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Network monitoring with intuition

Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides
real-time insight into network health and performance. It can automatically
discover network devices and services, collect performance metrics, and generate
alerts when problems are detected.

Observium includes a web-based interface that allows users to view network
status and performance metrics in real time, as well as historical data. It is
designed to be easy to use and maintain, with a focus on providing the
information that network administrators need to quickly identify and resolve
issues

Observium supports a wide range of device types, platforms and operating systems
including Cisco, Windows, Linux, HP, Juniper, Dell, FreeBSD, Brocade, Netscaler,
NetApp and many more.

Professionally developed and maintained by a team of experienced network
engineers and systems administrators, Observium is a platform designed and built
by its users.




EXPAND VISIBILITY

Observium improves the visibility of your network infrastructure by
automatically collecting and displaying information about services and protocols
you may not otherwise monitor.


EASE PLANNING

Observium helps to streamline capacity and disaster recovery planning by
providing long term network metric collection and intuitive visual
representations of collected performance data.


IMPROVE RELIABILITY

Observium improves your network's reliability by providing you with the
information to proactively respond to a greater number of potential issues
before they become service impacting.

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ENTERPRISE, PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY EDITIONS

Observium Professional and Enterprise are distributed via an SVN-based release
mechanism, providing rapid access to daily security and bug fixes as well as new
features. A summary of fixes and improvements can be found in the Changelog.

Observium Enterprise is intended for deployments requiring additional support
and includes 10 hours of support time and priority consideration for new
features.

Observium Community is distributed via 6-monthly .tar.gz releases under the QPL
Open Source license. The most recent release is 23.09 (20th Sept 2023) based on
Subscription Edition revision 13005. It is a major update to the previous
version, with 558 commits since the previous version.

The Community Edition receives updates and new features on a 12 to 6-monthly
release cycle and is best for small non-critical deployments, home use,
evaluation or lab environments. Follow the instructions in our documentation for
upgrades and installation.

Observium Professional Edition subscriptions are available free of charge to
registered charities and Open Source projects.

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  Community
Ideal for home labs
Free Professional
Ideal for SME and ISPs
€240.00 / yr Enterprise
Ideal for large Enterprises
€1,200.00 / yr Realtime software updates and fixes Twice-yearly releases Number
of monitored devices, ports and sensors Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Full
autodiscovery of supported devices and metrics Network mapping through discovery
protocols Rule-based automatic grouping Threshold, State and Syslog Alerting
Traffic accounting system IP SLA, Pseudowire and Class-based QOS metrics RESTful
API Support and Services options available Ability to scale an instance across
multiple servers Priority consideration of feature requests Included
Enterprise-grade email & live support 10 Hours Download Purchase Purchase

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EXTENSIVE DEVICE SUPPORT

PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY EDITIONS

Observium supports a wide range of devices and operating systems spanning both
standard and private MIBs. Over 458 separate OS types are currently supported
including autodetection and graphing of device metrics from hundreds of industry
standard and private MIBs.

Support is also provided for the Alcatel AIP, Cisco CDP, Foundry FDP and LLDP
discovery protocols, vendor-specific extensions to BGP4-MIB from Cisco, Force 10
and Juniper, vendor-specific MAC accounting from Cisco and Juniper and extended
vendor-specific statistics collection for various load balancers, wireless
access points and enterprise storage systems.

The Observium development team frequently works with hardware vendors to extend
and test support for new devices.

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TRAFFIC ACCOUNTING

PROFESSIONAL EDITION

Traffic Accounting is a feature available in the Professional Edition which is
designed to ease the process of tracking and billing customer bandwidth usage.
It independently polls and stores measurements in its own database tables to
bypass traditional round-robin limitations. It can be run at different intervals
to the primary Observium poller allowing accounting to be based on intervals
other than the default 5 minutes.

Accounting by both total transferred data and 95th percentile is supported.

