openITCOCKPIT
Network monitoring software
Monitoring software
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What is openITCOCKPIT
openITCOCKPIT is an IT infrastructure monitoring platform built around Nagios-compatible monitoring concepts for hosts, services, and network devices. It is used by IT operations teams and managed service providers to centralize status dashboards, alerting, and reporting across heterogeneous environments. The product combines a web-based UI with integrations for common monitoring plugins and supports distributed monitoring setups. It is commonly deployed on Linux and can be used in both smaller environments and multi-site monitoring designs.
Nagios plugin compatibility
openITCOCKPIT supports Nagios-style checks, which allows teams to reuse a large ecosystem of existing monitoring plugins and check definitions. This can reduce migration effort when moving from legacy Nagios-based monitoring. It also enables monitoring of a wide range of infrastructure components without requiring vendor-specific agents for every use case.
Web UI and dashboards
The product provides a browser-based interface for viewing host/service status, acknowledgements, downtimes, and alert history. Dashboards and views help operations teams triage incidents and track current health across multiple systems. This UI-centric approach can be easier to operationalize than configurations that rely primarily on command-line tooling.
Distributed monitoring support
openITCOCKPIT supports distributed monitoring architectures, which helps organizations monitor multiple sites or segmented networks. This design can improve scalability and resilience compared with a single monitoring node. It also supports central visibility while keeping checks closer to monitored endpoints where needed.
Steeper setup and tuning
Initial deployment typically requires Linux administration skills and familiarity with Nagios-style concepts such as hosts, services, check intervals, and notification rules. Achieving high signal-to-noise alerting often requires careful threshold tuning and maintenance. Organizations expecting rapid, low-configuration onboarding may find the setup more involved than some SaaS-first monitoring tools.
Less native APM depth
The platform is primarily oriented toward infrastructure and service checks rather than deep application performance monitoring. While it can integrate with external checks and metrics sources, it may not provide the same out-of-the-box distributed tracing, code-level diagnostics, or automatic service dependency discovery found in more application-centric observability suites. Teams may need additional tools for end-to-end APM workflows.
UI and workflow variability
Some operational workflows (e.g., configuration management, templating, and bulk changes) can depend on how the instance is structured and which add-ons or integrations are used. This can lead to variability in day-to-day usability across deployments. Larger environments may need stronger governance and automation around configuration changes to avoid drift.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Community Edition | Free | Fully free Community Edition; downloadable; basic monitoring (Naemon/Statusengine, agents/plugins); community support. |
| Bronze (Enterprise subscription) | €1,000 per year | Max services: 1,000; no additional satellites; runs on Ubuntu/Debian; basic support included. |
| Silver (Enterprise subscription) | €3,499 per year | Max services: 5,000; max satellites: 2; includes test/development system; Distributed monitoring / High scalability available (from Silver). |
| Gold (Enterprise subscription) | €4,999 per year | Max services: 10,000; max satellites: 5; includes distributed/high-scalability and Red Hat / RHEL support. |
| Platinum (Enterprise subscription) | €9,999 per year | Max services: 30,000; max satellites: 10; SAP monitoring included (SAP monitoring is included from Platinum). |
Additional paid options / notes:
- SAP monitoring (add-on): €2,499 per year (listed as an add-on for Bronze, Silver, Gold; included in Platinum).
- Mobile server (add-on): €3,499 per year.
- For custom/greater service counts or specific requirements: "Contact us" (custom pricing).
- Support contracts (separate from subscription): Standard support listed at €4,999/year and Premium at €14,999/year (optional enhancements to the basic support included with subscriptions).
