About Centreon

A privately held company, Centreon was created in 2005 when its founders envisioned an entirely new approach to IT monitoring based on an Open Source software framework. Today, Centreon has grown into a leader in business-aware IT monitoring, its platform is used by enterprise customers around the world to eliminate costly downtime and align their IT operations with their business goals.
The world runs on increasingly complex IT demanding always-on performance. Organizations must keep an unblinking eye on their IT infrastructure and operations to ensure service uptime and peak network availability. Centreon’s mission is to provide IT teams with the holistic visibility and insights they need to meet this challenge and deliver business performance excellence.

Holistic, Business-Aware and Future-Ready
Alongside its growing, global network of strategic partners, resellers, enterprise system integrators and MSPs, Centreon delivers, technical support, expertise services and training. Its head offices are located in Paris and Toronto, with sales offices in Geneva, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Toulouse, France.
Centreon’s DNA is Open Source
Centreon was born in Open Source. The fundamentals of collaboration, flexibility and interoperability remain at the company’s core and are the driving force behind its growth. Today, Centreon stewards a dynamic, global Open Source community of more than 200,000 IT professionals that inspire technology advancements and innovation.
Corporate Milestones
2003 | Open Source project launched by founders Julien Mathis and Romain Le Merlus. |
2005 | Company is created. |
2008 | Launch of Centreon commercial IT monitoring platform. |
2009 | Centreon IT monitoring platform enhanced with business-aware extensions. |
2013 | Growth of international network of partners and customers. |
2015 | Corporate growth strategy advanced to encompass multisite enterprises and SMBs. |
2018 | Expanded operations into North America and The Benelux Union. New offices established in Toronto, Luxembourg and Geneva. |
2019 | Strategic new channel and technology partnerships established in Europe and North America. IT monitoring platform is expanded to support dynamic multicloud environments, containers, distributed networks and IoT. |
2020 | Centreon increases its work force by over 30% and doubles revenues from 2015. |
Monitoring for Cloud-to-Edge Performance


The Never-Ending Journey to Modern IT
IT continually reinvents itself with new ways to implement and deliver innovative services with greater speed, agility or cost-effectiveness. This tasks IT operations with the challenge of maintaining infrastructure and services that layer decades of once-innovative technologies with new technologies — all while preparing for the next wave of modernity. This is transformative IT, a never-ending journey to modern IT.
Successfully navigating any journey into the unknown is made safer and easier with a guide, a trusted partner that can provide insights to help IT operations understand modern IT while facilitating the task of making it work to unlock full business potential. Key to avoiding pitfalls on the path to modern IT are:
Boilerplate
Centreon is a global provider of business-aware IT monitoring for always-on operations and performance excellence. The company’s AIOps-ready, business-aware IT monitoring platform is renowned for its unique ability to monitor today’s complex and converging infrastructures, from Cloud-to-Edge. Privately held, Centreon was founded in 2005 with roots in Open Source software. The company continues to steward a dynamic Open Source framework and a growing, vibrant global community of 200,000. Today, Centreon is trusted by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of public and private sectors. Its head offices are located in Paris and Toronto, with sales offices in Geneva, Luxembourg and Toulouse.