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8 Resolutions to Elevate ITOps in 2025
As the new year begins, ITOps teams are looking for strategies to stay ahead of the curve in an ever-evolving IT landscape - and what better way than monitoring it! Hybrid infrastructure, cloud-native architectures, and edge computing …
Read →8 Resolutions to Elevate ITOps in 2025As the new year begins, ITOps teams are looking for strategies to stay ahead of the curve in an ever-evolving IT landscape - and what better way than monitoring it! Hybrid infrastructure, cloud-native architectures, and edge computing …A Roundup of I&O and Monitoring Trends for 2025What should be on your radar in 2025 as you seek to streamline and improve infrastructure and operations, and how they are monitored? There are no big surprises here: infrastructure & operations (I&O) will continue …Best practices to ensure IT and OT uptimeIn today’s fast-paced digital world, ensuring IT and OT uptime is more crucial than ever for any organization’s success. Service interruptions can have devastating impacts on productivity, customer satisfaction, and overall business operations. For IT …Connecting Centreon and Canopsis to Strengthen Observability in an Open-source EcosystemIntegrating monitoring and hypervision tools creates a synergy that can significantly improve IT infrastructure monitoring. Monitoring tools provide specific expertise and greater granularity, while hypervision tools provide enriched, consolidated analysis. When combined, they promote efficient, …Monitor anything, anywhere: achieve the triple aim of operational excellenceIn today’s fast-paced digital landscape, IT operations play a key role in ensuring organizational success. For IT Operations (ITOps) Managers, the challenge lies in maintaining seamless operations, boosting team efficiency, and enhancing overall performance. This …Unlock the Power of IT and OT Convergence with CentreonIn today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the convergence of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) is more critical than ever. Businesses need a unified approach to manage and monitor their diverse technology ecosystems. Centreon offers …IT & OT Convergence: The Importance of Monitoring Non-IT EquipmentMonitoring IT equipment is standard practice in our digital age. But today, we’re delving into a relatively less explored area: monitoring non-IT equipment – particularly operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Why …Geographical vs operational views: how to implement the right type of views for OT equipment monitoring?In a span where networks, OT equipment, and sites are growing at an exponential rate, visibility becomes a prime concern. When you are confronted with monitoring thousands of devices scattered across multiple sites, a real-time, …Centreon’s seamless integration with OT environments: enhancing monitoring capabilities across industriesIn the age of digital transformation, innovative User Experience requires interactions with non-IT devices in the physical world. Industrial control systems (ICS) have evolved, and they are now increasingly connected to Business Applications in the …Navigating the unique challenges of Operational Technology (OT) monitoring: the case for centralized solutionsOperational Technology (OT) systems form the backbone of critical infrastructure across various industries, ranging from manufacturing plants and utilities to transportation networks and financial institutions. Unlike traditional Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, which primarily focuses on …Beyond Monitoring IT, the impact of OT in performance managementOperational Technology (OT) refers to the hardware and software systems used to monitor and control physical devices, processes, and infrastructure in industrial environments. Unlike Information Technology (IT), which focuses on data processing and communication, OT …Navigating the modern MSP landscape: trends and modernization strategiesThe Managed Service Provider (MSP) industry is in the throes of profound transformation, catalyzed by rapid advancements in technology, shifts in the global economy, and demanding customer expectations. In the ever-evolving landscape of Managed Service …Monitoring OT With Raspberry Pi and CentreonIt 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 …Centreon AIOps Extension: How AI in Monitoring Can Skyrocket IT Operations Team ProductivityArtificial intelligence (AI) has been making headlines for several months, often featuring the instantly famous ChatGPT. But away from the projectors, AI is quietly taking its place in our daily lives, and is now integrated …What is Centreon’s The Watch?The Watch is Centreon’s community platform: a place to find and provide help, contribute to product evolutions and grow the