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Monitoring OT With Raspberry Pi and Centreon

It might be a little late to pick raspberries, but it’s never too late to start monitoring operational technologies, such as SCADA. And it’s now easier than ever:  Centreon 23.10 lets you monitor your industrial ...

Press Release
Centreon simplifies the convergence of IT and OT monitoring

The new Centreon 23.10 release supports Raspberry Pi, confirming Centreon’s position at the forefront of the convergence of IT and OT monitoring Paris, November 30, 2023 – Centreon, a leader in digital performance monitoring is ...

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7 Essential Monitoring Best Practices for Extended IT Visibility

IT monitoring plays a crucial role in the efficient management of today’s hybrid IT infrastructures. With the growing complexity of IT environments, it is essential to adopt good monitoring practices to guarantee extended visibility and ...

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Extending visibility to hybrid IT for optimized digital performance

Accelerated digital transformation has reshaped IT landscapes, challenging IT departments and ITOps teams to attain unprecedented visibility into their IT estate.  Digital performance, which is closely linked to the overall success of organizations, relies on ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Three ways to reduce IT monitoring costs

The war in Ukraine and the global rise of inflation have compounding effects on the global economy, which was just starting to recover from the pandemic.  In that context, the topic of cost reduction becomes ...

Tutorials
Monitoring Microsoft Office 365 with Centreon

In this tutorial, we’ll show how Centreon can monitor Office 365 online services. Office 365 is a line of online subscription services offered by Microsoft in their Microsoft Office product suite. Office 365 covers document ...

Tutorials
Using Centreon Host Discovery to monitor a VMware infrastructure

Laurent Pinsivy, Centreon Product Manager, and Amanda Bankes, MarCom Manager, worked on a step by step tutorial: Using Centreon Host Discovery to monitor a VMware infrastructure.   Cannot read the video? Here is the transcript: Welcome ...

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Monitoring Kubernetes and Docker with Centreon

In this tutorial we will show how Centreon can monitor a Kubernetes cluster orchestrating Docker containers. Kubernetes is the most popular orchestration solution when it comes to deploying containerized applications and microservices. And Prometheus comes ...

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How to Troubleshoot TCP Performance for Your SaaS and Cloud Applications

Guest article From time to time, we like to ask our partners to share their ITOp expertise and best practices with you. Today, Boris Rogier Director of Business Development at Accedian discusses TCP performance for ...

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Dealing With Outdated IT—And Being OK With It

“Obsolete” is no one’s favorite word (unless you sell new tech). Yet, we all have to deal with it at some point in the digital transformation journey. There are countless reasons to cling to outdated ...

Updates
Finally: Much Needed ITOps Visibility into End User Experience

Integration of Accedian’s SkyLIGHTTM PVX NAPM solution into Centreon What would you rather know? That your organization’s infrastructure is running normally? Or That users are experiencing a productive day thanks to optimally delivered IT service? ...

Tutorials
Monitoring Microsoft Azure with Centreon

In this tutorial we’ll describe how Centreon can monitor the resources you’re deploying into the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. To make things easier we’ll take an example: how to monitor an Azure Virtual Machine with ...

Tutorials
Monitoring AWS with Centreon

In this tutorial, we’ll describe how Centreon can monitor the resources you’re deploying into the Amazon Web Services cloud platform. The Centreon solution includes multiple plugins to monitor AWS: one plugin per AWS service. At ...

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Industry-grade IT monitoring in a robust open source platform

From an early purpose of making Nagios® easier to use and manage, Centreon has since grown into its own as a robust industry-grade monitoring platform for any digital and IT-savvy company. System administrators, network engineers, ...

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Connecting ServiceNow to your Centreon platform

This post is the first one in a series of two posts describing how Centreon can interface to ServiceNow. Today we’re discussing incident management. Integrating IT Monitoring with IT Service Management The IT Monitoring platform ...

Tutorials
Manage Centreon Broker link failures

Centreon Broker is the link between monitoring scheduler and MySQL to store collected data. But Centreon Broker is first of all a multi-input and multi-output manager. What are Centreon Broker’s components? To connect to Centreon ...