Centreon offers a robust IT infrastructure monitoring platform, featuring user-friendly dashboards and real-time monitoring. It excels in scalability and integration, making it suitable for monitoring diverse network environments.

| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Centreon | 1.5% |
| Zabbix | 4.7% |
| Datadog | 3.6% |
| Other | 90.2% |
| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 10 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 5 |
| Large Enterprise | 12 |
| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 253 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 138 |
| Large Enterprise | 233 |
Centreon stands out with its unified monitoring capabilities, providing businesses with user-friendly dashboards and extensive plugins for customization. Its scalability ensures companies can expand monitoring tasks without incurring additional costs. Integration capabilities allow seamless interaction with ticketing systems and automation tools. Centreon offers customizable reporting and effectively manages downtimes, providing real-time feedback and proactive maintenance through Business Activity and Anomaly Detection features. Despite its strengths, users find areas for improvement including downtime scheduling, API functionalities, UI enhancements, end-to-end monitoring, and documentation. Businesses are increasingly demanding better automation, network discovery, cloud monitoring, and notification options.
What are Centreon's standout features?Centreon is implemented across industries to monitor IT infrastructures, including networks, servers, and applications. Companies leverage it to track server performance, manage network devices, and receive timely alerts on device status. Its ability to integrate with ticketing systems and automation tools streamlines operations, enhancing global IT infrastructure monitoring and customer service management with real-time feedback and issue resolution.
Airbus, Bollore, BT, Canal Plus, Kuehne Nagel, Limagrain, LVMH, Oberthur Technologies, Orange, Darty, Addax Petroleum, Plastic Omnium, Auchan, Valeo, Saint Gobin, Clarins, Hugo Boss, JC Decaux, French Government (Defense, Justice, Environment, Agriculture), OptiComm, Thales, Zeiss.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A. | 4.0 | I primarily use Centreon for network and server monitoring, valuing its poller features. Automation improvements are needed as some tasks are manual. Previously, I used Zabbix but switched due to a job offer; both have similar support. |
| System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | I use Centreon primarily for server monitoring, benefiting from its user-friendly interface and easy integration. While it excels at this, it lacks web application monitoring. Switching from Icinga saved time and costs, though enhancing web app capabilities would improve it further. |
| Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees | 3.5 | We use Centreon to monitor LAN and WAN devices across subsidiaries on a single platform, saving time and costs. However, issues with downtime settings, alert reliability, and database problems prompt us to consider replacing it with Dynatrace. |
| Technical Services Manager at ATS | 4.0 | As a software solutions provider, we use Centreon to monitor client systems, appreciating features like preventative maintenance and cost-efficiency. The user-friendly dashboard aids in reducing resolution time, though there's room for AI-based security improvements. |
| Express Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees | 4.5 | I use Centreon for monitoring and reporting, finding its features like Business Activity and Anomaly Detection valuable. It's scalable, and support is excellent. However, its network discovery feature needs improvement compared to SolarWinds, my previous solution. |
| Network engineer at DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE DES IMPÔTS - DGI | 3.0 | I use Centreon in my company for monitoring infrastructure due to its free plug-ins. However, it lacks timely notifications via SMS, WhatsApp, or Telegram, relying only on email, which is ineffective if staff are away from their desks. |
| Network Engineer at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees | 3.5 | I use Centreon as a client application for network infrastructure monitoring to quickly fix issues. While it offers valuable monitoring features, it lacks backup automation and automatic detection, capabilities that Prometheus provides, simplifying tasks for network engineers. |
| IT Analyst at MAGNA SISTEMASMAGNA | 4.0 | We are a telecom group using Centreon to monitor our services and have seen a return on investment over four years. Centreon's most valuable feature is Opsgenie, but the reporting and integration with WhatsApp need improvement and support in Portuguese would be beneficial. |
| Engineering Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees | 4.5 | We use Centreon for proactive server and network monitoring. Its flexible, customizable dashboards and custom metrics provide invaluable visibility and detailed reports, greatly improving our IT operations and aligning with business goals. I highly recommend it. |
| Network Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | I value Centreon's deep configurability, user-friendly interface, stability, and scalability. It has good support, but documentation needs improvement, and reports are time-consuming. Licensing is expensive and inflexible for larger organizations. |

Neutral
We are using Centreon for monitoring devices, both LAN and WAN devices. There are subsidiaries for my company, so if any devices go down or there are any service alerts, we receive alerts through Centreon.