knowledge base. Whether you’re a high-level Centreon expert, a long-time or recent user, whether you’re …7 Essential Monitoring Best Practices for Extended IT VisibilityIT 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 …Extending visibility to hybrid IT for optimized digital performanceAccelerated 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 …SD-WAN: What If You Actually Switched to Monitoring?Many organizations have implemented SD-WAN to enhance performance and connectivity. Yet, it rarely offers optimal visibility into all performance improvement levers. Here’s how to improve SD-WAN monitoring. According to IDC predictions, global spending on SD-WAN …Self-Hosted IT Monitoring: Does it Still Make Sense in this Cloud Era?Answering this question from the perspective of TCO, high availability, and security. Historically, IT monitoring software was deployed within organizations in an on-premised, self-hosted fashion. But the rising popularity - and affordability - of cloud hosting brought many IT …SaaS IT Monitoring TCO: Enabling Innovation with the CloudMeet Dennis, an IT manager shopping for a SaaS IT monitoring solution. Dennis wants his IT team to benefit from the ease of access cloud enables. But comparing license costs between the SaaS and self-hosted …Why you need a hybrid IT monitoring solutionHybrid IT combines various cloud services, private or public, with other types of on-premises or edge IT infrastructure. This computing strategy is changing how ITOps think about IT infrastructure monitoring. The focus is on a …Saas IT monitoring vs. self-hosted? Can TCO help make the best choice?SaaS IT monitoring is becoming the new norm, although traditionally, IT monitoring platforms were deployed on premises, in self-hosted fashion. Now, where does your organization stand in the SaaS IT monitoring vs. self-hosted debate? Even …Integrating Network Assurance and IT Infrastructure Monitoring for stronger networksIt’s Monday morning, and John, a network engineer, is struggling with customers complaining about network issues. Yet no alerts are showing in the monitoring tool. What’s going on here? You may suggest John solves his …ITOps 2023 Trends: Emphasis on Capacity BuildingWhat’s in store for ITOps in 2023? Despite budget restrictions and much higher expectations, the news may be good for ITOps this year. Why? Because the smart way out for CIOs is to build ITOps …4 criteria to select an IT monitoring tool that will boost digital performanceThe world is changing and so are monitoring tools. Back in the days when IT was more technical than strategic, IT monitoring tools consisted mostly in alert management. Today, sophisticated IT monitoring solutions play a …A Look at Gartner Technology Trends 2023Gartner recently issued its technology trends for 2023 – and it’s always exciting to take a look forward. While these high level 2023 technology trends may not materialize overnight in the daily life of ITOps, …Planning for Sustainable and Cost-effective IT InfrastructureWhich cloud infrastructure and related innovations will help I&O leaders adapt to an inflationary economy while improving sustainability and staying competitive? This blog post provides an overview of key trends informing the planning for sustainable …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 …TCO: The key to choosing an IT monitoring toolWhen 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 …Energy Saving Tips for ITOpsITOps are being tapped on the shoulder to contribute more to the organization’s efforts to save up on energy. Whether it’s to meet sustainability goals, reduce costs, or face pressing geopolitical imperatives, ITOps have at …Three ways to reduce IT monitoring costsThe 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 …Agent-d vs. agentless monitoring: what to choose for 2022 and beyondAgent-based vs. agentless monitoring - which one is best today? The agent vs. agentless question is not exactly new. You may have decided years ago which to use and for what, but considering the speed at which …Connect Centreon with ip-label’s Ekara for enhanced user experience monitoringWe were recently announcing our partnership with ip-label, the digital experience measurement solution provider. Not resting on our laurels, we got to work and developed a Plugin Pack which makes Centreon connect with Ekara, ip-label’s …A primer on monitoring cloud infrastructureThe cloud is a staple of digital environments, and monitoring cloud infrastructure is therefore an inescapable reality for ITOps, including IT production directors, application owners, and cloud architects. Cloud monitoring enables observability into cloud-based infrastructure, …User authentication for your IT monitoring solution - keeping it secure & simpleThe Centreon software is no exception: to gain access, users need to