demo - Centreon Resource Status - Root Cause Analysis
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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).
90 seconds to understand why monitoring beyond IT is so important with this real-world example!
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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Centreon?

In Network Industry Monitoring of the network devices is more important. Centreon plays an important role in monitoring the networks devices and as well as clients. Centreon application can be used as database as it contains IP addresses of clients and network devices,location and also the name. Centreon also provides up time and down time of network devices and clients accurately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

Nothing to dislike but it does not work properly when it get hanged. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

The best monitoring application.If working in a network flied then you should have centreon. It is very easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use centreon as one of our powerful monitoring software for monitoring our clients and network devices like routers and switches.If a clients has any network issue,we used the database of centreon and do the further troubleshooting to resolve the problem quickly.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

This tool is widely used in every IT and Network industries to monitor their networks.In every ISP company they used this tool to monitor their network devices like switches,routers.This tool contains database like customer name & ip details. centreon helps to get real up & down time.when any device goes down they showing in red colour and after getting device up showing in green colour. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

sometimes centreon get delays to show up or down indication of devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

very useful monitoring tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

By using centreon monitoring becomes easy.we are able to check up and down time of our devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PK
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What do you like best about Centreon?

*As an internet service provider we are having our own large infrastructure network all over Maharashtra and Goa state and we are offering different kind of services like enterprise lease-lined ,Broadband conection to all clients.

*For this wide network we installed different kind of device like routers,Switches,acces point etc.for maintain reliability in our network we use different monitoring tools for give stable internet to our client .

*For monitoring purpose we used CENTREON tool for all our link monitoring its giving best monitoring which is ever seen.this tool provide real time performance and availability of different maps also end to end monitoring.

*Without using this tool its very complicated to maintained reliability in network this tool is complete package of tool for big network monitoring.

*basically our company used this tools since last 6 years and give best output by centreon.

when any indecent occur this tool helps to diagnose the error in network early and resolve it before distract to client connectivity.

Overall centreon is the best monitoring tool as compared to other also economically having less costly and best result.

Technical pros:

*End to end monitoring

*Dedicated dashboard widgets

*Maintain Automatic report and distribution scheduler.

*Centreon also has a comprehensive guide and documentation that are simple and easy to follow.

Cons:

*After refreshing this tools it will take time for data loading. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

when any indecent occur this tool helps to diagnose the error in network early and resolve it before distract to client connectivity.

Overall centreon is the best monitoring tool as compared to other also economically having less costly and best result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

you should use this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

*After refreshing this tools it will take time for data loading Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Centreon is the system and network monitoring software adapted to the needs of your ISD. It combines open source flexibility with the essential features of excellent supervision like monitoring your servers, active elements and applications. also centreon contains the details of devices like ip addresses and connectivity details and database related that device. it is like live network monitoring tool useful to check the live status of network devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

Sometimes it lack at the time when we refresh the page it is very disappointing for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

i am highly recommend this software to every it person or organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

our company in internet service provider in mumbai and pune city. we have network in both cities, to monitor this network we use centreon application, it monitor our network devices like switches and routers and customer end devices. also when any switch and router goes down we are able to trace that with the help of centreon and also it shows us the UP time of devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

We are doing real time monitoring of our devices using centreon.In computer centreon is easy to install and understand the working.It helps us to do live monitoring of our servers,routers and switches.We are easily able to find our devices by putting information of devices. Centreon also shows the real up and down time of devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

If we restart our router or switch manually the centreon take to much time to reflect the actual status of devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

It good for monitoring of servers and routers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps us to manage our ISP network.We are doing live monitoring.If any device goes down then we check the database of device using the centreon and do the troubleshoot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

We are working on network industry. We have placed our router and switches in different cities. It is very useful for monitor our devices and customers linternet link. It contain database and ip details which will help to find detail connectivity of link. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

Sometime it will slow at the time of refresh. There is no other dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

This application is easy to handle and understand. The performance of this application is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It help to get a real up time and down time of our devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

For the proactive monitoring of network devices like routers switches and servers centreon is one of the best tool.We are able to check the live up time from centreon portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

If in our computer having less RAM and memory space then it works very slow.Because it requires some more space in computer to proper working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

It best tool for live monitoring as well as proactive monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are proactively monitoring the our switches and routers from centreon. We are able to monitor all our devices from one computer using it.It helps us to monitoring and troubleshooting of network outages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

Working in an Networking Field,we have deployed a large network in different cities.The Centreon hepls us to monitor this large networks.Our devices like switches,routers and other communicating devices and as well as our cleints are being monitored using centreon application.Centreon contains database of clients such as name of clients,IP address,location,contact number,email id.It also provide the accurate up time and down time of the devices and clients.Centreon is very easy to use and handle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

Sometimes it works too slow or else there is nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

If looking for a good monitoring tool then go for it.Use it till your best and it will fulfill your needs surely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The red colour highlighting makes simple to know that the device or client is down.So we contact our operator or cleints via contact no. in database and to the further required troubleshooting to resolve the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Centreon?

Makes easier to Check the status of the device, Which shows parameters like Uptime check out time and so many. makes easier to know the device is critical or not, it gives warning. Can also get a ping status of device in graphical from so we can analyse and update the configuration of particular devices. No need of separate window to check the parameters, everything is in single window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Centreon?

Status of device is not 100% correct every time, there is latency between the live and Centreon status of Network Devices.at that time need to check manually or sometime need to refresh the page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Centreon:

Monitoring makes easier to check the consistency of Devices from anywhere no need to check it manually. If your network is large enterprise network and devices are not easy to handle at a time go for Centreon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As a Noc engineer we have to monitor our devices, need to check the availability of devices, need to submit up/down time of devices for future determination so can get MTTR of device. Either by NAS ip or device name checking specific zone connectivity. taking graphical data from ping status to analyse the device consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.