openITCOCKPIT

openITCOCKPIT is a modern monitoring framework designed to oversee a wide range of systems, including baremetal servers, virtual machines, network devices, applications, containers, cloud environments, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. According to the vendor, it offers real-time monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities to ensure the availability and performance of critical systems. It caters to companies of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises. IT administrators, system administrators, network administrators, DevOps engineers, and IT operations managers across various industries commonly utilize this solution.

Key Features

Monitoring Agent: According to the vendor, openITCOCKPIT provides its own Monitoring Agent for Windows, Linux, and macOS, along with support for numerous community plugins to expand monitoring capabilities.

Updates: The vendor states that openITCOCKPIT receives frequent feature and security updates, which are seamlessly managed by the distribution's package manager.

Nagios Core compatible: According to the vendor, openITCOCKPIT utilizes Naemon as the monitoring engine and is fully compatible with Nagios. It offers a wide range of pre-configured templates and plugins, with access to thousands of community plugins.

Prometheus integration: The vendor claims that openITCOCKPIT allows users to combine traditional status monitoring with metrics-based monitoring using Prometheus. It provides a user-friendly graphical configuration GUI for managing exporters and creating alert rules.

Graphical configuration: According to the vendor, openITCOCKPIT features a graphical configuration GUI that simplifies the setup and management of Prometheus, eliminating the need for direct PromQL interaction.

Monitoring Dashboards: Users can create customized dashboards in openITCOCKPIT and share them with colleagues. The platform offers various visualization widgets, such as traffic lights, tachometers, tiles, and tables, to display the current state.

Grafana integration: The vendor states that openITCOCKPIT comes with Grafana as the default dashboarding and charting tool. It automatically generates Grafana dashboards for each host and allows users to create personalized Grafana dashboards.

Reporting and state history: According to the vendor, openITCOCKPIT provides various availability and SLA reports that can be generated manually or scheduled. It maintains a comprehensive event history for subsequent analysis and reporting purposes.

Event correlation: The vendor claims that openITCOCKPIT enables users to correlate events with business services, facilitating the visualization of complex infrastructure and reducing the number of alerts for more efficient management.

ITSM Integrations: According to the vendor, openITCOCKPIT offers integrations with different service management tools, such as Naemon Core, Checkmk, Rocket.Chat, and ServiceNow, for monitoring, incident management, and automated data imports.