provide credentials so they can be authenticated. That’s how you protect the security and the integrity of your system. But authentication can also …What Makes the Best Cloud Monitoring SolutionBeyond cool features and capabilities, the best cloud monitoring solution is one that will equip you to face some of the most transformative cloud computing challenges over the next few years: intensified cloud migration, mind-numbing …AIOps for IT Monitoring: What to Expect Today and TomorrowArtificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are being applied across a wide range of applications, from entertainment to healthcare to transportation … and of course, IT operations, which gave us AIOps. But concretely, …Auto-discovery and IT monitoring: Going beyond the basicsNetwork discovery tools are not newcomers in monitoring platforms. But in recent years, and even more so in 2022, discovery capabilities are being reinforced to better meet needs relating to infrastructure hybridization and the new …Top 2022 IT trends that will make IT monitoring count even moreAs the year closes, let’s take a leap forward, looking at the top 2022 IT trends and what they mean for teams that rely on IT monitoring to ensure the digital business works optimally. This …Resolutions for 2022 - 5 keys to making IT monitoring a true DX enabler for the new yearYou know the drill: It’s a brand-new year, and you’ve got to make some resolutions. OK, you might not keep them all, like that time you said you’d cut down on Nutella. New year resolutions …A look back: Five highlights from 2021Year-end is the perfect time to look back and take stock. For all of us at Centreon, and we hope it was the same for you, clients, partners, and community members, 2021 did not disappoint. …Insider’s View: Enhance your Teamwork within a React project with ESLint and PrettierIntroduction This article is for the developers in our community. Centreon’s own developer team is always looking to improve code quality, but above all productivity, so we can all focus on what makes coding interesting: …Discovery Pack: Speed up your monitoring and make it more reliable using the new Nmap discovery toolsUsing Centreon 21.10 you can now have automatic device and network service discovery using the Nmap utility. This network discovery is based on a new Centreon Plugin and its associated Plugin Pack that triggers the …IT Monitoring, Green IT & Sustainable Operations -Perspectives from the C-Suite.As the sun sets on COP26, it’s to be hoped the topic of green IT will not be obscured by a return to business-as-usual. Green IT is a key component of greenhouse-gas emission reduction efforts. …Connecting Centreon and PagerDuty: Configuration TipsA while back, we discussed the benefits of connecting PagerDuty and Centreon. Many of you wanted to learn more on this configuration, to get optimal results. So here they are, our best tips for you …MSP: 4 levers to create customer value using your IT monitoring solutionAs an MSP, you operate in a highly competitive market. At Centreon, we believe that with the help of smart monitoring, MSPs will no longer have to choose between improving productivity, creating high value-added services …How accelerated digitalization is making MSPs rethink their businessThe digital revolution did not change your mission as a Managed Service Provider (MSP): Ensuring your clients’ IT systems are available and productive, through offering an array of customized managed services. From network monitoring to …Insider’s View: How We Optimized Centreon WebFrom the launch of Centreon 18.10 onwards, we started using the React JavaScript library in order to make our user interface more enjoyable and dynamic. We first redesigned the “Top Counters”, providing an overview of …Centreon Troubleshooting Series | Episode 2: Help! Actions on monitored objects aren’t being appliedIn the first article of this series, which aims to provide a bounty of hints to solve technical problems faster, you discovered tools and methods to spot and troubleshoot connection issues between pollers and the …Automation: Connected Monitoring’s Secret SauceIn increasingly hybrid environments, monitoring requires a high level of interconnection to ensure the highest visibility on the performance of IT services supporting the business. This is why IT automation has become an essential part …Hey Centreon! I want to interconnect with the rest of my stack.In order to monitor IT service performance and ensure operational excellence, ITOps in the digital enterprise need to have a holistic view over their IT system, from cloud to edge, as well as IoT and …Centreon Troubleshooting Series | Episode 1: Help! My Poller is DownThis tutorial on troubleshooting poller issues is the first installment of a series devoted to the resolution of common issues reported by