Centreon Monitoring Agent provides IT teams with simpler, faster, and smarter monitoring. Streamlined monitoring of hybrid and ephemeral environments marks a new milestone for observability.
Paris – July 15, 2025 – Centreon, A leader in digital performance monitoring, announces the general availability of the Centreon Monitoring Agent. This new open-source, multiplatform agent is provided with a dedicated user interface simplifying platform administration. The agent supports passive monitoring, as well as modern, hybrid and ephemeral infrastructures.
Agent-based Monitoring: A must in modern environments
From containers, native clouds, short lifecycles to scalable services: modern infrastructures are evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. Using monitoring agents is essential to ensure optimal visibility into such dynamic environments, which demand a high level of flexibility, frequent data collection, and automation.
“In modern environments, the use of agents is the norm. It guarantees both increasingly frequent data collection and scalability, key elements for optimal, high-performance monitoring,” says Raphaël Chauvel, Chief Product Officer at Centreon.
Centreon Monitoring Agent: Supporting customers in their transformation
Centreon introduces its monitoring agent in the context of the continued digital transformation of its customers. The agent is installed directly on the components to be monitored. This so-called passive monitoring mode complements the existing active approach.
The result is that Centreon monitoring is more flexible and quicker to deploy. The Centreon Monitoring Agent is fully secure, easy to configure across platforms, with unified administration on Linux and Windows, and supports Cloud or DMZ architectures. The primary benefit of the Centreon Monitoring Agent is that it simplifies configuration for ephemeral infrastructure and automates the monitoring of new components.
“Our new Centreon Monitoring Agent is ideal for monitoring rapidly changing environments, such as cloud-based infrastructure, or simplifying the process. Thanks to this innovation, we are supporting our customers as they adopt the latest digital environments, and offer them greater performance and security”, continues Raphaël Chauvel.
Beyond traditional metrics, observability
With its new monitoring agent, Centreon is further expanding its adoption of the OpenTelemetry framework. This unmatched open-source framework has become a staple in the observability market. Above all, the commitment to OpenTelemetry aligns with Centreon’s open-source DNA.
The open standard will eventually enable Centreon to go beyond traditional metrics, and ensure the unified collection of logs, traces, and events, paving the way for enhanced observability and a deeper understanding of application behavior. Thanks to the OTLP protocol, the Centreon Monitoring Agent ensures native interoperability with other systems and is fully integrated into the modern open-source ecosystem.
Close collaboration with the Centreon community
The development of the new Centreon Monitoring Agent was informed by feedback from over a hundred of The Watch community members participating to a dedicated beta program, as well as ongoing interactions with users. Through engaging its community, Centreon provides a solution tailored to users’ expectations.
“The beta program available on The Watch and exchanges with our users at regional Centreon Connect events have enabled us to test, refine and enrich the solution. The enthusiasm of our users for the Centreon Monitoring Agent was immediate and significant, reflecting a real and shared need. If this project was born at Centreon, it has grown within the community, and we’re very happy about that,” concludes Raphaël Chauvel.
The Centreon Monitoring Agent benefits from a lifecycle independent of Centreon versioning, meaning it will not require a Centreon upgrade. Scheduled for release in July 2025, it will be accessible to all, regardless of the Centreon edition they are using (Open-Source, IT Edition, Business Edition, MSP Edition) or the deployment mode (Self-Hosted and SaaS for Centreon Cloud).
For more information on the Centreon Monitoring Agent, visit the dedicated blog.
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About Centreon
A leader in IT and OT monitoring and observability, Centreon has developed a unique expertise in monitoring infrastructure, networks, and digital user experience since 2005. Today, 1200 customers, including public organizations, enterprises, and MSPs worldwide, an extended network of 80 partners, and 250,000 users in 60 countries rely on Centreon daily. With a 160-person team working from five different countries, Centreon achieves an average annual growth of 25%. For more information, visit centreon.com.
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