Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to System Center Operations Manager

Product categories

Application Performance Monitoring Bug Trackers Crash Reporting Data Dashboard DevOps Tools Error Tracking Log Management Monitoring Tools Network & Admin Performance Monitoring Testing Website Monitoring

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to System Center Operations Manager are Nagios, Shinken, and Zabbix. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Nagios Landing Page
1

Nagios

Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management
Shinken Landing Page
2

Shinken

Nagios compatible monitoring framework, written in Python
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Website Monitoring #Network & Admin
Zabbix Landing Page
3

Zabbix

Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions
Datadog Landing Page
4

Datadog

See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog's cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $15.0 / Monthly (per host)
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Error Tracking 5 social mentions
Instana Landing Page
5

Instana

Instana is Dynamic APM for Microservice Management.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 1 social mentions
Grafana Landing Page
6

Grafana

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions
Cacti Landing Page
7

Cacti

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution. It provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management
Prometheus Landing Page
8

Prometheus

An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 224 social mentions
Munin Landing Page
9

Munin

PnP networked resource monitoring tool that can help to answer the what just happened to kill our performance
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 17 social mentions
Cabot Landing Page
10

Cabot

Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Website Monitoring #Uptime Monitoring 2 social mentions
openITCOCKPIT Landing Page
11

openITCOCKPIT

openITCOCKPIT is a leading open source monitoring framework based on Naemon (Nagios). In addition it integrates Checkmk and Prometheus. It also offers interfaces to Icinga2, PRTG and opManager to obtain status and performance from them.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Error Tracking 17 social mentions
Icinga Landing Page
12

Icinga

Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 8 social mentions