clients and managed by our teams. Poller issues generally take two forms #1: …Connected Monitoring to Enable Holistic, Cloud to Edge VisibilityOne of the main attributes of IT monitoring is its ability to adapt to major changes in IT systems and to provide a virtuous loop of visibility over every component in these IT systems, from …How to quickly set up a Centreon 21.04 with VagrantIntroduction As published on our blog, we are very happy to share with you the release of the latest Centreon 21.04 version. This is the third time that the Centreon team successfully released a new …Analyze the response time of your websites with precision with Curl and CentreonCentreon is an ultraconnected monitoring solution and our teams regularly develop new features to help you gain even more interoperability within your environment. Our teams have now enhanced the website monitoring base to introduce the …How Can CIOs Demonstrate IT Value to Business? (And How Can IT Monitoring Help?)In digital organizations, collaboration between IT and lines of business is intensifying. Lines of business need to understand IT, while IT teams need to gain strong awareness on how the business creates value, so they …Designing a Connected ITOps Monitoring ExperienceWe recently discussed the keys to a connected ITOps monitoring experience. This is a short list to recap how you can design the type of ITOps monitoring experience that will sustain effective collaboration, shorten incident …Connected Monitoring: Your Path to ObservabilityI&O practitioners are adopting new technologies in their organization’s transition towards business observability. They are leaving behind legacy, disconnected ITOps monitoring practices and solutions to build an observability stack that matches their digital organization’s means …Seamless collaboration: Send Centreon notifications in Microsoft Teams roomsOver the last few months, Microsoft Teams has become one of the leading collaborative platforms, with a range of services from video conferencing to instant messaging and many other features that facilitate the daily work …Everything you’ve always wanted to know about Centreon and Opsgenie but were afraid to askCentreon, the reference monitoring platform, provides quality data and unparalleled aggregation and correlation capabilities, giving a holistic view from cloud to edge. In an ever-growing IT environment, new tools are designed every day to guarantee …Preparing the future of IT monitoring: how can you set up your IT system for sustainable growthThe criticality of IT monitoring in organizations should not be underestimated, and it is not. Its role is crucial in ensuring availability, reliability and compliance of IT equipment and data. It goes far beyond merely …4 Levels of Integration for Next Gen, connected IT Ops monitoringWith digital business transformation and a mandate to improve operational excellence, I&O leaders are betting on integration to support 2021’s most important initiatives. Building from their core mission, the delivery of quality and always-on IT …Interfacing Centreon with Prometheus: How to get the most out of connected monitoringConnecting Centreon to Prometheus through the Plugin Pack centreon-pack-cloud-prometheus-api allows you to use the metrics collected by Prometheus directly in Centreon. You can centralize data collection results and send alerts from within Centreon. With its …Centreon and Nagios: 3 milestones to understand their distinctiveness“Centreon is Nagios’s graphical user interface”, “Nagios and Centreon use the same code”, “Centreon is Nagios’s cousin”. As we notice such mythsare still alive today, it’s pertinent to draft a short history of Centreon based …Rapport ANSSI – Q&A CentreonContext for this FAQ On February 15, the French national agency for the security of information systems, ANSSI, reported on an intrusion campaign targeting an obsolete and unsupported version of the free, open-source monitoring software …Connected Monitoring: Monitor your Blockchain with CentreonCo-authored by Simon Bomm from Centreon and Nicolas Heulot from IRT SystemX whom we warmly thank. - Blockchain technology now extends well beyond the scope of finance. Enterprises are forming consortia to deploy common blockchain …Why blockchain technology calls for connected monitoringMany thanks to Nicolas Heulot from IRT SystemX for this great content, and Simon Bomm from Centreon. - Today, blockchain technology is a mainstream topic. It’s been talked about in the media, most often in …Connected IT Monitoring is Key to Next Generation of ITOps MonitoringJust as seamlessly as you navigate the web, you should be able to “surf” the full length of the IT estate, no matter the technologies that comprise it. This smooth surfing is called Connected Monitoring, …5 Trends for a New ITOps Roadmap in 2021While telecommuting