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Centreon vs Nagios: What are the differences?

Introduction: Centreon is an open-source monitoring solution that provides comprehensive insights into the performance and availability of IT infrastructures. On the other hand, Nagios is a widely-used open-source monitoring tool designed to monitor network services, hosts, and devices.

  1. Scalability: Centreon offers better scalability than Nagios. With Centreon, you can easily monitor a large number of hosts and services without affecting the overall performance. Nagios, on the other hand, can face performance issues when monitoring a large number of hosts and services.

  2. User Interface: Centreon provides a more user-friendly and intuitive web-based interface compared to Nagios. The Centreon interface allows for easy navigation and configuration of the monitoring system. Nagios, while powerful, has a more complex and less intuitive interface.

  3. Automation and Integration: Centreon offers more automation and integration capabilities than Nagios. Centreon provides an API and a wide range of plugins that allow for seamless integration with other systems and automation tools. Nagios also supports integration but may require more manual configuration and customization.

  4. Reporting and Visualization: Centreon provides extensive reporting and visualization features, allowing users to generate customized reports and visualize the monitoring data in various graphical formats. Nagios, on the other hand, offers limited reporting and visualization capabilities, requiring additional plugins or customization to achieve similar functionality.

  5. Enterprise Features: Centreon offers additional enterprise features such as multiple dashboards, advanced reporting, distributed architecture, and high-availability options. These features are not available or limited in Nagios' core version, requiring additional plugins or customization.

  6. Ease of Configuration and Management: Centreon provides a more user-friendly and centralized configuration and management interface compared to Nagios. Centreon allows for easier setup, monitoring, and management of hosts, services, and notifications. Nagios, while flexible, can be more complex and time-consuming to configure and manage.

In summary, Centreon offers better scalability, a more user-friendly interface, advanced automation and integration capabilities, extensive reporting and visualization features, additional enterprise features, and easier configuration and management compared to Nagios.

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My team is divided on using Centreon or Zabbix for enterprise monitoring and alert automation. Can someone let us know which one is better? There is one more tool called Datadog that we are using for cloud assets. Of course, Datadog presents us with huge bills. So we want to have a comparative study. Suggestions and advice are welcome. Thanks!

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Geoffrey Timmerman
Systems Engineer at Simac · | 6 upvotes · 293.6K views
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I work at Volvo Car Corporation as a consultant Project Manager. We have deployed Zabbix in all of our factories for factory monitoring because after thorough investigation we saw that Zabbix supports the wide variety of Operating Systems, hardware peripherals and devices a Car Manufacturer has.

No other tool had the same amount of support onboard for our production environment and we didn't want to end up using a different tool again for several areas. That is the major strong point about Zabbix and it's free of course. Another strong point is the documentation which is widely available; Zabbix Youtube channel with tutorial video's, Zabbix share which holds free templates, the Zabbix online documentation and the Zabbix forum also helped us out quite a bit. Deployment is quite easy since it uses templates, so almost all configuration can be done on server side.

To conclude, we are really pleased with the tool so far, it helped us detect several causes of issues that were a pain to solve in the past.

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Centreon is part of the Nagios ecosystem, meaning there is a huge number of resources you may find around in the community (plugins, skills, addons). Zabbix monitoring paradigms are totally different from Centreon. Centreon plugins have some kind of intelligence when they are launched, where Zabbix monitoring rules are configured centrally with the raw data collected. Testing both will help you understand :) Users used to say Centreon may be faster for setup and deployment. And in the end, both are full of monitoring features. Centreon has out of the box a full catalog of probes from cloud to the edge https://www.centreon.com/en/plugins-pack-list/ As soon as you have defined your monitoring policies and template, you can deploy it fast through command line API or REST API. Centreon plays well in the ITSM, Automation, AIOps spaces with many connectors for Prometheus, ServiceNow, GLPI, Ansible, Chef, Splunk, ... The polling server mode is one of the differentiators with Centreon. You set up remote server(s) and chose btw multiple information-exchange mechanisms. Powerful and resilient for remote, VPN, DMZ, satellite networks. Centreon is a good value for price to do a data collection (availability, performance, fault) on a wide range of technologies (physical, legacy, cloud). There are pro support and enterprise version with dashboards and reporting. IT Central Station gathers many user feedback you can rely on both Centreon & Zabbix https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/centreon-reviews  

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muutech
at Muutech Monitoring Solutions, S.L. · | 3 upvotes · 291.1K views
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We highly recommend Zabbix. We have used it to build our own monitoring product (available on cloud -like datadog- or on premise with support) because of its flexibility and extendability. It can be easily integrated with the powerful dashboarding and data aggregation of Grafana, so it is perfect. All configuration is done via web and templates, so it scales well and can be distributed via proxies. I think there also more companies providing consultancy in Zabbix (like ours) than Centreon and community is much wider. Also Zabbix roadmap and focus (compatibility with Elasticsearch, Prometheus, TimescaleDB) is really really good.

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Hi Vivek, what's your stack? If huge monitoring bills are your concern and if you’re using a number of JVM languages, or mostly Scala / Akka, and would like “one tool to monitor them all”, Kamon might be the friendliest choice to go for.

Kamon APM’s major benefit is it comes with a built-in dashboard for the most important metrics to monitor, taking the pain of figuring out what to monitor and building your own dashboards for weeks out of the monitoring.

https://kamon.io/apm/

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Matthias Fleschütz
Teamlead IT at NanoTemper Technologies · | 2 upvotes · 132.2K views
  • free open source
  • modern interface and architecture
  • large community
  • extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
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    What is Centreon?

    It is a network, system, applicative supervision and monitoring tool. It is one of the most flexible and powerful monitoring softwares on the market; it is absolutely free and Open Souce.

    What is Nagios?

    Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.

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