Centreon is one of the most flexible and performant monitoring software under GPL license.

Meant for any kind of users, Centreon fits the indicators of systems, networks and applications.

Centreon gathers functionalities that are essential to the monitoring of critical infrastructures.

Being modular, it can evolve depending on your needs thus allowing you to extend its functionalities.

Real time system monitoring

Flexible configuration

Performance management

Hierarchical notification system

Load distribution/

High availability

System management

User access controls

Dashboards

• Outage detection
• Availability detection
• Fine-grained thresholds definitions for alerts
• Active (pull) queries
• Passive (push) queries
• SNMP trap receipts
• Hosts group metrics compositing
• Services group metrics compositing
• Aggregate reporting
• SLA metrics aggregation (Meta service)
• Downtimes scheduling
• Issue acknowledgments mechanisms
• Comments recording
• Search filters for log interrogations
• Configurable frequencies for KPI collection

• Load analysis breakdowns as per:
  • strategy (security);
  • geography (WAN);
  • network topology.

• Fail-over satellite server configuration
• Pre-production satellite server configuration

• High availability configuration using:
  • replicated MySQL databases;
  • web interfaces;
  • monitoring engines;
  • graphs/reports.

Performance management

• Performance data archival (MySQL)
• Data presented with RRDTool graphical reports
• Metric and graphic data comparisons
• Graphical status (trend) reporting
• Data monitoring over time
• CSV/XML exports
• KPI and status correlations
• Configurable graphical display templates
• Configurable viewing periods

• Access group definitions
• Interface access restrictions
• Hosts group resource view restrictions
• Service groups resource view restrictions
• Service category resource view restrictions
• LDAP Authentication
• User action logs

• Nagios 3 compatibility
• Configuration template management
• Hosts and services template interaction
• Application template library management
• N-level template inheritance
• Automatic SNMP traps collection and management
• Customised macro
• Network topology management
• Atomic KPI configuration

• Integration of customised or user-written extensions:
  • Centreon Syslog;
  • Centreon WeatherMap;
  • Centreon Map;
  • Centreon Business Activities Monitoring;
  • Centreon Business Intelligence;
  • Centreon Auto Deployment Tool;
  • Centreon Disco;
  • Centreon NTOP;
  • Centreon CLAPI.
• Contact Merethis directly for a full list of available extensions

• Optional command line operation of Centreon for:
  • adding hosts;
  • restarting Nagios;
  • generating configurations.
• Configuration loading from CSV or Nagios files.

• Business dependencies
• Network dependencies
• Ticketing tools interfaces (Request Traquer, etc)
• Notification via mail, SMS or other systems
• Hierarchical escalation configuration

• Daily statistics of status durations
• Daily statistics on alerts frequencies
• Single server online reporting
• Hosts online reporting
• Service group online reporting
• Configurable update frequencies
• CSV report export
• Interactive timeline for report monitoring