What is Observium?
Observium is an open source network monitoring and management platform designed specifically for monitoring the health and status of IT infrastructure devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and more. It provides auto-discovery of devices on the network and starts monitoring them automatically using SNMP and other protocols.
Some of the key features of Observium include:
- Automatic discovery of routers, switches, servers, printers, and other devices on the network.
- Live status, statistics, and metrics for all discovered devices.
- Customizable dashboards and health graphs.
- Alerting and event notifications via email, Slack, Telegram etc.
- Detailed reporting on network inventory, utilization, trends etc.
- Support for wide range of device vendors including Cisco, Juniper, Dell, HP etc.
- Scalable to monitor networks of any size from small offices to large enterprises.
- Open source software with an active development community.
Overall, Observium provides a flexible, integrated platform for gaining visibility and insights into the health and performance of the entire IT infrastructure through a single pane of glass. With its intuitive web interface and rich feature set, it serves as an excellent open source alternative to expensive commercial network monitoring tools.
Zabbix, Lansweeper, Paessler PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios, Datadog, LibreNMS, Spiceworks, Icinga, SysAid, Munin, IT Asset Tool, Eyes Of Network, Cabot, collectd, Sentinet3, CloudView NMS, GFI MAX RemoteManagement, unitworx are some alternatives to Observium.