will continue to shape your reality this year, it doesn’t mean you’re not going places in 2021. This blog post looks at some ITOps trends that are calling for a new roadmap to …How ITOps will work in 2021The credo of the digital business in 2021: empower the user with data everywhere and 24-7 breakneck speed service. No wonder that in North America alone, 74% of organizations will grow their I&O team over …How people will work in 2021First thing to get straight: 2021 is not a back-to-normal year. It’s the year we learn to manage the long-term and potentially “forever” impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trends that emerged in the early months …5 stats that show Business KPIs still pose a major challenge in IT monitoringOver the years, ITOps have seen monitoring become increasingly strategic for the business. The reason is simple: business relies on IT. No IT means no business. Centreon’s State of IT Monitoring has highlighted the fact …Unified IT monitoring: Liftoff to holistic and never look backThe State of IT Monitoring, a survey commissioned by Centreon has highlighted the ever-growing importance of IT monitoring in organizations between now and 2023. It also pinpoints the need for ITOps to change their monitoring …IT budget: 4 arguments to fight for your IT monitoring budget in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic!We can’t deny the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted IT trends worldwide. The acceleration of digital transformation and telecommuting have prompted organizations to review their I&O strategies to adapt to the changing needs of both customers …IT monitoring is the new long-term strategic priority for digital businesses and here’s whyThe 1st edition of State of IT Monitoring, a research by Centreon and Vanson Bourne confirms the strategic importance of IT monitoring in corporate governance. This trend, which has accelerated since the beginning of the …Graylog and Centreon: Your IT monitoring system’s got talent!With the increasing reliance on infrastructure in managing IT business which the current health and economic crisis are intensifying, visibility on the IT system is more crucial than ever. Attaining such a level of visibility …Match the Digital Journey with a Smart Monitoring JourneyLet’s play the matching game! In this post we draw a parallel between your business infinite digital journey and your own journey towards smart monitoring, the unique approach to master present and future IT complexity. …State of IT monitoring: IT monitoring, now an essential part of corporate governanceCentreon carried out its first State of IT monitoring with the assistance of independent firm Vanson Bourne. Collecting responses from 600 IT professionals in Europe and North America, the survey confirms the strategic importance of …ITOps at Work: Building a Modern IT Monitoring House for 2021If 2020 was a rocky year that made you think, “Let’s do things better next year,” here’s an interesting project for 2021: building a modern IT monitoring house. As IT monitoring pursues its transformation to …MSPs: 3 growth opportunities driven by Smart Monitoring to win the digital experience raceIn a fast-changing environment and reduced time-to-market context, MSPs are facing a new challenge: supporting their clients in their strategic shift towards the digital enterprise while continuing to do their job well. So is the …Connecting Centreon to PagerDuty: the best way for your teams to benefit from PagerDutyIn a world where IT is evolving at breakneck speed, it is essential for IT monitoring to provide a holistic view over infrastructure, whether on-premise, in the Cloud or the Edge. To increase visibility, it …IT Monitoring: Digitalization Blindspots & Near Death ExperiencesDigital transformation is a hot topic that triggers countless conversations on a range of technological adoption and capabilities. But one often overlooked aspect comes with dire consequences. The very ability to manage the complexity of …Customer experience: 6 not-to-be-missed Smart Monitoring trends this yearTransforming one’s monitoring practices to meet the demands of customer experience and to achieve business goals is (very) much in style these days. But don’t get it wrong. This fundamental trend is prompting I&O to …Interfacing Centreon with Splunk: how to get the best of both worlds in real time!Splunk is a very powerful software solution for analyzing and restoring data from all types of machines and applications. By combining Splunk’s processing capacity with Centreon’s power and simplicity for collecting data, you can implement …Out with Device-Centric Monitoring!2020 is the perfect year to push for change. There’s an urgency to remove digitalization roadblocks, and ITOps are being challenged to play a larger part in organizational