Opsview Community

Opsview Community edition is the server platform for business-powered monitoring of your physical, virtual and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

It provides administrators with innovative features that solve the challenges faced in a modern, heterogeneous infrastructure. Key advantages include compatibility with Windows®, Apple Mac®, and Linux® operating systems; easy installation, better scalability and ease of use; plus flexibility to integrate other applications in its modular architecture.

The Opsview Community edition is available for you to download free of charge. You can use, modify, and redistribute provided you do so according to the terms of the GPL License.

We welcome all Opsview Community edition users to join the Opsview community, and invite you to share contributions of bug-fixes, enhancements, or other modifications with us for consideration. A good first step is join our forums and learn more about becoming a contributor.

Resources

  • Developer Zone - Do you have an idea for the next great innovation in network and application monitoring? Visit our developer zone for ideas and tools to get you started
  • Forums - Subscribe to forums, ask questions and participate in the Community
  • RSS Feed - Subscribe to our community forum's RSS feed
  • Documentation - Visit our documentation wiki for comprehensive details on how to make Opsview work for you
  • Blog - Head over to Opsview Labs for the latest thoughts from the Opsview team on how to improve network and application monitoring
  • Third-party open source projects - we leverage the work of other leading open source technologies such as Linux, MySQL®, Nagios® Core, and NSClient. Find out more about our Technology Partners
  • Whitepapers - There are numerous Opsview whitepapers that cover what's wrong with proprietary system monitoring platforms, the architecture of Opsview, how we compare to our competitors and much more
  • Open source licensing - Opsview Enterprise edition is licensed under the terms of the General Public License version 2 (GPL2)

The system is capable of scaling to a great degree but also integrates event handling, event escalation and more. I've yet to find a system out there (OpenNMS, Groundworks) that can give me the level of information I need as well as the control I get out of Opsview.

-- Opsview Community user