Centreon allows us to monitor all of our devices on one platform. We are currently monitoring seven companies' LAN and WAN devices, which is very good because there is no need to monitor multiple platforms. We can just see everything on one platform. It also provides the number of hosts and services that are up or down. We can set downtime for maintenance activities or power outages so that no alerts will be shown during those periods.
I have certain concerns with Centreon, such as being unable to set downtime for multiple devices at once due to the limitation of adding only 50 devices in a single go. Increasing this limit would help. Furthermore, reliability is sometimes an issue. Centreon has a developer mode and production mode, but sometimes alerts don't come through in production mode. Additionally, some alerts are not genuine, especially for network reachability.
We have been working with Centreon for one year.
There are times when we face issues with Centreon being in development mode. Sometimes we do not receive alerts, causing business impact, and users ask why no alerts were received. I would rate its stability at seven out of ten.
Although Centreon is generally effective, there are times when we face issues as it is still in development mode, and there are periods of outages. Occasionally, for several hours, we do not receive any alerts, causing a business impact.
Our developer team raises service tickets for Centreon-related issues. If the issue is beyond their control, they contact the Centreon vendor's technical support for resolution. We do not have direct access to Centreon's technical support.
Neutral
We are working on implementing Dynatrace to replace Centreon, but it is not in production yet. Once implemented, Dynatrace will allow us to select devices and check connections and IP addresses, whereas Centreon sometimes has database and alert issues.
I joined the company when Centreon was already in use. I was informed that it has been used since the company started in India and new devices are added for monitoring through the development team.
Our onsite team raises a request task to add new devices into Centreon, and our development team handles it.
Centreon provides timesaving and costsaving benefits as it lets us manage multiple devices on a single platform. Alerts are quick, which allows timely monitoring.
We are considering Dynatrace to replace Centreon.
I would recommend Centreon with some improvements needed, as sometimes database issues occur with high device usage. Overall, it's quite good. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate it seven.

We're a software solutions provider using Centreon to monitor a client's database, application, and web servers. The system sends an email alert when something goes wrong.
Currently, we only have one customer using Centreon. Our client is a global automobile manufacturer headquartered in Europe. Our customer was already using Centreon when we started working with them. They approached us about upgrading and perfecting their system. We've also pitched this solution to another car manufacturer based in Germany.
Centreon helps us monitor our client's systems in real-time using fewer people. Our client is happy with the product because it helps them cut costs. Everything is automatic. Centreon helps measure service performance by modeling IT service maps for critical IT workflows.
The primary benefit is prevention. Centreon helps us identify and address issues before the system goes down. It reduces related costs by about a third.
Centreon's most valuable features are preventative maintenance and cost-efficiency. Everything is monitored, and we get a log before the system fails. We have an opportunity to fix the issue and avoid downtime.
The dashboard is user-friendly, and the solution provides good reporting and visibility. The layout is straightforward. You can click on the drop-down list to select the server you want. The anomaly detection feature helped us reduce our average resolution time by 30 minutes to an hour.
I think Centreon's security could be improved by leveraging AI. That's where things are heading in the industry.
We have used Centreon for four years.
I rate Centreon eight out of 10 for stability.
I rate Centreon eight out of 10. The scalability is high enough to monitor our client's infrastructure.
The deployment was straightforward. It wasn't too complex. We could finish setting up Centreon in less than a day. The implementation strategy depends on the user requirements, context, and scope.
We connect the solution to the server and configure it to monitor the client's environment. It doesn't take many people to deploy Centreon. We downloaded it off the official web page and asked our IT department to set up a VM. The process involved two or three people, including an application engineer and an IT technician.
Centreon is a free open-source platform, but customers who need more advanced functionality can pay for premium scripts and plugins.
I rate Centreon eight out of 10. Centreon is an open-source platform. That's one advantage. You can size this up as needed and add some advanced functionality with plugins. We typically advise a customer to set up a new environment, install Centreon, then decommission their legacy monitoring system.
