Centreon vs Cisco Intersight comparison

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Centreon and Cisco are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Centreon is ranked #26 with an average rating of 7.7, while Cisco is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.6. Centreon holds a 1.5% mindshare in IM, compared to Cisco’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Centreon users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Cisco users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Centreon and Cisco Intersight compete in the field of IT infrastructure management and monitoring. Centreon seems to have the upper hand with its cost-effectiveness and customizable features, which contribute to a quicker ROI, while Cisco Intersight stands out for its integration and automation capabilities, appealing to environments with complex needs.

Features: Centreon provides a comprehensive monitoring platform that includes real-time insights and customizable dashboards. It offers scalability, ease of integration, and supports a variety of plugins for enhanced monitoring. Cisco Intersight delivers powerful data center infrastructure management with robust integration capabilities and a single management portal for cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.

Room for Improvement: Centreon users would like improvements in system reliability and cloud service monitoring, as well as enhancements in mobile app notification capabilities. Cisco Intersight could benefit from better automation capabilities for hybrid cloud management and a more seamless migration tool from UCS Manager. Customers point out setup complexities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Centreon often supports on-premises deployments and is praised for rapid technical support, although around-the-clock service is lacking. Its flexibility and partner support are valued, but better API functionality is recommended. Cisco Intersight users appreciate its support for hybrid and public cloud environments and generally responsive customer service, although some integration challenges exist.

Pricing and ROI: Centreon is noted for its attractive pricing in open-source scenarios, contributing to reduced resource costs and efficient monitoring. While Cisco Intersight is competitively priced, users feel the high initial costs can outweigh the savings, though the simplicity of its licensing is favorable.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

8.1

Centreon enhances ROI through efficient monitoring, quick issue resolution, cost savings, and minimal impact during outages.

Sentiment score

5.9

Cisco Intersight provides ROI by lowering staffing and operational costs through network consolidation and reduced manual tasks.

Centreon provides timesaving and costsaving benefits as it lets us manage multiple devices on a single platform.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It significantly saves time by automating monitoring tasks and reduces costs as it requires fewer resources.

Aadinath Tikone

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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It simplifies the onboarding of new hardware, reducing time spent on manual installations and configurations.

Humphrey Hlatshwayo

Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa

I have seen a return on investment, as we need fewer employees, and most of it can be done from one dashboard.

YusufOezeren

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.1

Centreon's customer service is responsive and knowledgeable, though availability limitations and support level improvements are needed.

Sentiment score

7.5

Cisco Intersight customer service is highly rated, though support quality varies due to regional differences and specific contracts.

We do not have direct access to Centreon's technical support.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

If issues arise, like services appearing as down in Centreon, technical support helps check the polar-server communication.

Aadinath Tikone

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Technical support from Centreon responds within 24 hours and resolves issues quickly.

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

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For complex issues, it's challenging to get the right engineer quickly unless you have a specific contract like CX.

Carlos Miñano

Senior Network Architect at ocp tech

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the customer support a ten.

YusufOezeren

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

I would rate the technical support by Cisco as an eight or nine, because Cisco TAC is one of the best TACs I work with.

ZiadRamoly

Team Lead for Network & Security at Secure Services Mauritius Ltd

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.0

Centreon is valued for flexibility and scalability, though improvements in data management and alert scaling are recommended.

Sentiment score

7.7

Cisco Intersight provides efficient, seamless scalability, allowing remote management of complex environments with adaptable policies and high user ratings.

Occasionally, for several hours, we do not receive any alerts, causing a business impact.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use other tools for adding and deploying configured devices, but direct access from Centreon would be beneficial.

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

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I rate its scalability a ten out of ten due to its capability to manage multiple domains and automate service requests.

Humphrey Hlatshwayo

Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa

Scalability allows for creating server profiles quickly, mapping them to multiple servers, and removing them when scaling down.

AbhinavSingh

Technical Marketing Engineer Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures at NetApp

Cisco Intersight scales straightforwardly with the growing needs of the organization.

ZiadRamoly

Team Lead for Network & Security at Secure Services Mauritius Ltd

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

Centreon is stable and reliable, though stability may vary; support resolves issues swiftly, especially with the latest versions.

Sentiment score

7.7

Cisco Intersight is mostly stable and reliable, with some challenges in upgrades and hardware-related performance issues.

Sometimes we do not receive alerts, causing business impact, and users ask why no alerts were received.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Centreon is a much more straightforward and stable tool compared to Icinga.

Aadinath Tikone

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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After five years, if I don't have access to the Cisco Intersight portal, how do I manage my servers if I want to conduct some test environments?

ZiadRamoly

Team Lead for Network & Security at Secure Services Mauritius Ltd

Some steps are not included in the official documentation, which can create challenges.

Carlos Miñano

Senior Network Architect at ocp tech

It is always accessible online, secure, and allows access from any location, following strict authentication standards.

