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* FAQs http://observium.org/docs/faq/
* * Debian/Ubuntu Installation http://observium.org/docs/install_debian/
* RHEL/CentOS 6 Installation http://observium.org/docs/install_rhel6/
* RHEL/CentOS 7 Installation http://observium.org/docs/install_rhel7/
* Updating http://observium.org/docs/updating/
* * Alerting http://observium.org/docs/alert_checker/
* * Supported Devices http://observium.org/supported_devices/
* Application Monitors http://observium.org/docs/apps/

Observium alternatives

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  • Spiceworks

  • Join millions of IT professionals and download Spiceworks, a free network monitoring software with network management tools, help desk ticketing app, network mapper and more.

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  • LibreNMS

  • LibreNMS is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL based network monitoring system forked from Observium. LibreNMS aims to be easy to use, painless to deploy, and support monitoring of a wide range of devices. Observium's license changed to a modified QPL license in May 2012, and recently was split into free and commercial versions. Our aim with LibreNMS is to continue to create a usable NMS, but with a community focus and GPL licensing.

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  • Icinga

  • Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible. So, Nagios configurations, plugins and addons can all be used with Icinga. Though Icinga retains all the existing features of its predecessor, it builds on them to add many long awaited patches and features requested by the user community. Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over a network and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries, and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations. Icinga is licensed under GPL V2. »

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  • PRTG Network Monitor

  • An advanced, easy-to-use monitoring solution for your entire network. The software's features include: up/downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, packet sniffing, failover clustering, in-depth analysis and concise reporting. A user-friendly web-based interface allows users to quickly auto-discover and configure the network devices and sensors they wish to monitor. All common methods for acquiring network usage data are supported: SNMP and WMI, Packet Sniffing and NetFlow / sFlow / jFlow. It also offers SMTP/IMAP Roundtrip-Email Monitoring and VMware Monitoring, VoIP Monitoring, Toplists for Packet Sniffing and Netflow Sensors, as well as sensor aggregation using its built-in Sensor Factory. PRTG Network Monitor includes more than 200 sensor types for all common network services (e.g. PING, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, FTP, SSH etc.), allowing users to monitor networks for availability, speed and failures. As soon as an outage occurs, alerts are sent via email, SMS, pager messages and other means. Request times and downtimes are recorded in an internal database, making it easy to compile performance, downtime and SLA reports. Monitoring, reporting and notifications can be automatically scheduled at specific times. High Availabiltiy is guaranteed by the innovative failover cluster, and remote probes can be used for easy multi-location monitoring. Network maps can be created which provide users with a unique visual network management tool. PRTG Network Monitor's Freeware Edition is completely free for personal and commercial use. The Commercial Editions are required if you want to monitor more than ten sensors. »

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  • Datadog

  • Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev & Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into a unified view of IT infrastructure. Datadog's capabilities are provided on a SaaS-based data analytics platform that enables multiple teams to work collaboratively on infrastructure issues.

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  • Munin

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  • Cabot

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  • Opsview Atom

  • Opsview Atom is ideal for personal use, SoHo setups, test or lab environments or just to get your hands dirty with all of Opsview's monitoring functionality!

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  • OpenNMS

  • OpenNMS is an enterprise grade network monitoring and network management platform developed under the free software or open source model. It consists of a community-supported, free-software project as well as an organization offering commercial services, training and support.

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