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Self-hosted / open sourceNetwork & MonitoringHeadquarters: GB

LibreNMS: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

LibreNMS is an open-source, auto-discovering network monitoring system based on PHP, MySQL and SNMP. It supports many families of network hardware and operating systems, including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper and HP. It also offers customisable alerting by email, IRC and Slack, an API, bandwidth billing based on port usage, distributed polling, mobile apps and integrations with tools such as Oxidized and SmokePing. You install LibreNMS yourself, on Linux with Apache or Nginx, from Docker images or as a virtual machine.

LibreNMS is a community-based project licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. The project has no first-party hosted service; commercial support is available through partners, including Config Services Ltd (UK). Because you run it on your own infrastructure, monitoring data such as device inventory and network topology stays wherever you host it, for example in a data centre in the EU.

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Sovereignty score
79 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (GB)
  • 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-675
    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 9, 2026
Headquarters
GB (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Network & Monitoring
Type
Product
Website
librenms.org ↗

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 LibreNMS

The European alternatives to LibreNMS come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 LibreNMS

LibreNMS is headquartered in GB, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

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

LibreNMS 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 LibreNMS 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 LibreNMS?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to LibreNMS include Centreon, Checkmk and Icinga. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to LibreNMS?

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

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

LibreNMS is headquartered in GB (OTHER) and hosts data in EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 9, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Network & Monitoring

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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