Centreon Features

From network to applications and from legacy to state-of-the-art, the breadth and width of Centreon monitoring scope has got you covered. Centreon monitors the 700+ type of components that make modern IT and covers all domains: Cloud, Virtualization, Microservices, Databases, Middleware, Systems, Storage, Security, Network, Hardware, IoT, ITOM services.

Centreon agentless SNMP active monitoring makes implementation a breeze, but we know the world is diverse: you may use agents if required, we connect to cloud services or to any modern equipment through APIs, we catch SNMP Traps, execute scripts remotely and support a variety of other data collection methods when needed.

Don’t lose time figuring out which indicators are relevant or which threshold should be set amongst dozens of parameters that can be monitored on a given component.

Centreon comes with over 3,000 configuration templates that automatically select the right protocol or monitoring method for each infrastructure component, from hardware to applications, select which data should be collected, set the right monitoring thresholds, choose the proper graph display settings…

Monitoring should be that easy: we packaged everything you need for 1-click setup into a set of 700+ monitoring connectors.

Each connector includes a complete set of configuration templates and auto-discovery rules, along with some guidance for a smooth execution. Easy-to-download right from the Centreon user interface, we constantly update them, working closely with our user community to benefit from their expert knowledge of all IT technologies intricacies.

Let the Centreon Auto-Discovery engine keep track of daily changes in your infrastructure while complementing your IT Automation tools.

The API-centric Centreon platform makes it easy for IT Automation tools to simultaneously deploy new IT assets while making sure they’re monitored. Automatic Discovery goes one step further, connecting to servers, Wi-Fi Controllers, Cloud Monitoring platforms, Software-Defined Network infrastructure to detect network interface and disk volumes, Wi-Fi Access Points, dynamic cloud and network assets… keeping your monitoring up to date with the most dynamic environment.

Machine-Learning algorithms can detect anomalies that would otherwise go unnoticed.

The Anomaly Detection feature leverages Artificial Intelligence to automatically learn patterns from monitored indicators, and to alert when indicators experience abnormal behaviors, outside their typical pattern. The Centreon platform implements a unique Cloud-Augmented architecture that offloads to the Cloud anomaly-detection machine learning algorithms, avoiding computing-intensive operations on the on-premise monitoring servers.

We acknowledge some have invested time and effort in the past to develop Nagios® checks to monitor their bespoke infrastructure and applications. These are fully compatible, providing a seamless upgrade path to the much robust and feature-rich Centreon platform.

Measure the Performance of Services by Modeling IT Service Maps for each business-critical IT workflow.

Monitor IT services as a composite by grouping all the underlying infrastructure components, identifying their logical relationship and mapping dependencies to identify causality. Facilitate root-cause analysis, keep track of Service Level Agreements, report on IT Services MTTR or MTBF.

Share the complete view of IT Performance with both IT Operations teams and Business Owners.

Let them easily navigate between multiple types of dedicated customizable views designed to give each one the tools and level of details they need, fostering collaboration around a single source of truth.

Start with the high-level picture and inform all stakeholders about how IT is performing in relation to their business concerns.

Design your own clear and concise real-time cockpit views, complete with contextual business insights and customer experience performance data, and share them from C-level management to end-users on wall-mounted flat screens or intranet pages.

A picture is worth a thousand words: create easy-to-read graphical representations of your network or application architecture.

Drill-down from a high-level architecture view to more detailed infrastructure diagrams, all the way down to the individual equipment that is experiencing a problem.

See what happens where it happens with interactive geographical maps of your business operations.

Focus on where the value creation actually takes place to ensure smooth customer experiences and high productivity everywhere your business operates.

Get the best of both worlds: the peace of mind of a commercial product and the flexibility of an Open Source framework.

The Centreon platform builds upon our flagship Open Source IT Monitoring project used by 250 000+ IT Professionals all over the world. The flexibility of this framework is the foundation of your Centreon platform. Add the ingenuity of its user community and you get unlimited futureproofness all packaged into a fully supported and maintained commercial product.

Adapt to the scale of your Business Operations with no fear of ever outgrowing your monitoring platform.

Start small if needed and add monitoring capacity every time the scope of your monitoring operations grows.

Add remote monitoring capacity where it makes sense to adapt to vast and complex network architecture.

Monitoring worldwide operations from a central location has never been easier with Centreon, whatever network delays or firewall barriers you may come across. Add Remote Servers to the mix to share the load with local operations teams, increasing agility and autonomy.

Precisely fine-tune the access rights to Centreon based on your current Active Directory or equivalent role-based directory.

Give the whole IT Operations team, and beyond, access to Centreon. Keep it under control and create Access Control Groups that exactly define the boundaries of information sharing and the scope of operations enablement.