performance. More than ever, they are being …Back to the future… in 2030“Say Mommy, say Daddy, what was IT monitoring like before Smart Monitoring? “ You’ve probably heard about dystopian novels, such as The Handmaid’s Tale, which propel the hero into an alternative reality or future? Let’s …Ebook: IT Monitoring has superpowers… and so do youWhile IT monitoring originates as far back as IT itself does, for a long time its scope was limited to technical monitoring and to Production and Infrastructure teams. However, with business and IT being inevitably …New IT monitoring challenges: are you customer-centric ready?After many years of being just buzz words, new technology – Artificial Intelligence (AI) the Cloud or IoT – have made their way into businesses and have become an operational reality. The digital revolution has …Interfacing Netdata with Centreon: your new ally to monitor the status of your Linux servers in real timeMonitoring Linux servers, which are used to host business applications as well as e-commerce sites, has become a key point in the operational excellence of a company’s IT system. Being familiar with response time, number …IT Monitoring Modernization Roadmap“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” – Jack Welsh Is it time to modernize IT monitoring? It’s not that hard if …5 Essential Questions on the Cost of IT MonitoringIt’s cost review season! IT monitoring is in itself an activity that helps control costs through continuous performance analytics, but today it’s time to check if you’re overspending on IT monitoring tools. IT monitoring pricing …7 Signs it’s time to optimize your IT monitoring investmentsFew ITOps specialists wake up at night thinking of the up to 301 different IT monitoring tools, proprietary or open source, that are part of the average IT estate. But what if they did? Cleaning …Monitoring Office 365 with Centreon: making the first step towards a digital workplace easyThe digital transformation of organizations mainly relies on a fundamental first step: teams endorsing process digitalization and firstly the workspace. In this digital workplace, providing Office 365 plays a full part in the adoption of …The role of connectors in smart IT infrastructure monitoringEveryone used to agree that: an IT monitoring perimeter is a pain to keep up to date. But today, this is a myth. Connectors, often called “plugins,” do all the heavy lifting, ensuring instant, comprehensive …How to prepare for AIOps - even if you’re not there yetReading the future is certainly the most difficult requirement on your job description. For many organizations, AIOps still bring more questions than they can answer. When and how should you adopt AIOps (or Artificial Intelligence …Monitoring Azure VPN Gateway with CentreonMonitoring Azure VPN Gateway with Centreon: from Cloud to Edge, towards holistic monitoring of your IT infrastructure. As we have seen in previous articles, Cloud monitoring is a reality which requires having a global vision …5 benefits of adding user experience to your IT monitoringCentreon 20.04 integrates a new connector for Maltem Insight Performance (MIP), enabling the collection of user experience KPIs. In this blog post, Marion Dussarrat, Marketing Manager from Maltem explains the benefits of adding user experience …Does MTTR still count today? Can it still be improved?Yes and yes. IT infrastructure monitoring (some call it network monitoring) has evolved over the years to incorporate a focus on business performance, tracking the essential workflows that support the ability of a business to, …Upgrade to Centreon 20.04 to enjoy additional capabilitiesCentreon 20.04 is here, and with it extended capabilities in many areas. This infographic provides a quick overview. Need to dive deeper? Read this post or refer to the release notes.Monitoring AWS RDS with Centreon, for a full visibility on hybrid ITIt is expected that by 2025 about 40% of IT workload will reside in the Public Cloud, as opposed to 19% in 2019. The latest trends on the subject are about distributing workload among multiple …3 infrastructure best practices for the 2020sThe clock is ticking. IT monitoring that limits itself to measuring availability and resource levels will have lost most of its relevance in just a few years. This will limit the organization’s ability to innovate …How to use ITIM to make infrastructure and operations (I&O) more customer-centricWe’ve recently described what legacy IT infrastructure monitoring (ITIM) is and reviewed the risk of maintaining the status quo. By definition and purpose, the digital organization is focused on services and value, while I&O is …COVID-19: 7 Tips for Setting-Up Remote Work and Other Emergency MeasuresAt the outset of the pandemic, we quickly set up all of our employees for remote work and adapted our IT system so it could