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Centreon: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Centreon is an IT monitoring and observability platform for hybrid environments. Infrastructure Monitoring covers hosts, networks, cloud, containers, OT and business applications through connectors and automatic discovery. Log Management collects logs natively through OpenTelemetry without a proprietary agent, and Experience Monitoring combines synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring and load testing. Infrastructure Monitoring runs on the customer's own infrastructure or as SaaS through Centreon Cloud.

Centreon was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Paris, France. The monitoring engine is open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, while commercial editions add the full connector catalogue, support and services. In November 2025 the investment firm Sixth Street made a strategic investment; according to the announcement, the founders and management retain board and capital control. Log Management data is hosted in France on the OUTSCALE trusted cloud, and the vendor describes Infrastructure Monitoring as offering European hosting. Self-hosting keeps monitoring data in the organisation's own infrastructure.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 1, 2026
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalAMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryNetwork & Monitoring
TypeProduct
Websitecentreon.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Centreon

The European alternatives to Centreon come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Centreon

Centreon is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Centreon scores best on data residency.

Centreon is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Centreon together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Centreon?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Centreon include Checkmk, collectd and DataMiner (Skyline Communications). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Centreon?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Centreon include Checkmk, collectd, Healthchecks.io and Icinga. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Centreon GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Centreon is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Centreon an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 1, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
docs.centreon.com/cloud/security/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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Network & Monitoring: Network monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, log management and observability. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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