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Centreon, a leader in observability for digital performance, today announced its endorsement of the United Nations Open Source Principles, joining a growing community of organizations committed to responsible, collaborative, and scalable open-source development.

This endorsement reflects a natural continuation of Centreon’s 20-year open-source journey and aligns with the company’s own Open Source Manifesto. 

The UN Open Source Principles provide guidelines to promote collaboration and the adoption of open-source technologies within the UN and globally. Open Source United, a community of practice established by the UN Chief Executive Board’s Digital Technology Network (DTN), works to advance open source technologies across UN agencies, funds and programmes. It encourages collaboration and scalable solutions to support the delivery of UN mandates. The UN Open Source Principles consist of eight guidelines that offer a framework for the use, development, and sharing of Open Source software across the Organization.

For Centreon, the endorsement of the UN Open Source Principles confirms that the company’s long-standing practices are aligned with globally recognized principles, strengthening its role within the open-source ecosystem and supporting continued innovation across industries.

Centreon today announced a strategic partnership with Sixth Street, a global investment firm, to accelerate its development plan and support its ambition to establish Centreon as the leading European observability platform.

This milestone marks Centreon’s first-ever fundraising after years of sustained, self-financed growth. Bootstrapped since its founding, Centreon has achieved international scale and recognition while maintaining a disciplined and profitable growth model. The strategic partnership with Sixth Street represents a new phase of expansion and innovation designed to amplify Centreon’s next chapter and support the strategy and mission of the Centreon team.

This partnership comes on the heels of the recent launch of the Centreon Observability Platform, unveiled at last month’s Centreon Summit. The new platform unifies IT Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Management, and Digital Experience Monitoring into a modular, open observability solution.

With Sixth Street’s support, Centreon aims to accelerate its strategic roadmap through:

• Product innovation, enhancing AI-driven automation, analytics, and full-stack observability;
• International expansion, particularly across Europe and North America;
• Selective acquisitions, to complement organic growth and broaden the company’s technology portfolio, and;
• Ecosystem development, strengthening alliances with technology partners, MSPs, and integrators.

Centreon’s founders and management team retain board and capital control of the company, ensuring the continuity in its strategic vision, values, and commitment to openness, transparency, and customer proximity.

The partnership with Sixth Street strengthens this positioning — combining the agility of a European start-up with the backing of a global investor committed to long-term value creation.

Centreon was advised by Stifel (formerly Bryan Garnier & Co).

Centreon, a leader in digital performance monitoring, is awarded five new High-Profile Badges by G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. These badges reflect Centreon’s continued success in driving customer satisfaction and adoption across geographies and industry segments.

Among the recognitions received this Fall 2025:

• Highest User Adoption, Fall 2025, Server Monitoring category – awarded for the highest User Adoption rating in the Implementation Index.
• High Performer, Fall 2025, DevOps category, geo India, Asia, and Asia Pacific – highlighting Centreon’s strong customer satisfaction scores compared to market peers.
• Users Love Us, Fall 2025 – a key milestone badge, earned after surpassing 20 verified reviews with an average rating of 4.0 stars or higher. This “Users Love Us” Badge demonstrates Centreon customer-centricity

Centreon’s current rating of 4.7 out of 5 underscores its commitment to ease of use, quality support, and simple installation—key drivers of customer satisfaction.

These recognitions from G2 underscore Centreon’s mission to empower IT teams worldwide with a unified, open, and user-centric monitoring platform—helping organizations achieve always-on performance across their digital infrastructure.

G2 is a leading international B2B software marketplace. Each year, more than 80 million professionals use the G2 platform to make their software purchasing decisions, based on peer reviews. To learn more, visit the Centreon page on G2.

 Centreon, announces the general availability of the Centreon Monitoring Agent. This new open-source, multiplatform agent is provided with a dedicated user interface simplifying platform administration. The agent supports passive monitoring, as well as modern, hybrid and ephemeral infrastructures. 

Agent-based Monitoring: A must in modern environments

From containers, native clouds, short lifecycles to scalable services: modern infrastructures are evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. Using monitoring agents is essential to ensure optimal visibility into such dynamic environments, which demand a high level of flexibility, frequent data collection, and automation.