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EXTERNAL INTEGRATION

PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY EDITIONS

Observium supports integration with a number of third party applications and the
ability to write your own custom application modules to collect and report data
from your applications.

Integration exists for collectd, munin, smokeping and RANCID, allowing you to
view metrics and configuration data collected by these tools within the
Observium interface, helping to streamline diagnostics and day to day
operations.

Supplied application collectors include Apache, BIND, DRBD, Memcached, MySQL,
NFS and others.



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THRESHOLD ALERTING

PROFESSIONAL EDITION

Observium's threshold alerting system allows you to configure thresholds and
failure states for a wide range of different entity types. Some types support
automatic collection of thresholds from the monitored device itself.

Alerting entries are automatically created during the discovery process making
sure that your alerting system is kept up to date with the configuration of your
network infrastructure, helping to reduce the number of missed alerts.

Tests can be associated with devices and entities using a flexible system of
association definitions rather than preset templates or manual configurations.

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GLOBALLY TRUSTED

PROFESSIONAL EDITION

Observium's Professional Edition has built up a broad and extensive userbase
consisting of Governments, Major Corporations, Telecommunications providers and
ISPs, Small and Medium Enterprises, Non-profit Organisations and individual
users.

Observium powers tens of thousands of installations monitoring millions of
devices.

Notable users include: Twitch, eBay, PayPal, Aramco, Squarespace, The Scottish
Government, Yahoo Inc., The Queensland Government, Spotify, CCP Games, Daily
Motion, FranceIX, The US Department of Energy, eHarmony, Allied Telesis, Arista
and many more.



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> For Managed IT companies like ours, monitoring our customers' infrastructure
> is critical. For years, we went through every network monitoring package we
> could find. We spent a lot of time and money, but we were never really happy
> with the results we got. When we found Observium, we were amazed by how simple
> the product was to configure and support. For the past two years, we've been
> able to sit back and allow Observium to work for us. Observium supports most
> of the network devices and appliances we've attempted to monitor out of the
> box, without any tedious configuration or cryptic programming. It
> automatically creates useful graphs and event logs that allow our technicians
> to visualize and take action on incoming data in real time. It's clear that
> the development team has a clear and concise vision for where they are going,
> and it shows in their product. I recommend Observium to anyone who is looking
> for a dependable, easy to use, and functional network monitoring and
> management product. Chad Maynard, TechOptics, Inc.

> Custodian DataCentres is a provider of colocation and connectivity services, a
> key part of our business is the delivery of high-capacity ‘always-on’
> networking across all our locations. With a wide selection of hardware
> platforms and a high overall port count it is essential that we collect high
> value statistical information in an automated manner. This huge quantity of
> information must then be ordered, filtered and analysed continuously; bringing
> only critical events to the attention of the Operations Centre team.
> 
> Observium is one of the key systems we use for this purpose, specifically for
> its ability to discover, collect and graph everything automatically, with
> almost zero engineer input. Global thresholds and alert templates are then
> applied to new devices as soon as they are added to our network. Providing an
> immediate and full view of any new devices, often before the engineers have
> even finished performing all the of the physical port connections. Recently we
> have completed a full core network upgrade across a number of our sites, and
> during this process Observium exceled and really came into its own; way ahead
> of our other systems. This was largely down to its ability to fully detect,
> learn and automatically generate all the monitored elements for newly deployed
> hardware without consuming valuable engineering time. This allows for rapid
> detection of ports with errors/issues or internal routing adjacencies which
> are down or encountering issues. Allowing the engineering team to focus on any
> issues, instead of spending time checking everything manually one item at a
> time.
> 
> Over the many years we have used Observium, it has evolved from a ‘nice little
> web tool’ to a core and critical element within our NOC. We find the
> continuous development of the product excellent and we have even added support
> for a couple of our more obscure devices ourselves. We look forward to
> continuing to work with Observium and are keen to see what the future for it
> holds as it and Custodian continue to grow.
> 
> Robert Williams, Technical Director, Custodian DataCentres

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