Centreon vs Nagios Core
Centreon
centreon.com
Nagios Core
nagios.orgSide by side
| Figure | Centreon | Nagios Core |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €0.19/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 15 | 1 |
| Spec score · Server Monitoring | 9.4 (#1) | 7.7 (#26) |
| Spec score · Network Monitoring - Midmarket Software | 9.4 (#1) | 7.7 (#17) |
| Integrations | Stream Connectors can export real-time metrics to systems such as Grafana, Kibana and Power BI. | The features page names Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Slack, and ServiceNow among its integration options. |
| Purpose | Centreon provides an AIOps-ready, business-aware IT monitoring platform for complex infrastructures from cloud to edge. | Nagios Core monitors IT infrastructure including servers, network devices, websites, applications, services, and custom metrics. |
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
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.
Nagios Core
Nagios Core has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.