Centreon is generally stable overall, but you might have issues if it's configured improperly or you have the wrong firewall setting. Problems with your server or corrupted files on the system might also cause it not to function well.
We use Centreon to monitor the server and network devices. It also provides reporting that informs our capacity planning with regard to storage on the server disk. We use it on-premises. We have a central server and around 14 monitoring pollers on the remote side that report to the main server.
I'm the monitoring administrator, so I set up some dashboards for my colleagues and users in the IT department that are customized to provide the information they want to see. They want to look at network devices and create a map of the equipment that allows them to see usage and if something has broken down.
Centreon's ability to model IT service maps has been crucial for us. It enables us to get a quick look at our business needs. Centreon can measure the service performance to show if everything is working well.
The reporting and monitoring features are the most valuable. The monitoring is easy to set up, and the reports are filled with helpful information. You can quickly find and fix the problem when there is an incident.
We use out-of-the-box reports instead of customizing them. When we deploy something, it comes with some reporting templates, so we just use those. We use the existing reporting template to get information about the monitoring device. It's easy to apply the template to our reports. We can do it in two to five minutes.
Another feature we use is Business Activity, which provides us with an end-user perspective when a service is down or isn't working correctly. This is helpful when monitoring the KPIs. When we see a device or server that isn't working, we find the root cause.
We also use Plugin Packs to monitor most of our equipment because it's simple to deploy a monitoring template. If I want to monitor a device, I install the Plugin Pack and the required package. If the Plugin Pack doesn't give me the information I want, I can write a plugin to monitor the device. We do this for a few instruments.
Anomaly Detection is another handy feature that we use to discover some issues. I estimate that using Anomaly Detection has cut our resolution time in half.
Centreon introduced network discovery in the most recent update. However, it doesn't work well. Our previous monitoring tool could discover networking equipment on the network and identify the relationships between the devices.
I have been using Centreon for about three years now.
Centreon is scalable. We started with a central server and four remote pollers and continued adding some pollers. We can add or remove pollers without problems. Currently, we have around 14 pollers, and they all work well. When I want to add or remove a poller, I don't need to change the configuration on the central server or resize the server. We have around 200 users, and we are monitoring around 5,000 devices.
I rate Centreon's support nine out of 10. They respond quickly when we have issues. Someone is always available. If I open a ticket, I usually get a response in 10 or 15 minutes.
Positive
We previously used SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor. When we compared the two solutions, we found that Centreon had stronger reporting features and a customizable dashboard. Centreon was also more affordable. SolarWinds' network discovery feature is better, but I think Centreon can improve this aspect.
Setting up Centreon isn't complex. All the documentation is clear and easy to follow. The total deployment time depends on the size of your deployment. It might take only two or three hours if it's just one monitoring server. You only need to download the application and install it on your network. If you want to start from scratch, setting up the environment might take four hours.
It can take around five to 10 days to deploy for a complex deployment. It might take that long if you need to set up some monitoring on the remote side and deploy a reporting server or other components,
A five-person in-house team deployed the solution with help from Centreon. Their team helped us achieve our goals.
I don't have a lot of information about the price. A different team handles procurement. However, I know the price is based on the number of devices monitored, and you get a discount for a larger number.
I rate Centreon nine out of 10. This product provides comprehensive reporting for our top management. When my manager asks for a report, it's easy for me to generate one based on the reporting template. We can also set up some level agreements on some services, and from the reports, we can check to see if maintaining this level of equipment will work.

I use the solution in my company for our supervision purposes. In my company, we supervise all of the infrastructure with the tool. It is a monitoring tool.
The most valuable feature of the solution is that most of its plug-ins are free.
The issue my company has with the tool stems from the fact that it didn't give an on-time response to us. The product collects the information, but it fails to send them via SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram. The solution can be used if you want to get email notifications, which is not good for our company because if someone is not in front of their desktop, you can't receive information about an equipment or LAN that is down.
I have been using Centreon for twelve or thirteen years. I am just a user of the tool.
The tool is not stable, and it may be because we are not using its latest version. Sometimes, there are breakdowns in the tool.
Around seven or eight people use the tool.
I have provided technical support for the solution to deal with the product issues. Sometimes, the solution's technical support says that they will post some updates and make corrections in the stability area of the program. Sometimes, the corrections in the stability area made by the tool's support team do work, and at times, it doesn't work. I rate the technical support a five out of ten.
