Centreon vs SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability comparison

Centreon and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Cloud Monitoring Software category. Centreon is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.3, while SolarWinds is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0. Centreon holds a 2.3% mindshare in CMS, compared to SolarWinds’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Centreon users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Centreon and SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Centreon vs. SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

8.1

Centreon enhances ROI through efficient monitoring, quick issue resolution, cost savings, and minimal impact during outages.

Sentiment score

4.5

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability cuts costs with unified monitoring, alerting, and downtime reduction, but some prefer Grafana.

Centreon provides timesaving and costsaving benefits as it lets us manage multiple devices on a single platform.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It significantly saves time by automating monitoring tasks and reduces costs as it requires fewer resources.

Aadinath Tikone

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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The primary return comes from its effectiveness, leading to significant cost savings, especially since we can create tenants and allow multiple countries to utilize the nodes through shared tools.

reviewer2779182

IT Network Coordinator (Northern Region) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It saves time by issuing alerts that notify engineers about problems or incidents.

Michael Savchenko

Business Developement Manager at I.ua

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.1

Centreon's customer service is responsive and knowledgeable, though availability limitations and support level improvements are needed.

Sentiment score

5.4

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability support is adequate, with varied response times and tailored needs in specific markets.

We do not have direct access to Centreon's technical support.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

If issues arise, like services appearing as down in Centreon, technical support helps check the polar-server communication.

Aadinath Tikone

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Technical support from Centreon responds within 24 hours and resolves issues quickly.

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

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the support is quick and meets service-level agreements

Michael Savchenko

Business Developement Manager at I.ua

I get an instant response and on-call support as well.

Irshad_Khan

Solutions Architect at Cognizant

The complexities and internal processes in approvals necessitate a more tailored support approach, ensuring that assistance is relevant and timely.

reviewer2779182

IT Network Coordinator (Northern Region) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.0

Centreon is valued for flexibility and scalability, though improvements in data management and alert scaling are recommended.

Sentiment score

6.6

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability offers seamless scalability and high performance, with users praising its flexibility and robust hybrid model.

Occasionally, for several hours, we do not receive any alerts, causing a business impact.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use other tools for adding and deploying configured devices, but direct access from Centreon would be beneficial.

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

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The product is very easy to scale.

Michael Savchenko

Business Developement Manager at I.ua

A single polling engine with enterprise supports up to 100 additional polling engines, monitoring up to 100,000 elements per instance.

reviewer2764029

Senior Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is great.

reviewer2779182

IT Network Coordinator (Northern Region) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

Centreon is stable and reliable, though stability may vary; support resolves issues swiftly, especially with the latest versions.

Sentiment score

6.3

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is generally stable, with rare downtimes mainly due to improper deployment and necessary upgrades.

Sometimes we do not receive alerts, causing business impact, and users ask why no alerts were received.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Centreon is a much more straightforward and stable tool compared to Icinga.

Aadinath Tikone

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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In my current environment, we have experienced instability likely due to the deployment not meeting required standards.

reviewer2779182

IT Network Coordinator (Northern Region) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have to put a lot of communication in place because if we are trying to take SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability down for upgrades, then obviously the entire observability or infrastructure monitoring is paused.

Kalyan Kothali

Associate Vice President at Wissen infotech

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Room For Improvement

Centreon users seek improved customization, monitoring, UI, documentation, integration, mobile features, auto-remediation, multilingual support, and notifications.

SolarWinds needs AI enhancement, smoother integration, better support, intuitive dashboard, expanded compatibility, and improved documentation and setup.

Enhancements are needed in identifying configuration issues, providing real-time alerts in case of issues, and improving the HTTP configuration tasks.

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

Reliability is sometimes an issue. Centreon has a developer mode and production mode, but sometimes alerts don't come through in production mode.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

While Centreon excels at server-level monitoring, it lacks the ability to track web app availability and latency, unlike Dynatrace, which is efficient in this area.

Aadinath Tikone

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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The solution could improve in areas such as CICD observability.

Michael Savchenko

Business Developement Manager at I.ua

The initial setup and configuration can also be complex for new users.

AshwaniSingh1

Quality Auditing Associate at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I think deeper integration into Kubernetes, serverless functions, and cloud-native tracing can be implemented as these matter to many organizations.

reviewer2764029

Senior Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Setup Cost

Centreon provides an open-source solution for SMEs but has a complex pricing model for enterprises needing premium features.

SolarWinds offers reasonable node-based pricing, but renewal changes and regional variations necessitate strategic negotiations for optimal investment.

Centreon's pricing is not very expensive.

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

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We approached SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability directly and the quotation that they gave was a very expensive one.

Kalyan Kothali

Associate Vice President at Wissen infotech

The pricing is mid-segment, which means it is neither cheap nor expensive compared to other products.

Michael Savchenko

Business Developement Manager at I.ua

The new pricing models lack clarity in communication, bundling services that we may not actually need, leading to unnecessary costs.

reviewer2779182

IT Network Coordinator (Northern Region) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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Valuable Features

Centreon offers unlimited monitoring, enhanced visualization, and customizable features for efficient oversight with extensive device compatibility and anomaly detection.

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability provides comprehensive monitoring, proactive insights, and rapid troubleshooting for efficient multi-location network management.

Monitoring is a fundamental pillar of technical support, and Centreon streamlines this process, reducing the need for extensive manual checks.

