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Centreon moves to Cloud-First and Continuous Delivery with new version 23.04

With this new version, Centreon strengthens its SaaS deployment capabilities, AI-based predictive monitoring, and integrates a record number of ideas from its community.  Paris, May 2, 2023 – Centreon, the leader in digital performance monitoring, ...

Software Releases
Centreon 23.04: Discover the Latest Release

The Centreon IT Monitoring platform exists in many shapes and sizes: you may choose the open-source project or one of several commercial editions, and you may decide to run it as a self-hosted platform or ...

Best Practices
Open Source or Paid IT Monitoring: Which Should It Be?

When it comes to IT monitoring, an incredible diversity of solutions is available. The first broad choice is between an open source or a paid IT monitoring solution. Aside from their development  approach, their acquisition ...

Best Practices
TCO: The key to choosing an IT monitoring tool

When the time comes to shop for a new IT monitoring solution, you probably drafted a list of criteria to inform the final selection, based on the specs obtained from various stakeholders. How better can ...

Software Releases
Centreon Fall’21 Release Beta Program Now Available

Three years ago exactly, when releasing Centreon 18.10, we switched to a two-software-release-per-year lifecycle plan. We haven’t looked back since. Seven software releases later, we’re still committed to this schedule. Come spring and fall, you ...

Updates
What has our community been up to? Phone Apps to help you monitor on the go!

Centreon enjoys the privilege of being backed by a community of open source experts. Some are not only busy during the day mastering complex IT environments, they also work altruistically on their own time to ...

Best Practices
Monitoring Virtual Machines: Tips from an Open Source Pro

Guest Blog When it comes to mastering the monitoring and overall management of virtual machines, ITOps need choices that match their needs. Our software suite, Centreon EMS delivers plug and play unified views and interoperability, ...

Software Releases
Latest version of our software suite: Centreon 18.10!

We are proud to announce the following availability of the latest version of our software suite: Centreon 18.10! What’s new? First and foremost: Centreon Remote Server, a major addition to our much acclaimed distributed architecture. ...

Software Releases
Centreon 18.10: new versioning scheme (and more!)

In the coming weeks, Centreon will announce its newest version of the software suite. Version 18.10 will bring its fair share of new functionalities, with specific changes kept under wraps until its release. We’ll also ...

Tutorials
How to: use Centreon’s API Web interface

  Laurent Pinsivy, Centreon Product Manager, worked on a step by step tutorial: how to use Centreon API Web interface? If the video does not display, here are the steps: Let’s say you have two ...

Tutorials
How to install a Centreon platform from a Virtual Machine?

While most of the applications are now virtualized, it is probably time to virtualize your monitoring tool as well. Laurent Pinsivy, Centreon Product Manager, worked on a step by step tutorial to help you install ...

Best Practices
Follow the Data Stream Beyond Monitoring: Introducing Centreon Stream Connectors

Let’s first catch up on previous episodes. You’ve discovered that Centreon does not stop at monitoring individual elements that make up your IT system infrastructure. To your relief, Centreon provides the real time, top-level view ...

Updates
Join the first Centreon Canadian Meet-up in Toronto on June 13!

Centreon invites you to our first Canadian meetup “Open Source IT Monitoring Meet-Up with European Reference – Centreon”. New in Toronto but already 200,000+ users worldwide and 400+ large enterprise accounts in Europe, Centreon is ...

Tutorials
Export data to Graphite

Since its beginning, Centreon allows to display charts from collected performance data. These charts use RRDtool as data support storage and those are available in Centreon Web interface. Henceforth Centreon allows to export collected performance ...

Best Practices
Integrating Centreon with ServiceNow Event Management

This is the second of a serie of two blog posts discussing how to integrate the Centreon solution with ServiceNow. In the first post, we showed how to create incident tickets directly from the Centreon ...