Neutral
The product's initial setup phase is really easy, even for a beginner.
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.
The tool is cheaply priced.
Before people try to use Centreon, I suggest using Zabbix or SolarWinds. One should try to use Zabbix first and SolarWinds in the second position. If you use Zabbix or SolarWinds and you find that they are not okay with you, then you can use Centreon.
The tool does not meet our company's needs. Even though the tool can collect the information, its metrics are not really easy to be explored or used.
I rate the tool a six out of ten.
Centreon is a client application. We use the solution to monitor network infrastructure. In case of an incident, We can fix the issue.
Centreon makes me reactive. It allows the use of signal application over monitoring infrastructure to use signal.
The solution allows us to study more analysis to reduce.
Centreon offers infrastructure monitoring.
Prometheus provides the ability to automate the backup of my infrastructure. This automatic backup capability allows me to integrate it into GitLab for versioning, among other functionalities. Thus, it serves as an additional application that simplifies the work of network engineers.
The solution could have backup automation. It can automatically detect all the applications and infrastructure components, including dynamic protocols, which can be highly beneficial. Automatic detection enables proactive measures, such as triggering remediation processes via API as soon as alerts occur.
I have been using Centreon for one year.
We are trying to study proactive management monitoring because of the working cloud infrastructure. Our team is trying to get a volume of remaining work, and these new proactive tools can benefit us.
The solution is 80% stable.
Infrastructure scalability is smooth because it doesn't break down or have downtime.
The solution is 80% scalable.
The product is quite expensive.
If something renders infrastructure, it enables reacting and accessing meetings as necessary. It provides quick response, typically within a minute or less. The alerts provided are apparent, facilitating the identification of root causes for any issues. Moreover, Centreon offers a lot of plugins. Locating these plugins is straightforward, which eliminates the need for additional tools.
I recommend Centreon because it is user-friendly.
Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Centreon's dashboard is good. Centreon's dashboard provides a single view of all our customers. When there is a problem, Centreon notifies us and works with us to resolve it quickly.
Centreo's dashboards help to improve our visibility and ability to proactively ensure the right data is available at the right time which is important.
We use Centreon's plugin packs to communicate with our telecom locations in Brazil when the host does not have Centreon integrated.
Centreon's ready-to-use connectors and integrations are essential because they provide a comprehensive overview of our organization, which allows us to quickly resolve client issues.
Centreon helps me organize our hosts by stage and monitor our clients.
Centreon is the best for helping monitor our IT infrastructure from cloud to edge and providing holistic visibility.
Centreon helps us align our IT operations with business objectives by identifying problems and resolving them quickly and permanently.
Centreon helps us measure service performance by modeling IT service maps for business-critical IT workflows and metrics. This allows us to see the hierarchy and discover problems. Centreon is a valuable and important tool for addressing these issues.
Centreon helps to consolidate all alerts, KPIs, and business maps as well as manage metrics across domains. We can seamlessly integrate with the client's network.
The reporting has room for improvement. The reports could be improved by providing more data and more detailed charts.
I would like Centreon to offer support in Portuguese.
Centreon should have better integration with WhatsApp.
I have been using Centreon for four years.
We use Centreon for every stage in Brazil and the solution is stable.
The scalability is acceptable, but there is room for improvement.
We do not have local support in Brazil, which is challenging due to the language barrier.
Neutral
The initial setup is complicated because consolidating and configuring the database is a complex process.
We have seen a return on investment and that is why our organization has been using Centreon for over four years.
I give Centreon an eight out of ten.
I recommend Centreon because it is a good solution that configures well.
We use it for standard monitoring of 300 to 400 devices, the usual Windows and Linux servers and network equipment. We are monitoring the disk usage and the network ports.
The teams within our NOC get proactive reports which are quite detailed. That saves them a lot of time on having to research or troubleshoot to find an issue. Thanks to Centreon, they are guided to what needs to be fixed.
And it's an invaluable tool for helping to drive business performance excellence and aligning IT operations with business objectives. It's been helping us to engage in smarter reviews of what's happening within our network. We get alerts popping up from time to time, and we can use them to implement permanent fixes or workarounds.
