Centreon vs Servers Alive
Centreon
centreon.comServers Alive
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| Figure | Centreon | Servers Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €0.19/mo | €16.58/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 15 | 2 |
| Spec score · Server Monitoring | 9.4 (#1) | 7.6 (#29) |
| Headquarters | Paris, France | Belgium |
| Purpose | Centreon provides an AIOps-ready, business-aware IT monitoring platform for complex infrastructures from cloud to edge. | Servers Alive is an end-to-end network monitoring tool that runs on Windows and monitors across operating systems. |
| Reporting | Availability and performance reports can be generated and distributed automatically. | Users can create HTML output templates, and the product uses RRD to graph check times and results. |
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.
Servers Alive
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