Centreon Monitoring Agent:  Supporting customers in their transformation

Centreon introduces its monitoring agent in the context of the continued digital transformation of its customers. The agent is installed directly on the components to be monitored. This so-called passive monitoring mode complements the existing active approach. 

The result is that Centreon monitoring is more flexible and quicker to deploy. The Centreon Monitoring Agent is fully secure, easy to configure across platforms, with unified administration on Linux and Windows, and supports Cloud or DMZ architectures. The primary benefit of the Centreon Monitoring Agent is that it simplifies configuration for ephemeral infrastructure and automates the monitoring of new components.

Beyond traditional metrics, observability

With its new monitoring agent, Centreon is further expanding its adoption of the OpenTelemetry framework. This unmatched open-source framework has become a staple in the observability market. Above all, the commitment to OpenTelemetry aligns with Centreon’s open-source DNA. 

The open standard will eventually enable Centreon to go beyond traditional metrics, and ensure the unified collection of logs, traces, and events, paving the way for enhanced observability and a deeper understanding of application behavior. Thanks to the OTLP protocol, the Centreon Monitoring Agent ensures native interoperability with other systems and is fully integrated into the modern open-source ecosystem.

Close collaboration with the Centreon community 

The development of the new Centreon Monitoring Agent was informed by feedback from over a hundred of The Watch community members participating to  a dedicated beta program, as well as ongoing interactions with users. Through engaging its community, Centreon provides a solution tailored to users’ expectations.

The Centreon Monitoring Agent benefits from a lifecycle independent of Centreon versioning, meaning it will not require a Centreon upgrade. Scheduled for release in July 2025, it will be accessible to all, regardless of the Centreon edition they are using (Open-Source, IT Edition, Business Edition, MSP Edition) or the deployment mode (Self-Hosted and SaaS for Centreon Cloud).

For more information on the Centreon Monitoring Agent, visit the dedicated blog.

Centreon, a trusted partner for information system operational excellence achieved unprecedented organic growth in the first half of 2021.

Compared with the first half of 2020:

• New logo bookings increased by 88% year-over-year.
• Software subscriptions bookings increased by 310% year-over-year. 
• Total revenue growth reached 55% year-over-year.
• Added 90 net new customers, resulting in 750 active corporate customers

Centreon is seeing a steady increase in demand for its connected monitoring solutions in all market segments.

In addition to mid-sized companies and MSPs, where Centreon’s presence is already strongly established, the group has seen a strong increase in its contribution to monitoring modernization projects in large French and international groups. In fact, a number of new Centreon projects include the replacement of existing legacy monitoring solutions, as well as supplyinga monitoring layer as part of larger IT reengineering projects aiming to improve the TCO.

In order to support this growth, Centreon has continued to expand its workforce and has recruited 15 employees in the first half of 2021. The organization now has 115 employees after exceeding the 100 mark in 2020. 

Over the same period, Centreon also added 10 new VAR and IT partners to its new Centreon’ON partner program.

Growth was also driven by clients’ increased appetite for the evaluation and acquisition of self-service monitoring solutions. In 2020, Centreon launched Centreon IT-100, a free monitoring offer for environments with fewer than 100 IT devices, which can be downloaded online. June 2021 saw the launch of the Centreon Store, which can now be used to subscribe to Centreon IT Edition 125 and 250 online to monitor up to 125 or up to 250 devices.

Centreon is a global provider of business-aware IT monitoring for always-on operations and performance excellence. The company’s AIOps-ready, business-aware IT monitoring platform is renowned for its unique ability to monitor today’s complex and converging infrastructures, from Cloud-to-Edge. Privately held, Centreon was founded in 2005 with roots in open source software. The company continues to steward a dynamic open source framework and a growing, vibrant global community of 200,000. Today, Centreon is trusted by organisations of all sizes across a wide range of public and private sectors. Its head offices are located in Paris and Toronto, with sales offices in Geneva, Luxembourg and Toulouse. For more information, visit www.centreon.com