Another benefit is that Centreon has helped measure service performance by modeling IT service maps for business-critical IT workflows. We actually give detailed reports to our customers and they're all based on Centreon's reporting. That ability is very important, a top priority.
The best features that we've come across enable us to create our own monitored instances. For example, we have a SQL script that is being run by Centreon, and it gives us a specific metric on the dashboard that we utilize for monitoring the performance of a third party. We integrate with third-party companies or, in this case, government institutions, and they do not give us any guarantee of the service, and they also don't give us the ability to monitor the service. However, from our side, we can monitor the throughputs with the SQL script that we have running with Centreon.
In addition, the flexibility, customizability, and analytics of Centreon's dashboards are all very good. The dashboards help us see the whole network map, and that is quite valuable for us. In addition, the dashboards have helped to improve our visibility and ability to proactively ensure the right data is available at the right time. Our service desk staff spends most of their time on the dashboards, and they use the proactive monitoring to log service requests to the L2 and L3 support. They've been invaluable in that sense.
The flexibility has given us the ability to add in our own monitoring metrics and that has been quite interesting and very useful for us as well.
We've been using Centreon for close to two years.
We haven't had any stability issues with the solution since we started using it.
The scalability is also good, not that we've needed to do much so far.
We don't yet use the anomaly detection to help alert on unusual or dysfunctional behavior, but that is a feature we want to implement.
We haven't needed to use their tech support so far.
A different team within our organization was involved in the setup, but as I understand it, the guy from Centreon was quite familiar with it, so it was quite easy.
The deployment of Centreon took about two months, but that was mostly due to user adoption by the service desk and NOC teams.
Initially, when we did the setup, we just threw all of our devices into Centreon, and at one stage it became quite bogged down in the sense that there was too much reporting or alerting. But it was quite easy to filter things and to streamline the reporting, enabling us to get exactly what we needed, including the proactive monitoring that we needed. The flexibility that Centreon has given us to do that kind of analysis and streamlining has been invaluable.
I would like to see improvement in the licensing model. You can purchase X number of licenses, up to 1,000 devices or 1,000 instances. Your next batch is 2,000. But what if you only need, say, 1,200? The model could be changed a little bit.
In a different company, I was dealing with SolarWinds, which was okay for what it did, but the licensing for SolarWinds was quite expensive in comparison. In terms of navigating the licensing models, Centreon and SolarWinds are basically the same.
The other option being looked at was SolarWinds. With Centreon, there's the licensed package, but it's also an open-source platform, and that was the driving force behind the decision to go with it.
My advice would be to go ahead with Centreon. Don't waste time, go ahead.
There are still a lot of features that we don't yet use that we are looking into. But overall, so far, it's been very good.
We have multiple instances with Centreon: a central, remote, MBI, report server, and two pollers. We also have Centreon MAP. All the pollers are pulling all the endpoints, sending information to the central and remote instances. If we need to produce some reports to connect, then we connect directly to the report server. If we need to produce MAPs, then we connect to the MAP server.
We monitor bandwidths of all the links inside the data center as well as outside Internet links and MPLS links to have the connectivity, status, and bandwidth consumption. We have defined the threshold on these links to understand if they are being overused or not. This is the main feature.
We use the same for network devices to see basic information, like a device's uptime to know if it is up or down. It is also the same for all the ports and environment probes on the hardware.
For the server, we configure specific probes to check some specific services. For example, the server provides a service through a Docker container, then we can configure a specific query to check the Docker container stages. Or, if we need to have the temperature of the air conditioning system, then we configure a specific query to ask for it. So, there is basic information coming from the network devices related to hardware. There is also some specific monitoring about services that we are using in terms of the business or infrastructure on specific devices.
We have 500 hosts and 4,000 services.
The most valuable feature is that we can manually configure everything we need. After it comes inside the interface of Centreon, you can display it. Because the interface is quite user-friendly, you can manually configure the configuration very deeply, which is very pleasant and useful because you can monitor and see everything on your service list, dashboard, or MAP. The most useful feature for me is that you can create your own plugin and monitoring query.
