Observium for Enterprise Network Monitoring
June 12, 2017
Observium for Enterprise Network Monitoring
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Observium
We use Observium as a network management software. It's nice because it's a lightweight tool that is a Linux distro, and allows for some great visualizations. The flexibility to load up our equipment and network paths, then view a high level overview of the traffic and netflow statistics, is critical in our choice to use this software. You can see things like user logins, processes on each router, and obtain optimization information for daily network management.
- You can see the bits per second that are happening on the ports, which is fantastic.
- Between logical interfaces, you can see how much bandwidth is being used per second/minute/hour.
- You can infer power consumption and conflicting routes. Great tool to aggregate and visualize your distributed network.
- The UI is pretty robust and succinct. It might be beneficial to have favorites for complex network schemas.
- Historical searching based on X time frame.
- More customized dashboards.
- Observium is enterprise-level network monitoring without the cost involved.
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.