Software Releases
CentOS 7: install Centreon

Because the end of life of version 6 of the CentOS linux distribution is approaching (November 30th, 2020), it is important for Centreon to offer a new ISO version 3.4.6 based on version 7 of ...

Updates
Get Certified on Centreon in Canada!

Centreon is now in Canada… For the first time we are holding open sessions of our training courses on Centreon, the N°1 commercial open source IT monitoring solution for large enterprise infrastructure in Toronto and ...

Best Practices
AIOps, ITSM and IT Automation integration with Centreon IT Monitoring

Centreon is the european leader for commercial open-source IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions. Many key assets contribute to this success, one of which we want to discuss in this blog post: the solution seamlessly integrates in ...

Best Practices
Monitoring projects: defining the scope, a key success factor that shouldn’t be overlooked

Good news. You’ve decided to set up a monitoring project. You’ve asked the right questions before starting and now you need to move forward to the next step: defining the scope of the project. As ...

Best Practices
6 good reasons to monitor

Here are 6 good reasons to monitor. 1-Real-time visibility of your IS and targeted informations Real-time control of IS and its components and dashboards adapted to user profiles for performance monitoring.  2-Decrease of IT service ...

Best Practices
5 topics to consider before launching a monitoring project

Through experience, we know that many monitoring projects start when an intern arrives in the company (it’s even how Centreon was born) and is put under the orders of an overworked “adminsys” who follows the ...

Tutorials
Create your own custom view with Centreon

Since several versions, Centreon allows to create your own custom views. Many widgets are available and can be configured with several settings to display needed information. This article explains how to create your first custom ...

Software Releases
New release of Centreon Poller Display 1.6

Centreon-Poller-Display is an open source and free module, available now in 1.6.0 version, designed to provide a light version of Centreon Web locally on your pollers. This interface allows users to view the monitored resources ...

Tutorials
Tutorial: how to translate Centreon

With our last best practices article about contribution management and feedback to contributors, you have learnt the different ways to contribute to Centreon and now you know that Centreon’s translation is one of them. Do you ...

Best Practices
Contribution management and feedback to contributors

As you know, Centreon is an open source solution. The software sources therefore remain open and accessible on development platforms such as GitHub. Under the license applied to Centreon sources, you can all read them, ...

Best Practices
The preconceived ideas about monitoring we would like to see the back of (because they’re 10 years out of date …)

Between the fans, those who find the subject complex, and those who only have a limited use for it, monitoring is still too often the victim of preconceived ideas from the turn of the century. ...

Software Releases
Centreon increases the security of its software

Centreon increases the security of its software required the audit of our solution to satisfy the requirements of ISO 27001. Centreon worked with its partners and users to correct a set of vulnerabilities. It is ...

Tutorials
Tutorial: how to automate your Centreon monitoring with Salt

Today, IT infrastructures are more and more complex and dynamic. With cloud infrastructure and applications based on containers, infrastructure changes quickly and must be up to date into your monitoring system. The best way to ...

Best Practices
You like Nagios? You will love Centreon!

When presenting our open-source IT Monitoring solution we’re often asked about how we position ourselves against Nagios®. After all, we started as a company in 2005 by developing an open-source web interface to the then-leading ...

Software Releases
New versions of Centreon products to guarantee Centreon 3.4 compatibility

The release of Centreon 3.4, the new version of our open source solution, is accompanied by a version upgrade of all Centreon products. The new versions of Centreon EPP, Centreon MAP, Centreon BAM and Centreon ...

Software Releases
Open source IT monitoring: official release of the new Centreon 3.4 version

Dear users, clients and partners, You have been patient and we fully appreciate it. We hope that this new IT monitoring experience using Centreon 3.4 will be to your liking! New features have been added, ...

Software Releases
Centreon Product lifecycle

Get informations about the Centreon product lifecycle. Some products such as Centreon CLAPI, Centreon Backup, Centreon Partitioning or Centreon KB are going to be reinjected in Centreon Web.