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Observium
What Is Observium?
Observium is a low-maintenance auto-discovering network monitoring platform supporting a wide range of device types, platforms and operating systems including Cisco, Windows, Linux, HP, Juniper, Dell, FreeBSD, Brocade, Netscaler, NetApp and many more. Observium focuses on providing a powerful yet simple and intuitive interface to the health and status of your network.
Who Uses Observium?
Observium's target markets include both the service provider and telecommunications operator markets as well as the enterprise and small business markets. Specialised features exist for both markets.
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Reviews of Observium
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Comments: Overall, I have had a very good experience using Observium as a tool and would definitely recommend it to my colleagues.
Pros:
We use this for network management. It helps us infer route conflicts and power consumption. It is a great tool to visualize distributed network.
Cons:
More customization for dashboards would be really good to have. Some more documentation would help with the learning curve for beginners.
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Best in the business for professionals, highly detailed
Comments: Overall experience is pretty decent,can add unlimited devices and specific historic data can be viewed accordingly.
Pros:
Detailed data info available,easy to configure, live statistics of individual attributes of hardwares makes it catchy.Better for Researchers and professionals.
Cons:
Observium server maintainance is difficult for all range of users,Mapping requires more clarity.UI also is less user-friendly.
Monitoring done easy
Comments: Overall Observium is a quick, easy and robust monitoring systems for small, large businesses and even home labs!
Pros:
Auto discovery of all of my networking equipment. I had dashboards up and displaying information in record time.
Cons:
Had some issues with stuff that was not in documentation. Had to reach out online on forums to get assistance from fellow admins
Very good monitoring solution which is extremely easy to setup
Comments: Gave me a very good overview of my network and my devices
Pros:
Very good overall monitoring solution for any kind of SNMP-able network device. Fast and simple to setup and get going. The user interface is easy to understand and presents just the right amount of information without getting messy.
Cons:
Not yet very good support for custom graphs and polling of devices that is not supported out of the box.
wonderful tool with loads of features, but some more stuff could be cool
Pros:
versatility is the strongest feat of this software. It can do a lot, with a lot of equipment, and does it good.
Cons:
Scalability. The solution is scalable, up to a point. Right now, with 75000+ ports and 1200+ devices, the hardware is barely managing it's 5 minutes poll cycles.
