Centreon vs Hardware Sentry KM
Centreon
centreon.com
Hardware Sentry KM
sentrysoftware.comSide by side
| Figure | Centreon | Hardware Sentry KM |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €0.19/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 15 | 1 |
| Spec score · Hardware Monitoring Software | 9.4 (#1) | 7.7 (#40) |
| Spec score · Hardware monitoring tools | 9.1 (#2) | 7.4 (#52) |
| Founded | 2005 | 2004 |
| Purpose | Centreon provides an AIOps-ready, business-aware IT monitoring platform for complex infrastructures from cloud to edge. | Hardware Sentry KM consolidates hardware health metrics from servers, storage systems, network devices, and UPS into BMC Helix Operations Management. |
| Supported operating systems | Supported server systems include RHEL, Oracle Linux and AlmaLinux 8 or 9, plus Debian 12; only 64-bit systems are supported. | The supported platforms documentation lists hardware connectors for Linux and Microsoft Windows systems. |
Plans
Centreon
- IT 100 FreemiumFree
- 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
- IT Edition (SaaS)€3.40 a year
- Pro Edition (SaaS)€4.50 a year
- Business Edition (Self-Hosted)€4.53 a year
Hardware Sentry KM
- Sentry Bundle for BMC Helix Operations ManagementPriced on request
In their own words
Centreon
Centreon is an IT monitoring platform for infrastructure spanning cloud environments and edge systems. It monitors servers, networks, cloud environments, and applications, with more than 700 connectors for areas including infrastructure, security, databases, middleware, and OT systems. Deployment is available as SaaS or self-hosted software. Integrations include ServiceNow, JIRA, GLPi, EasyVista, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Telegram, PagerDuty, and OpsGenie; stream connectors can send metrics and events to Elastic, Kafka, and Splunk. Access controls include fine-grained permissions, SAMLv2 identity-provider integration, and Active Directory and LDAP synchronization. Centreon uses TLS-encrypted communications and supports secure collection through its monitoring agent or poller. The agent monitors Linux and Windows hosts and streams metrics over encrypted gRPC. The core platform is distributed under the Apache license, with GPLv2 applying to some files. The free plan covers up to 100 hosts; paid plans start at €2.27 per host, and Centreon Cloud has a 7-day trial for up to 125 hosts. Centreon Experience Monitoring offers a separate 30-day trial.
Hardware Sentry KM
Hardware Sentry KM has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.