Observium

Observium

13 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Observium	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A

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Community Pulse
	Observium
Considered Both Products	Observium Verified User Engineer Chose Observium Observium provides a free version and free trial, while others provide a free trial only. Live online training and documentation are available for observing, while others do not have these. It provides bandwidth monitoring, baseline management, resources management, server … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Observium SolarWinds does when Observium can do but for a much larger price tag. That is what the decision came down to. Incentivized Helpful? Derek Dolan Senior System Administrator Chose Observium Observium is easier to use and "prettier" than most of the other open source tools out there. It's also significantly cheaper than most of the mid-range NMS products out there, and several orders of magnitude cheaper than the big boys. It tends to be my go-to NMS for these … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Observium I haven't used other products that are similar to Observium. Observium is an open tool, with a robust feature set. There are elements of comparable monitoring across other tools, but nothing I've seen that is a complete parallel in terms of feature set and visualizations. If I … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Using the product Pro Data collection Pro Power consumption
Top Cons	Minus Community support Minus Time frame Minus Customized dashboards

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User Ratings
	Observium
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Observium
Likelihood to Recommend	Observium If you are on a budget, this is one heck of a tool for the price (including the ~$200/year for the Pro subscription). If you are OK with maintaining and updating open source tools, this is a great tool. If you are afraid of the Linux command line or live in a Windows-centric world, this might not be the tool for you. If you can't stand things occasionally not working, this is probably not a good fit. Incentivized Derek Dolan Senior System Administrator Read full review
Pros	Observium Automatic device discovery. Scalability Real-time monitoring. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Observium Documentation Community support Easy to set up but hard to customise fully Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Observium It's open source. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes the provided documentation is beyond frustrating, other times it's right on the mark. Incentivized Derek Dolan Senior System Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Observium I haven't used other products that are similar to Observium. Observium is an open tool, with a robust feature set. There are elements of comparable monitoring across other tools, but nothing I've seen that is a complete parallel in terms of feature set and visualizations. If I were asked, I wouldn't have another tool to recommend over Observium. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Observium It is good for DC admin. Only positive impact. Highly recommended. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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