Centreon vs PVE Hardware Monitor
Centreon
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| Figure | Centreon | PVE Hardware Monitor |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €0.19/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 15 | 0 |
| Spec score · Hardware Monitoring Software | 9.4 (#1) | 7.2 (#53) |
| Spec score · Hardware monitoring tools | 9.1 (#2) | 7.1 (#57) |
| API | Centreon Cloud APIs use time-limited user-linked authentication tokens sent in an X-AUTH-TOKEN header. | The project documents a GET /api/status endpoint that returns sensor data as JSON and a POST /api/mode endpoint for ASUS laptop fan profiles. |
| Deployment | Centreon supports SaaS delivery and self-hosted deployment. | The documented installation runs on a Proxmox host and serves the dashboard at port 9099. |
| Integrations | Stream Connectors can export real-time metrics to systems such as Grafana, Kibana and Power BI. | It reads data from Linux hwmon, ASUS embedded controller registers, IPMI via ipmitool, sysfs battery data, and procfs system metrics. |
| Purpose | Centreon provides an AIOps-ready, business-aware IT monitoring platform for complex infrastructures from cloud to edge. | A real-time hardware monitoring dashboard for Proxmox VE hosts. |
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.
PVE Hardware Monitor
PVE Hardware Monitor has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.