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OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) is an open-source distribution for installing and maintaining a Nagios-compatible monitoring system. It integrates into an existing Linux system as a single package and bundles components such as the Naemon core, the Thruk web interface, Grafana graphs and the Monitoring Plugins. The software runs on the organisation's own servers, and the project publishes a new stable release roughly every six months, with nightly builds for testing.

OMD is developed by ConSol Software GmbH in Munich and is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. Because it is installed and operated by the customer, monitoring data stays on infrastructure the organisation controls, and the operator decides where that infrastructure is hosted. For a European customer, this means the software can run without a foreign cloud provider in the chain, and the open licence allows the code to be inspected and adapted.

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 12, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution)

The European alternatives to OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution)

OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) is headquartered in DE 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 OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) scores best on data residency.

OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) 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 OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) 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 OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) include Akvorado, Centreon and Checkmk. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution)?

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

Is OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

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

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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