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Read 8 Centreon reviews.
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Nmap
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Zabbix
Read 44 Zabbix reviews.
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Featured Review
William Johan Badenhorst
Proactive reporting guides our NOC on what needs to be fixed, saving them time
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... Read more →
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Being able to monitor almost any device in one location is extremely convenient
Before we didn't really have a centrally managed monitoring solution, so adding this product has been a blessing as we are able to actively monitor... Read more →
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  • "If you need basic monitoring without dashboards, just monitoring, the plugins are very useful and really cheap. If you want a more complete solution with dashboards and reporting, the EMS solution is great and it is not that much more expensive. It's a good value. Really good."
  • "Centreon is always available to develop new plugins when needed. The most important thing is that their maintenance account yearly subscription fee includes the fact that they will maintain the new plugins that you requested them to deliver."
  • "The pricing works out well for us, given our environment and where we are."
  • "Centreon is better than Nagios XI in regards to cost and support response times, when you have a problem. If you have a problem, it costs money to contact the Nagios XI support."
  • "Their licensing model is really easy. You have one license and you have access to all the features, compared to other tools where you have to purchase add-ons."
  • "It is perfect and very cheap if you are a little company or startup. After that, it is quite expensive for a big company."
  • "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."

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  • "I was using the free, Community Edition."
  • "We purchased Zabbix for a good price, including support"
  • "We are using the free, open-source version."
  • "It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."
  • "This solution is completely open-source, so it is quite affordable."
  • "Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."
  • "My manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything."
  • "This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Centreon?
    Top Answer: 
    The most valuable feature is that we can manually configure everything we need. After it comes inside the interface of… more »
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Centreon?
    Top Answer: 
    We buy the Centreon solution and licenses for many projects and monitoring hosts. It is perfect and very cheap if you… more »
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    What needs improvement with Centreon?
    Top Answer: 
    The solution’s customizable reports and dashboards for allowing management to see performance metrics is very well done… more »
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    What do you like most about Zabbix?
    Top Answer: 
    The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?
    Top Answer: 
    The solution is completely open-source and free to use.
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    What needs improvement with Zabbix?
    Top Answer: 
    An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices.
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    Overview
    The Centreon solution, based on a free to download Open Source Platform, monitors all critical IT Infrastructure and Applications with real-time dashboards, analytics and insightful alerts that prevent business-impacting downtimes. Since 2005, over 200,000 IT professionals from SMBs and Fortune 500 companies rely on Centreon to guarantee their organization operational performance.

    Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (Nping).

    Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices. Zabbix is Open Source and comes at no cost.

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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.
    Lockheed Martin, Eastern Bank Boston, Perspecta, Harris Corporation, Discovery Communication
    Bodybuilding.com, LLC., ITtelligent Consulting Services,Eltele AS, Total Server Solutions, LLC., ChinaNetCloud
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Comms Service Provider28%
    Wholesaler/Distributor6%
    Government5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company29%
    Comms Service Provider24%
    Government7%
    Financial Services Firm4%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Retailer7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider31%
    Computer Software Company24%
    Government7%
    Financial Services Firm5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise44%
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    Small Business49%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise49%
    Large Enterprise37%
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    Nmap is ranked 56th in Network Monitoring Software while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews. Nmap is rated 0.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". Nmap is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Azure Network Watcher, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, PRTG Network Monitor and Claroty Platform, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Splunk, Nagios Core, SolarWinds NPM and PRTG Network Monitor.

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