manage the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, including lockdowns happening …What is Legacy IT Monitoring?If, like in a majority of organizations, your IT infrastructure has evolved towards a digitalized architecture (i.e., cloud, containers, microservices, containers), the time may be ripe to modernize your ITIM practices too. According to industry …Monitoring Microsoft Office 365 with CentreonIn 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 …Using Centreon Host Discovery to monitor a VMware infrastructureLaurent 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 …Monitoring Virtual Machines: Tips from an Open Source ProGuest 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, …Monitoring Kubernetes and Docker with CentreonIn 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 …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 …Monitoring Microsoft Azure with CentreonIn 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 …Monitoring AWS with CentreonIn 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 …Give Everyone a View on Business-Critical IT PerformanceLet’s set the stage with what we know already: in the digital economy, an organization’s performance is entirely dependent on the smooth operations of its IT system. How are employees expected to do their job …How to: use Centreon’s API Web interfaceLaurent 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 …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 …Export data to GraphiteSince 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 …Connecting ServiceNow to your Centreon platformThis 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 …Failing the implementation of your monitoring solution (guaranteed): the 10 most common errorsMonitoring has been part of the IT landscape for a long time and we often forget that deploying a monitoring solution needs to follow precise rules. Due to the fact that a large number of …Manage Centreon Broker link failuresCentreon 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 …Opinion piece: what monitoring owes to DevOps (and vice versa)Once upon a time was IT monitoring. A nice Swiss army knife which had the solution to everyone’s monitoring problems. But that was before… Before the Cloud, SaaS, serverless, agility, automation, machine learning, AI… In just …Monitor your VMware infrastructureThe Plugin Packs are designed to quickly and easily automate the configuration of items to monitor and expand checks by delivering useful information to the IT operational team – even if you are a beginner. …8 criteria for choosing your IT monitoring tool, or how to switch from love at first sight to a long-term relationship!A love affair is burgeoning between you and your monitoring tool. It’s a relationship that should be steady and long term, quite simply because it’s going to be your everyday partner for a long time. …Opinion piece: your monitoring tool has super powers…If the origins of IT monitoring are the same as those of IT itself, its use has only really grown over the past 20 years alongside the generalized deployment of IT in business. For a …Monitoring projects: defining the scope, a key success factor that shouldn’t be overlookedGood 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 …Monitor your Synology NAS instantly!With more than 150 domains, the Centreon Plugin Packs cover a wide variety of components that are widely used in ISD: network, applications, storage, databases, servers, hardware, etc Since Centreon 3.4 (latest open source version), …Improve your Time-To-Monitoring with Centreon Plugin PacksCentreon, our robust open source monitoring platform is functionally complete and ready to use at no cost. However, to launch Centreon into a specific IT infrastructure, probes need to be developed and integrated to extract …How Centreon EMS can help your ITOM teams to monitor infrastructure & IT services?In our recent tutorial “Create your own custom view with Centreon”, Laurent teached you how to use the widgets correctly. I would like to supplement that tutorial today by showing you how to use the …Create your own custom view with CentreonSince 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 …Tutorial: how to translate CentreonWith 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 …Tutorial: Using Plugin Packs for fast monitoring deploymentSince the Centreon version 3.4 release, 6 Plugin Packs are available free: Cisco standard: used for basic Cisco hardware monitoring; Linux SNMP: used to monitor the main GNU/Linux server using the SNMP protocol; MySQL DB: used to monitor …Tutorial: how to automate your Centreon monitoring with SaltToday, 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 …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 …
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