Centreon Infra Monitoring

Hello Watchers!At Centreon, we are constantly exploring new ways to make your IT operations smoother and more insightful. Today, we’re looking into a strategic topic and we’d love to get your thoughts: The convergence of Monitoring and Cybersecurity.Since Centreon already monitors your assets (OS, web servers, databases, networking gear) and often knows their versions, we are considering an integration that crosses this data with real-time CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) databases.The vision: A new security bulletin is released, and Centreon immediately flags the 15 servers in your infrastructure that are at risk—without you needing to trigger a manual scan.Before we dive deeper into this feature, we want to hear about your current reality:How do you manage vulnerabilities today? Do you use dedicated tools or is it a more manual process?

We are excited to introduce the CIM MCP Server, an open-source project that brings the power of AI assistants directly to your Centreon Infra Monitoring (CIM) platform.Available on GitHub, this integration opens a new way to interact with your monitoring data — using plain, natural language.What Is MCP?Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that allows AI assistants — such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Mistral Le Chat — to connect to external tools and services in a structured, secure way. By exposing capabilities through an MCP server, any compatible AI assistant can discover and invoke those capabilities on your behalf, turning your conversational prompts into real actions on your infrastructure.Centreon MCP Server in a NutshellThe CIM MCP Server acts as a bridge between your favorite AI assistant and your CIM instance. It is built i

Dear users, In order to simplify and improve the user experience of our software, we plan to remove two features in an upcoming major update:Creating services linked to multiple hosts. Creating services by host group.We understand that these features may still be used by some of you, but we believe they can be replaced by the use of templates. We are making this decision to optimize the software and make it more intuitive. Proposal of solutions when updating the Centreon platform Services linked to multiple hostsCreating a service linked to multiple hosts allows you to have an identical configuration of this service f

Hello everyone, As part of our project to update our dedicated VMware connectors, we are deploying the foundation of the VMware 8 ESX monitoring connector via REST API this month. This connector is a lightweight version, as it only includes CPU, memory, power and host discovery modes. We have already planned to enhance this connector in the coming months with new modes. It is marked as experimental because, at this stage, we still need to verify its functionality with numerous metrics (as may be the case in certain production environments). Feel free to share your feedback on this and more generally on this connector here. We will keep you informed of progress on this subject. 

Dear Watchers,It had been asked for a while, we released it last December: a SNMP version 3 template is provided for Linux in our Monitoring Connectors. The documentation can be found there.I invite you to tell us here as a reply to this post, if you have feedback to give us about it.Does it fit your needs? Is it easy enough to use? Is the documentation clear?Any feedback will be great!Once we judge that the template is satisfying enough given your feedback, we’ll merge it into the Linux SNMP monitoring connector and apply the same method with

 We wish to inform all users that BBDO2 will be officially deprecated with the 25.10 release of Centreon. This change is part of our ongoing effort to enhance the platform’s performance, security, and compatibility with modern infrastructure requirements. What is BBDO? BBDO, for Binary Broker for Data Operations, is a core protocol for exchanging monitoring data between a Centreon central server and pollers/remote servers.  Why is BBDO2 Being Deprecated? With Broker 22.04.0, we have introduced a new version of BBDO based on Google Protobuf 3.The new protocol remains compatible with the previous one, but introduces new events.There are several key reasons for the depreciation of BBDO2:Performance improvements Flexibilit

 Reminder: Centreon Version 23.04 End of Life (EOL) Approaching SoonAs per the Centreon product lifecycle, we would like to remind all Centreon users that Centreon version 23.04 will soon reach its end of life (EOL). It is crucial to ensure that your infrastructure remains secure and up-to-date by upgrading to a supported version.If your platform is currently on version 23.04, it is highly recommended to upgrade to a newer version to continue receiving security updates and support. The upgrade process is thoroughly documented and can be accessed here.Thank you for your prompt attention to this important matter and for your continued support in keeping your systems secure. Stay ahead of potential threats by subscribin

📢 End of Support for Debian 11 in Version 24.10 🚨We want to inform our user community that with the upcoming release of Centreon 24.10, support for Debian 11 will officially come to an end.Debian 11 is already in Long Term Support, and Centreon has been supporting Debian 12 since 24.04.We will support in-place OS upgrades from Debian 11 to Debian 12 which you can perform with 24.04 before upgrading to Centreon 24.10.We appreciate your understanding as we continue to focus on providing the best possible monitoring solutions.For any questions or support, please don’t hesitate to reach out via our community forums or customer support. We’re here to help!  Don't forget to subscribe to the Latest News, Product Updates

[Update 09/30/24] This update confirms that MAP Legacy will be retired with 24.10 This is an announcement that Centreon will retire Centreon MAP Legacy starting next version 24.10. The diagramming and mapping functionality referred to as Centreon MAP is currently shipped in two flavors:MAP Legacy which relies on a client application running on a desktop to create/edit maps MAP Web, a web client fully embedded into the Centreon user interfaceThe following only relates to Ce

Hello Dashboards users! We are pleased to announce the release of Centreon Cloud, June 2024!New features and enhancements are now available for Cloud users, let's take a look at what's new...General AvailabilityNo more Beta mention. Centreon Dashboards are now generally available for Cloud users.Two new widgetsStatus ChartThis widget displays the distribution of current statuses on selected resources, as a chart.Business Activity DiagramThis widget displays graphically a business activity hierarchy of KPIs and lets you navigate thr

Hello everyone,We started working on MQTT and more specifically Mosquitto with the aim of making a new monitoring connector for it. We already have some ideas but we would like to know if any of you are already using Mosquitto and if so for what purpose do you use it? But also your wishes regarding the monitoring of it.

Dear Watchers,As I said here, we experimented a new SNMP version 3 template for Linux.We are planning to add similar SNMP version 3 templates to other monitoring connectors to make it easier to use SNMP v3 (I agree it's not ideal to use the $_SERVICEEXTRAOPTION$ macro for that) in more contexts.What I'm proposing you here is to answer to my post by giving:The name of the monitoring connector or the host template you'd like to see support SNMP v3 macros. The desired security levels (noAuthNoPriv, authNoPriv, authPriv).Then we'll prioritize the posts that will receive the highest number of "thumbs up" to deliver new templates in the monitoring connectors.Can’t wait for your suggestions!PS: If what you want is a template that do not exist yet as a mo