Xymon

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free

Open source

Yes

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2005

Status

Active

Website

xymon.sourceforge.io

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Server and infrastructure monitoring checklist

7 of 10 confirmed in Xymon's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Infrastructure.

• + Host agent Yes
• ? Agentless checks Not confirmed
• + Windows hosts Yes
• ? Auto-discovery Not confirmed
• + Process and service checks Yes
• + Log collection Yes
• ? Containers Not confirmed
• + Alerting with notifications Yes
• + Dashboards Yes
• + Plugins or integrations Yes

Windows via the BBWin client linked from xymon.com; network tests are protocol checks (http, smtp...).

Checked against: xymon.sourceforge.io, xymon.com

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