OpenNMS vs SolarWinds Incident Response
OpenNMS
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| Figure | OpenNMS | SolarWinds Incident Response |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $500/mo | $1.25/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 6 | 3 |
| Spec score · Alert Management Software | 8.3 (#10) | 7.9 (#16) |
| Founded | 2000 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Lewisville, Texas, United States | Austin, Texas, United States |
| Integrations | The FAQ lists email, Slack, Mattermost, custom scripts or webhooks, Jira, Remedy, TSRM, Grafana, and a REST API among integrations. | The integrations page lists a public API, email, outgoing webhooks, and a Terraform provider. |
| Purpose | OpenNMS is an open-source network monitoring platform for fault, performance, traffic monitoring, and alarm generation across local and distributed networks. | The product brings alerts together and supports incident management from alert consolidation through resolution. |
| Security | The company says its security program aligns with ISO 27001/27002, CCPA, and GDPR frameworks, and major Meridian versions receive third-party penetration testing and remediation before release. | SolarWinds says it maintains compliance with industry-standard security and regulatory frameworks and directs customers to its Trust Center for controls and certifications. |
| 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. | The company site lists technical support, documentation, training, and a user community as customer resources. |
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
SolarWinds Incident Response
- Pro$15 a year
- Premium$24 a year
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
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.
SolarWinds Incident Response
SolarWinds Incident Response has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.