The solution’s customizable reports and dashboards for allowing management to see performance metrics is very well done. However, it is very time-consuming. I am pretty sure we can create a very beautiful report, but I don't really have time to focus on it now. I wasn't using this feature at the start. Now that we got it, I haven't had time to work on it since it is a paid solution that is quite expensive. We also need to dedicate human resources to work on it, because it is not so simple or quick to configure.
I would like them to improve their documentation. When I faced some issues, I was looking for more documentation on the Internet. There is official documentation on Centreon's website, which sometimes is useful. Sometimes it is not very useful, as you cannot find the information or enough examples of configuration. The answer for me was to contact the support, who helped me, but I was not able to find all the information by myself on Centreon's website. A Centreon community or blog would be helpful.
I have been using this solution for eight years: four years at my first company, three years at my second company, and a year at this company.
It is very stable. In fact, I thought it has improved a lot over eight years. When I started working on the network, we had to restart Centreon Engine quite often. There were some bugs, mistakes, or errors in the configuration. Therefore, we needed to restart Centreon Engine and some other services inside the server. Since I have been at my current company, we have not done that. We have 4,000 services that we monitor, and it is very stable now.
It is quite a good tool. It is scalable in the sense that we can use it for more hosts and services that we want to monitor. If we monitor different kinds of devices, we can still find plugins and plugin packs directly from Centreon's support and website. They are still developing new plugins and updating them. So, it adapts to your infrastructure. They have also developed some patches. So, it has good scalability.
The support was great. They answered me very quickly for our two first concerns. For the last one, it was quite long. However, after one escalation, we did solve the problem after a day. I am pretty satisfied with them.
They could talk in English with my colleague as well as French for me, as I am French. The people, with whom I talked, were very skillful. So, I was impressed. They could easily help me.
Positive
I was using Splunk at my previous company. Splunk is much more expensive, but it has some capabilities in terms of getting logs. On Centreon, you only get SNMP metrics. However, if you want to get syslogs with a monitoring solution, you can use Splunk, a regexp query, and a specific SQL query to construct a proper output. For this, Centreon is not helpful, but Splunk is.
I was not involved with the initial setup at my current company.
Centreon has helped reduce our mean time to resolution. Because we have well-configured monitoring, we can decrease the time to answer any problem. We are informed quite quickly about an issue, so we can say, "Yes." Compared to no monitoring and waiting for a user complaint, it can save us 30 minutes a month between the first user's complaint and the monitoring alert.
We buy the Centreon solution and licenses for many projects and monitoring hosts.
It is perfect and very cheap if you are a little company or startup. After that, it is quite expensive for a big company.
It is a business choice from Centreon to fix the price, so a big company can afford this license or policy. What I am facing right now is that we are short licenses, and they only sell packages of 500 hosts, which is quite a lot. We have a 500 limit for now, and we want to have a quotation for 100 or 200 more. They told us, "No, the next step is only 1,000." So, they could maybe try to sell a smaller package of licenses.
I tried a few other solutions in terms of monitoring, e.g., PRTG, LibreNMS, Nagios and Cacti. All these solutions, except LibreNMS, are very poor in terms of design. The user experience in Centreon is much better. However, in the end, you just configure some SNMP work on the solution to get your answer. The difference with Centreon is that you can easily define, in the configuration, to have the templates for each host, services, notification, etc. So, Centreon is much better than all these other solutions.
All the SNMP data is available on the devices. If you know what you want to monitor, you can do it with or without Centreon. So, it does not increase the accuracy. It provides a very user-friendly way to display it, but it's not more accurate. To be more accurate, we did use another tool, Splunk, which provides some artificial intelligence or behavioral monitoring.
In terms of pure SNMP metrics monitoring, Centreon is very good. However, if you want to diversify your monitoring with other inputs than SNMP, e.g., syslogs. Other tools can be very useful, like Splunk or ELK, for diversification.
Take time to configure it well, as it is very useful. Don't leave it until later. It should be implemented at the start, not after all the infrastructure is in place and in production. It should be done from the beginning, before the application server.
Get the vendor training to understand as much as possible about the solution. While it is quite user-friendly, it is not so easy to understand how the plugins and plugin packs work.
Invest time at the beginning, as it will save you time later. This will help you a lot. So, my advice is to start as soon as possible to work with a monitoring solution when you have an infrastructure, especially on Centreon.
I would rate Centreon as eight out of 10 because I really like it.