Humphrey Hlatshwayo

Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa

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Room For Improvement

Centreon users seek improved customization, monitoring, UI, documentation, integration, mobile features, auto-remediation, multilingual support, and notifications.

Cisco Intersight needs improved migration, integration, usability, automation, and cost-effectiveness, with emphasis on stability and on-premise features.

Enhancements are needed in identifying configuration issues, providing real-time alerts in case of issues, and improving the HTTP configuration tasks.

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

Reliability is sometimes an issue. Centreon has a developer mode and production mode, but sometimes alerts don't come through in production mode.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

While Centreon excels at server-level monitoring, it lacks the ability to track web app availability and latency, unlike Dynatrace, which is efficient in this area.

Aadinath Tikone

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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For how Cisco Intersight can be improved, I focus on two points: visual policies, which I believe is the most important improvement, and the possibility to work with local labs in a local infrastructure.

Javier Terán

Consultant at SOSNET

There is a significant issue regarding migration from UCS Manager into Intersight without formatting the Fabric Interconnects (FI), which is problematic in a production environment.

ItzikLiberman

System Presale at Bezeq

It would be great to have a chat session mode AI so that when I am on standby and encountering issues, I could engage with it, much like ChatGPT.

Humphrey Hlatshwayo

Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa

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Setup Cost

Centreon provides an open-source solution for SMEs but has a complex pricing model for enterprises needing premium features.

Cisco Intersight offers competitive pricing with free and paid tiers, offset by high initial costs and complex pricing structures.

Centreon's pricing is not very expensive.

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

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The pricing is fair and reasonable, particularly for enterprises.

Humphrey Hlatshwayo

Systems Engineer at FNB South Africa

Cisco Intersight's license cost is very high compared to AWS and Azure solutions, which have lower initiation costs.

Anura Damayantha

Technology Architect at University of Helsinki

The pricing is solid for what we get.

YusufOezeren

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

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Valuable Features

Centreon offers unlimited monitoring, enhanced visualization, and customizable features for efficient oversight with extensive device compatibility and anomaly detection.

Cisco Intersight enhances data center management through automation, integration, predictive analysis, and AI-driven insights, reducing manual work.

Monitoring is a fundamental pillar of technical support, and Centreon streamlines this process, reducing the need for extensive manual checks.

Aadinath Tikone

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Centreon's real-time monitoring, despite having some manual aspects, supports us in managing our operations effectively.

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

Centreon allows us to monitor all of our devices on one platform.

Tinkesh Chaudhary

Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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This solution has provided time savings and required fewer people to operate this tool, rather than direct cost savings.

Mohamed-Elsharkawy

Sr. Network Engineer at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

It provides visibility into other products and storage, and is beneficial for environments where Cisco and other vendors coexist, allowing full visibility of the entire infrastructure.

ItzikLiberman

System Presale at Bezeq

It also provides predictive analysis, predicting data leaks and making it easy to scale up servers remotely without requiring physical interference.

Anura Damayantha

Technology Architect at University of Helsinki

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Categories and Ranking

Centreon

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

26th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (24th), Cloud Monitoring Software (20th)

Cisco Intersight

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Centreon is 1.5%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco Intersight is 1.6%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cisco Intersight	1.6%
Centreon	1.5%
Other	96.9%

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Featured Reviews

Sulesh PK

Monitoring and Operations Pilot at Egis S.A.

Experience enhanced monitoring with real-time alerts and efficient support

I would like to see automation in the poller features, as currently, the poller is not automated. If we could automate the addition or removal of hosts in the poller, it would improve efficiency. Sometimes, Centreon does not show the status of services as updated, which should be addressed. Additionally, enhancements are needed in identifying configuration issues, providing real-time alerts in case of issues, and improving the HTTP configuration tasks, as Centreon does not currently display issues with HTTP links, requiring manual investigation.

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AbhinavSingh

Technical Marketing Engineer Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures at NetApp

Centralized policies have simplified hybrid operations and now support automated workflows

The challenge could be if there are any bugs. Most of the time, you may feel that the TCAM resources are getting full on the Nexus just because of some bug or the configuration is not supported. Or sometimes, if there are any vulnerabilities happening on the current running firmware, those are challenges we have. And if you talk about from the compute side, there were initial bugs such as a CPU throttle issue. Because of that, the chassis was not running in an optimum way. You may see performance issues during that time. For that, Cisco released a patch, and it got fixed. I think Cisco Intersight should allow more automation capabilities. It should be more open, and it should provide more automation capabilities. I think there is also a scope of making it a little bit simpler because a lot of policy and config sometimes becomes confusing for the user because it has a lot of config. Maybe they can do a little bit of simplification with Cisco Intersight.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

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Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	10

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Centreon?

Centreon's pricing is not very expensive. Initially, I rated it seven, but corrected to five out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Centreon?

I have certain concerns with Centreon, such as being unable to set downtime for multiple devices at once due to the limitation of adding only 50 devices in a single go. Increasing this limit would ...

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What is your primary use case for Centreon?

