Huawei eSight is ranked 33rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 1 review while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 9 reviews. Huawei eSight is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 8.0.
The top reviewer of Huawei eSight writes 'Great alarm management with good scalability capabilities and good visualization of network devices'. On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes 'Great interface but has no end to end monitoring from a user perspective'. Huawei eSight is most compared with Cisco Prime LAN Management, HPE OneView and Aruba Airwave, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. ProsI can't point to one valuable feature.
All of Centreon is good. It is decentralized, which is better, because you can reduce the load from a single system. Also, you get a better view because it's more independent.
Then, for the management, it's nice because they have one central system. With that, they can manage all the other systems, as well.
This means they don't have to configure each system by system. They can configure it from one single interface.
We use the remote server functionality on some customer sites, because you can see an independent view and are not dependent on a single connection. If you have branch offices or bigger office outside your headquarters, you can use remote servers because if the connection is broken or disrupted, then remote server will obtain a view of your environment and server availability.
This is a good point against using other solutions. Because with other solutions, you don't have this feature. Then, you will be blind if you have this type of a situation. I find the product's scalability to be one of the most valuable features since it allows us to add unlimited devices for monitoring and to set up additional polling servers without additional license cost or downtime in our monitoring. The product is available in ISO image format, ready for deployment. Centreon also has a comprehensive guide and documentation that are simple and easy to follow.
The most important feature is that it permits us to receive alarms if there is an incident within the infrastructure.The feature I love the most is the reporting feature, the MBI (Monitoring Business Intelligence) which permits us to send advanced reports to our customers in PDF format or in Doc format.We also deploy Centreon Map which gives our customers intuitive views of their information system. We are alerted on service impacts and not when something is down. We have saved a lot of time on non-business-hours intervention. What I like most about Centreon is that it is very flexible and customizable, based on the user and/or business needs. Centreon is very flexible when it comes to monitoring parameters. We can use scripts found on the internet or scripts created by our infra/apps team.
Also, the data visualization features are very simple and straightforward, yet very informative.The most important features are alarm management and the visualization of the health of our network devices.The installation and configuration process are easy. The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health. I use it on premises to monitor my network database.
We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well. This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices. The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly.
I like the interface. We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down. The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources.
It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature. ConsThere is room for improvement in the area of artificial intelligence. The product gives us a lot of information, but it's only information. We want the product to do more auto-remediation. I would like to see an improvement of the communication with big data systems, because Centreon is a monitoring system. In our point of view, Centreon should be a part of a source for a big data system, not a big data system itself.
So, it should be easier to add data from the Centreon system to a big data system. For example, it should be able to teach machine learning.
Centreon supports officially 10,000 services per poller. That is not much for larger customers, because this limit is reached very quickly. We use it with three times the limit without any problems, but Centreon says, 'Okay, we are only supporting it with 10,000 services.' We are aware that increasing the limit has different impacts because they need to support it. However, for most customers, it would be be very good if they could increase the limit of services. The Home view could be improved by adding customization functions that allow users to change the size of the widgets for a more uniform layout. Centreon technical support is only available during Central European business hours.
When it comes to critical business solutions, there should be a 24/7 hotline that customers can rely on. I would like to see a better UI, one which is more responsive. The most important issue is the capability to interconnect with other systems. It already exists for some of them.
For example, the Stream Connector is something we use to populate data in another system. This kind of facility for connecting should exist for all products that it makes sense to have connected to a monitoring solution. Centreon needs to improve the granularity of the data as well as the graphical data. It would also be better to if there was improvement to the filtering/grouping system as well as the creation of views.The solution needs to improve it's user interface to make it more modern and stylish. They need to design proper menu positions, features, etc. Right now the layout is complicated.Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold.
They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible. Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity.
I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy. Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring. One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user.
All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in. The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product. I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated. Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices.
Pricing and Cost AdviceThe pricing starts at around 5000 euro. However, this depends on: Your environment, the size of your host, how many hosts you have, how many remote pollers you have, and if you want to use the Monitoring Business Intelligence or Centreon MAP functionalities. You purchase a package. You have a support contract (there is also a platinum support contract) and it is per module.
That means you have to pay, e.g., for the MBI module or the BAM module. Or, if you want to save a lot of money, you can pay for IMP, which is the complete package.
Open-source solutions like this can be very cost effective for an organization looking for a product that they can quickly implement, as there is no initial cost and there are no license renewal fees. However, it is important to take into consideration some of the related costs that may come along as needed, such as training, support, and product enhancements. The solution is very effective, despite the low price. I think Centreon's pricing is fair, especially given the criticality of our system. They were cheaper than the other solutions.The licensing terms were pretty straightforward. I believe it was based on the number of hosts.
The pricing is acceptable. They only sell four hour slots for support, so if you have just one question, then you need to pay for four hours. Or, you need to wait until you have enough questions to fill those four hours.
They are not flexible in this. For more complex tasks, we use prepaid support days and ask Centreon to come onsite. Information Not AvailableThere are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive. Aside from the initial cost for the tool, you need to pay additionally for support. The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products.
The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive. I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees. Pricing is reasonable compared to other products.