OpenNMS vs Saneops

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.

Saneops is an AIOps platform for DevOps and SRE teams that correlates and deduplicates alerts and drafts root-cause analyses for incidents. It groups alerts by time window and label similarity, with thresholds adjustable for each tenant. Matching payloads are deduplicated using content hashes, and CEL-based rules can drop known-noise alerts. For incident analysis, teams can provide their own Claude, OpenAI, or Ollama keys. Listed integrations include Grafana, Datadog, PagerDuty, Prometheus, Slack, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, Zenduty, those LLM services, and generic webhooks. Saneops offers hosted cloud use and a self-hosted Docker image that can run air-gapped. The maker says self-hosted alert data stays within the customer's network and secrets are encrypted at rest; listed controls include bcrypt passwords, tenant isolation, and rate limits. The free tier includes 1,000 alerts per month without a credit card. A separate closed beta gives ten design partners the full product free for 60 days in exchange for feedback and a weekly 30-minute sync. Post-beta pricing has not been finalized.