Aadinath Tikone

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Centreon's real-time monitoring, despite having some manual aspects, supports us in managing our operations effectively.

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

Centreon allows us to monitor all of our devices on one platform.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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It is easy to scale by increasing the count of observable objects, adding additional servers, and polling engines, which is crucial for enterprise-level projects.

Michael Savchenko

Business Developement Manager at I.ua

It has an alerting engine where I can define thresholds and configure custom alerts, which can also be integrated with ITSM or a ticketing system to auto-create tickets.

Irshad_Khan

Solutions Architect at Cognizant

Smart Alerts in SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability has been really helpful for our team. For instance, one day, a switch interface started hitting high utilization, which would have caused slowness in network traffic. SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability sent an alert immediately, so we could check the devices and fix the issue before users noticed any problem.

AshwaniSingh1

Quality Auditing Associate at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

Centreon

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

21st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (27th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (27th)

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Obs...

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

17th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Centreon is 2.3%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is 1.2%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability	1.2%
Centreon	2.3%
Other	96.5%

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Featured Reviews

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

Experience enhanced monitoring with real-time alerts and efficient support

I would like to see automation in the poller features, as currently, the poller is not automated. If we could automate the addition or removal of hosts in the poller, it would improve efficiency. Sometimes, Centreon does not show the status of services as updated, which should be addressed. Additionally, enhancements are needed in identifying configuration issues, providing real-time alerts in case of issues, and improving the HTTP configuration tasks, as Centreon does not currently display issues with HTTP links, requiring manual investigation.

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Kalyan Kothali

Associate Vice President at Wissen infotech

Unified dashboards have improved hybrid infrastructure monitoring and support daily operations

The dashboard and reporting can be improved. The way the dashboards are being configured and presented in SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability has certain challenges. The look and feel and ease of configuring are areas where we see difficulties. There are certain limitations where we are not able to select the range or live details. Specifically, I want to have a trend analysis on certain thresholds, but those are tricky and we are not able to do that. We are currently downloading that and then using Excel to represent it. Those kinds of features are missing as of now. AI features in SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability, we only started this in 2024. We are still stabilizing the environment. AI is the next thing, so we did not start looking into that yet. Even the dashboards that we are trying to build to understand the trend analysis in SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability show always the live information. What is the current state, how many monitors, how many are green, how many are amber, where we have warnings, what are at risk, is the live information that we could build from the dashboard. When trying to analyze the thresholds or how much increase we need to make, or what the trend is happening, getting into those details is difficult. Building those kind of reports is a tricky one. We struggle a lot in that area.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Centreon?

Centreon's pricing is not very expensive. Initially, I rated it seven, but corrected to five out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Centreon?

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 ...

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What is your primary use case for Centreon?

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 C...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability?

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is device-based. How many devices we want to bring on board determines the cost. Technically, we have built multiple clusters based on the regions that we want...

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability?

Regarding AI features in SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability, we currently depend on other AI features such as BigPanda and other tools. There are some improvements in correlation, but it is stil...

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What is your primary use case for SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability?

Most valuable features of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability compared to the previous platform are not immediately apparent. However, since we have not fully moved to SaaS, I cannot comment on t...

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Overview

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.

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?

Unified Monitoring: Delivers a comprehensive monitoring platform for IT infrastructure.
User-Friendly Dashboards: Offers intuitive and customizable dashboards for efficient monitoring.
Extensive Plugins: Enables flexibility and customization through numerous plugins.
Scalability: Allows expansion of monitoring duties without additional costs.
Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with ticketing systems and other tools.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Cost Efficiency: Minimized resolution time through proactive maintenance features.
Ease of Use: Simplifies monitoring with its user-friendly interface.
Proactive Issue Resolution: Real-time monitoring and alerts help prevent service outages.
Customizable Reporting: Adapts reports to meet specific organizational requirements.
Diverse Network Management: Capable of handling diverse IT environments efficiently.

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.

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SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability enhances IT operations with comprehensive visibility across hybrid environments for improved performance and uptime.

Providing a unified platform, SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability allows IT teams to manage, monitor, and optimize both on-premises and cloud resources. It integrates seamlessly with existing tools, improving efficiency with robust data analytics and visualization. Its advanced features decrease time-to-resolution for system issues and help maintain system health.

What are the most important features of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability?

Comprehensive Visibility: Provides insights into network, application, and infrastructure performance.
Seamless Integration: Works with cloud and on-premises systems for unified management.
Data Analytics: Leverages advanced analytics for performance monitoring and optimization.
Visualization Tools: Offers dashboards and visual representations of key performance indicators.
Scalability: Adapts to growing business needs with flexible deployment options.

Which benefits and ROI aspects should users look for?

Improved System Uptime: Reduces downtime with proactive monitoring.
Efficient Resource Allocation: Optimizes resource usage for cost savings.
Faster Issue Resolution: Decreases time required to identify and fix issues.
Enhanced IT Productivity: Streamlines workflows, enabling more focus on strategic activities.

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is implemented across multiple industries like healthcare, finance, and manufacturing to ensure reliable performance and security of IT ecosystems. Its adaptability and comprehensive coverage make it a favored choice for enterprises managing both legacy and cloud-based infrastructures.

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Sample Customers

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.

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