Keep vs OpenNMS
Keep
keephq.devOpenNMS
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| Figure | Keep | OpenNMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $199/mo | $500/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 6 |
| Spec score · Alert Management Software | 8.0 (#13) | 8.3 (#10) |
| Company | The company says it is remote-first and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | The OpenNMS Group says it was founded in 2004 and provides services from headquarters near Research Triangle, North Carolina; its site contact address is in Lewisville, Texas. |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv, Israel | Lewisville, Texas, United States |
| Integrations | Keep lists 110+ providers and describes bidirectional integrations across monitoring, incident response, ticketing, source control, change management, and CMDB systems. | The FAQ lists email, Slack, Mattermost, custom scripts or webhooks, Jira, Remedy, TSRM, Grafana, and a REST API among integrations. |
| Support | Startup includes community-based support, Growth includes dedicated Slack support, and Enterprise includes 24/7 support. | Meridian subscriptions include support options and severity-based SLAs; the listed standard coverage is 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, with 24/7 emergency support as an add-on. |
Plans
OpenNMS
- HorizonFree
- Basic$6,000 a year
- Standard$12,000 a year
- Essential$49,000 a year
- Premier$66,000 a year
- Premier+Priced on request
In their own words
Keep
Keep is an open-source alert management and AIOps platform for bringing alerts together, reducing noise, and automating response workflows. Its alert workspace supports querying, slicing, analysis, and rule-based grouping. The YAML-based workflow engine has a UI and can query MySQL, enrich alerts, update Jira tickets, and run Python scripts. Keep lists 110+ providers and bidirectional integrations across monitoring, incident response, ticketing, source control, change management, and CMDB systems. It can be self-hosted or used as managed cloud; self-hosting options include local setup or Kubernetes with Helm or Docker Compose. The Enterprise plan includes alert correlation based on past incidents and a knowledge base. Growth costs $199 a month and includes 200 deduplicated alerts monthly, unlimited ingested alerts, 100 workflows, 20 integrations, 10 users, and 14 days of data retention. Startup is listed for personal or non-commercial projects, with five workflows, one integration, and one user. Keep is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
OpenNMS
OpenNMS is an open-source platform for monitoring faults, performance, traffic, and alarms across local and distributed networks. Horizon is the free community distribution with the newest features; Meridian is the stable subscription version. Data collection supports SNMP, JSON, WinRM, XML, SQL, JMX, SFTP, FTP, JDBC, HTTP, HTTPS, VMware, WS-Management, and Prometheus. Traffic monitoring handles NetFlow v.5/9, IPFIX, and sFlow, with stated capacity above 300,000 flows per second. Minions extend monitoring to remote devices and services, including locations behind firewalls or NAT through ActiveMQ or Apache Kafka. Integrations include email, Slack, Mattermost, scripts or webhooks, Jira, Remedy, TSRM, Grafana, and a REST API. Grafana views can show alarms, outages, KPIs, NetFlow, and data from multiple instances. The software supports API, Linux, self-hosted, and web deployments. Horizon is free; Meridian plans range from $6,000 a year to $66,000 a year, with larger deployments priced on request.