We are using Centreon for monitoring devices, both LAN and WAN devices. There are subsidiaries for my company, so if any devices go down or there are any service alerts, we receive alerts through C...

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What needs improvement with Cisco Intersight?

Regarding improvements for Cisco Intersight, I would say more third-party integration is needed. At the moment it does have a basic integration of Pure Storage, so I can add my Pure Storage if I ha...

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What is your primary use case for Cisco Intersight?

My main use case for Cisco Intersight is to register our Cisco UCS servers and apply profiles to our servers with configurations, firmware deployment automatically, and install the operating system...

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What advice do you have for others considering Cisco Intersight?

I would rate Cisco Intersight a nine out of ten. I give it a nine because personally, I think it is one of the best management tools ever. I have worked before with different server vendors and dif...

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Overview

Centreon offers a robust IT infrastructure monitoring platform, featuring user-friendly dashboards and real-time monitoring. It excels in scalability and integration, making it suitable for monitoring diverse network environments.

Centreon stands out with its unified monitoring capabilities, providing businesses with user-friendly dashboards and extensive plugins for customization. Its scalability ensures companies can expand monitoring tasks without incurring additional costs. Integration capabilities allow seamless interaction with ticketing systems and automation tools. Centreon offers customizable reporting and effectively manages downtimes, providing real-time feedback and proactive maintenance through Business Activity and Anomaly Detection features. Despite its strengths, users find areas for improvement including downtime scheduling, API functionalities, UI enhancements, end-to-end monitoring, and documentation. Businesses are increasingly demanding better automation, network discovery, cloud monitoring, and notification options.

What are Centreon's standout features?

Unified Monitoring: Delivers a comprehensive monitoring platform for IT infrastructure.
User-Friendly Dashboards: Offers intuitive and customizable dashboards for efficient monitoring.
Extensive Plugins: Enables flexibility and customization through numerous plugins.
Scalability: Allows expansion of monitoring duties without additional costs.
Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with ticketing systems and other tools.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Cost Efficiency: Minimized resolution time through proactive maintenance features.
Ease of Use: Simplifies monitoring with its user-friendly interface.
Proactive Issue Resolution: Real-time monitoring and alerts help prevent service outages.
Customizable Reporting: Adapts reports to meet specific organizational requirements.
Diverse Network Management: Capable of handling diverse IT environments efficiently.

Centreon is implemented across industries to monitor IT infrastructures, including networks, servers, and applications. Companies leverage it to track server performance, manage network devices, and receive timely alerts on device status. Its ability to integrate with ticketing systems and automation tools streamlines operations, enhancing global IT infrastructure monitoring and customer service management with real-time feedback and issue resolution.

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Cisco Intersight delivers advanced data center management with cloud integration, remote server scaling, and predictive analytics, promoting efficient infrastructure management. It supports hybrid environments and is suitable for scaling across enterprises.

Cisco Intersight offers a comprehensive view of data centers with seamless cloud platform integration, enhancing manageability across environments. It is known for workflow automation, inventory management, and predictive analysis, allowing users to optimize workloads. Users leverage its scalability and ease of use, with features that aid in remote management and integration with both Cisco and non-Cisco products. However, improvements are needed in usability, automation, and third-party tool integration, especially for on-premises and hybrid cloud management. Users often face challenges with firmware management and transitioning from UCS Manager. Desired enhancements include better software compatibility, third-party integrations, expanded microservices support, enhanced AI features, and more automation capabilities, addressing setup complexity, support, and high maintenance costs.

What are the main features of Cisco Intersight?

Data Center Management: Provides insights into data centers with comprehensive monitoring.
Cloud Integration: Enables integration with cloud platforms for enhanced workflows.
Remote Management: Facilitates remote management of data center environments.
Predictive Analytics: Offers analysis tools for workload optimization and planning.
Scalability: Capable of scaling with enterprise infrastructure needs.

What are the expected benefits of using Cisco Intersight?

Improved Infrastructure Management: Offers tools for efficient management across environments.
Enhanced Workflow Automation: Reduces manual tasks with automation capabilities.
Cost-Effective Operations: Promotes efficiency and reduces maintenance costs.
Comprehensive Integration: Supports seamless integration with diverse platforms and technologies.
Performance Optimization: Utilizes predictive analytics for optimizing system performance.

In industries where data center management and integration are critical, such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, Cisco Intersight is used to monitor and manage infrastructure across multiple sites. Its capability to combine platforms like HyperFlex and VMware allows organizations to maintain hardware status effectively, supporting both on-premises and cloud environments for efficient service delivery.

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Sample Customers

Airbus, Bollore, BT, Canal Plus, Kuehne Nagel, Limagrain, LVMH, Oberthur Technologies, Orange, Darty, Addax Petroleum, Plastic Omnium, Auchan, Valeo, Saint Gobin, Clarins, Hugo Boss, JC Decaux, French Government (Defense, Justice, Environment, Agriculture), OptiComm, Thales, Zeiss.

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