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Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – December 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new connectors, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools.  The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Software Releases
Monitoring Connector Update – November 2024

Centreon’s monitoring connector catalog keeps being enhanced to offer you seamless visibility over your full IT environment. This month of November 2024, we have a few enhancements to report. You can also read the related ...

Software Releases
Centreon announces its latest software release: Centreon 24.10

We’re excited to share the news about the release of Centreon version 24.10, packed with new improvements and features. As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering a cutting-edge IT & OT monitoring platform, this ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – October 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new connectors, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools.  The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Best Practices
Monitor anything, anywhere: achieve the triple aim of operational excellence

In 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 ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – September 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new connectors, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools.  The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – August 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new connectors, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools.  The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Best Practices
Unlock the Power of IT and OT Convergence with Centreon

In 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 ...

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Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – July 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new connectors, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools.  The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Best Practices
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, ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – June 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new connectors, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools.  The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Software Releases
New Centreon Release Cadence and Version Lifecycle

Starting in October 2024, Centreon is updating the Release Cadence and Version Lifecycle of its Self-Hosted Centreon IT Monitoring software platform. All Centreon users should read this blog post to understand how this may impact ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – May 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new connectors, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – April 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new connectors, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – March 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – February 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools.  The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – January 2024

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools.  The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – December 2023

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with always more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer ...

Best Practices
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 ...

Software Releases
Centreon 23.10: Discover the Latest Release

Centreon’s IT monitoring platform is diverse in its offerings, whether it is the open source project, one of our commercial editions, or the choice between self-hosted deployment or our SaaS option. As we get ready ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – October 2023

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer enhancements ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connectors – September 2023

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer enhancements ...

Best Practices
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 ...

Best Practices
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 ...

Software Releases
Summer 2023’s New Monitoring Connectors

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer enhancements ...

Best Practices
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 ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connector Releases – June 2023

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer enhancements ...

Press Release
Centreon unveils its latest monitoring innovations at AWS Summit Madrid and Milan

Paris, June 19, 2023 – Centreon, a leader in digital performance monitoring, announces its participation at the AWS Summit in Madrid and Milan, scheduled for June 15 and June 22 respectively. The software company is ...

Best Practices
Telecommuting: The Conditions for Maximum Productivity

Maintaining the productivity of telecommuting employees is a major challenge. While this new way of working has helped maintain business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are now seeking ways to retain a proven model ...

Best Practices
ITIM and DEM: a Power Couple for Digital Performance & Observability

Together we are stronger, goes the popular saying, and it’s true of the powerful association between ITIM and DEM. This blog post looks at the added value to digital performance and business observability brought by ...

Best Practices
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 ...

Software Releases
New Monitoring Connector Releases – May 2023

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer enhancements ...

Press Release
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
New Monitoring Connector Releases – April 2023

Every month, Centreon extends its monitoring connector catalog and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer enhancements ...

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 ...

Software Releases
New Connector Releases – March 2023

Every month, Centreon extends its connector catalog (a.k.a. monitoring packs or Plugin Packs) and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability ...

Best Practices
Why you need a hybrid IT monitoring solution

Hybrid 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 ...

Best Practices
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 ...

Best Practices
Integrating Network Assurance and IT Infrastructure Monitoring for stronger networks

It’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 ...

Software Releases
New Connector Releases – January 2023

Every month, Centreon extends its connector catalog (a.k.a. monitoring packs or Plugin Packs) and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability ...

Best Practices
ITOps 2023 Trends: Emphasis on Capacity Building

What’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 ...

Best Practices
IT monitoring for 2023: Making ITOps reach their most ambitious new year resolutions

We’re jumping into 2023 full of hope, which for ITOps means less IT downtime, more flexibility and productivity, a deeper UX understanding, an observable business, and, of course, sustainable operations. Wishful thinking? No! This is ...

Software Releases
New Connector Releases – December 2022

Every month, Centreon extends its connector catalog (a.k.a. monitoring packs or Plugin Packs) and implements new ones, allowing you to connect your IT monitoring with more ITOps tools. The result: increased visibility and business observability ...

Best Practices
Planning for Sustainable and Cost-effective IT Infrastructure

Which 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 ...

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 ...

