Centreon

Centreon is a comprehensive IT infrastructure and application monitoring platform that provides unified visibility across hybrid cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Paris, France, Centreon has grown to serve over 120,000 organizations worldwide, monitoring more than 3 million IT resources daily. The platform offers auto-discovery capabilities that automatically detect and map network devices, servers, applications, containers, cloud services, and APIs, building a real-time topology map of the entire IT estate. Centreon's architecture is based on a centralized management server with distributed pollers (remote monitoring probes) that can be deployed across multiple sites and regions for resilient, scalable monitoring. The platform supports over 700 built-in monitoring connectors (formerly called plugins) for technologies including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, Cisco networking, F5 load balancers, Palo Alto firewalls, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SAP, Apache, Nginx, and IIS. Key features include availability and performance monitoring with customizable thresholds, capacity planning with predictive analytics, root cause analysis through dependency mapping, SLA tracking with customizable business hour definitions, distributed monitoring with high-availability poller pairs, automated remediation through webhook-triggered actions, and compliance reporting for frameworks like GDPR, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Centreon offers three editions: Centreon Open Source (free, GPLv2), Centreon IT Edition (for SMEs), and Centreon Business Edition (with AIOps capabilities including anomaly detection, event correlation, and predictive alerting). The platform integrates with ITSM tools including ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, BMC Remedy, and Zendesk via native connectors.