User Stories
Connectivity pioneer RNP uses Centreon to provide high availability, secure networking to Brazil’s academic and research institutions

“With Centreon, we can handle and relate disconnected events, gaining a better understanding of the context and root cause of problems in the IT environment. This is done by leveraging application and system log data. ...

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 ...

Best Practices
Energy Saving Tips for ITOps

ITOps 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 ...

Best Practices
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 ...

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 ...

Software Releases
New software release: Centreon 21.04

Artificial Intelligence technologies and critical improvements in Alert Management and Auto-Discovery make monitoring Cloud-to-Edge infrastructure more efficient than ever. Years after years, whatever the pandemic situation and its implied remote working realities, we stick to ...

Best Practices
Post-COVID-19 Recovery: Managing Innovation & Cost Optimization from the Back-End Up

This blog looks at the post-COVID business rebuilding efforts from the lens of digital performance and ITOps. No industry or business was left untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic. The very DNA of business changed as ...

Best Practices
Automation to the rescue: Monitoring all IT domains instantly

We were recently discussing the advantage of instant IT monitoring through ready to use integration packages, or connectors. Here’s a list of the range of connector types you can use to monitor your full IT ...

Software Releases
Checklist: What to Look for in a Free IT Infrastructure Monitoring Trial Version

The time has come to evolve your IT infrastructure monitoring capabilities, or you need to replace aging solutions. Your Google search leads you to a few free trial offers from some popular commercial editions. It’s ...

Software Releases
Introducing Free Forever IT Monitoring for 100 Hosts or Less

What’s the best way to monitor 100 IT assets or less without any upfront investment or time consuming coding, for a $0 yearly subscription, year after year? You’ve got it, it’s through the Centreon IT ...

Best Practices
4 simple rules to implement Good Monitoring

What’s critical for small ITOM teams is the need to be operational with the shortest time-to-monitoring (TTM) possible. The solution their business-savvy IT managers will want to choose has to be easily accessible and ready ...

Tutorials
Monitor your VMware infrastructure

The 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. ...

Software Releases
5 obvious reasons for Centreon IMP

Do you want to have round-the-clock monitored IT information and boost your Time-to-monitoring? Centreon IMP is for you! Regardless your business sector, the size of your IT staff or resources, with Centreon IMP you will be ...

Software Releases
Easy access to IT monitoring with Centreon IMP

Just because you have a smaller ITOM team or budget doesn’t mean you should be deprived of reliable and professional IT monitoring! With Centreon IMP, tracking IT availability and performance becomes easily accessible and fast ...

Software Releases
Ready-to-use monitoring solution: Centreon IMP

Today, every IT department, even the smallests, need to know & manage their IT service availability and performance for operations & business continuity. Losses from IT service disruptions and unplanned downtime, although smaller in figures, ...

Best Practices
Improve your Time-To-Monitoring with Centreon Plugin Packs

Centreon, 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 ...

Software Releases
Boost your operational uptime thanks to Centreon IMP

According to an IDC survey of 2014, 40% of SMB IT managers simultaneously manage physical, virtual and cloud-based operations. Small or not, they have to deal with a diversity of IT assets, and integrating good ...

Software Releases
The Power of Knowing to Ensure Business Continuity

Business continuity is defined as “the capability of an organization to continue delivery of products or services at acceptable pre-defined levels following a disruptive incident” (source: ISO 22301:2012, Business Continuity Institute). This requires IT leaders ...

Software Releases
Centreon IMP in 10 key points

Losses from IT service disruptions and unplanned downtime, although smaller in figures, can be more crippling for SMBs/SMEs than for large enterprise. Indeed, data recovery can take up to 9 hours and involve 40% productivity ...

Software Releases
From plugins to Plugin Packs to improve your Time-To-Monitoring

Centreon, 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 ...

Software Releases
New IT Monitoring Centreon solution: how Centreon IMP helps SMB IT Managers or administrators

It is not uncommon to find SMB IT managers simultaneously managing physical, virtual and cloud-based operations (40% of those surveyed by IDC in 2014). Small or not, they have to deal with a diversity of ...

Software Releases
New solution in Centreon Portfolio: Centreon IMP, THE Instant Monitoring Platform for small ITOM teams

Centreon is proud to officially announce the launch of its new monitoring solution for small ITOM teams and SMBs/SMEs At Centreon, we believe that it is critical to empower ITOM professionals with round-the-clock monitored IT ...