Opsview

Opsview is a software company specializing in enterprise systems monitoring software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Its headquarters is in Reading, England, with a US office in Woburn, Massachusetts. The product provides a single, unified view of IT operations. The company claims that more than 60,000 businesses and service providers use Opsview to manage their network devices, physical and virtual servers, storage and cloud systems.

Opsview offers a free version, Opsview ATOM, which is limited to 25 monitored hosts. It sells Opsview Pro to SMBs and Opsview Enterprise to larger organizations under a proprietary license. As of March 4, 2015, Opsview Core, the version formerly available via the terms of the GPL, has been discontinued.

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Technology

Opsview is built with the following technologies:

Nagios Core: Provides the core set of monitoring and alerting capabilities in Opsview. Sometimes referred to as Opsview's monitoring engine.
Perl: The primary programming language used for Opsview
Catalyst: A MVC Web application framework used for building the web application
ExtJS: a JavaScript library used for building the dashboard in Opsview Pro and Opsview Enterprise
MySQL: A relational database used for configuration, runtime and data warehouse databases
Net-SNMP: Provides SNMP support
RRDtool: Provides lightweight graphing

Opsview runs on Linux with official support for the following distributions: CentOS, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu.

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Project history

2003 - Project started by James Peel as collection of extensions to Nagios Core
2004 - Opsview 1.0 released
2005 - Opsview 1.5 released, Ton Voon joins team as development lead
2006 - Opsview 2.0 released incorporating Catalyst web framework and Opsview middleware
2007 - Opsview made freely available for download, community established. Development continues on Opsview 2.x
2008 - Opsview voted Best System Management Tool at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. Opsview acquired by Opsera Limited.
2009 - Opsview 3.0 released. Community and Enterprise editions launched. Opsview Community 3.5 released
2010 - Opsview Enterprise 3.6 released (May); Opsview Community 3.7 released (June); Opsview Enterprise 3.8 released (July); Opsview Community 3.9 (September); Opsview Enterprise 3.10 (November)
2011 - Opsview Community 3.11 released (January), Opsview Enterprise 3.12 (April), Opsview Community 3.13 (July), Opsview Mobile (August), Opsview Enterprise 3.14 (October)
2012 - Opsview Enterprise 4.0 (April). Opsview Pro announced (April), Opsview Core announced + Opsview On-Demand (May)
2012 - Opsview Enterprise and Opsview Pro 4.1 released (July)
2012 - Opsview Mobile for iOS released (August)
2012 - Opsview Enterprise and Opsview Pro 4.2 released (November) includes 'Ultra-fast Autodiscovery'
2013 - Opsview Core 20130212 released including overhaul of core engine (leveraging Nagios 4 Core code) and a completely rewritten database component (NDOUtils) to offer significant performance gains (February)
2013 - Opsview Enterprise and Opsview Pro 4.3 released featuring VMware ESX/vSphere autodiscovery; agentless Windows auto discovery; out-of-the-box monitors for enterprise stacks like Windows Server 2013, Oracle RDBMS, Netapp ONTAP Storage, VMware vSphere, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, MS SQL; Multi-master dashboard views; and Nagios 4 integration (April)
2013 - Opsview Enterprise and Opsview Pro 4.4 released including NetFlow analytics for Opsview Enterprise, Service Desk integration with OTRS and Salesforce Service Cloud, out-of-the-box support for Amazon CloudWatch and improved multi-tenancy (July)
2014 - Opsview Enterprise and Opsview Pro 4.5 released, featuring Business Service Monitoring, auto-discovery scheduling and improved reports (April)
2014 - Opsview Mobile - New release of iOS app, and an entirely redesigned android app launched, supporting push notifications.
2014 - Opsview Enterprise and Opsview Pro 4.6 released, including new security wallet functionality, sFlow support and support for 3 new operating systems. Also includes Cisco IPSLA monitoring.
2015 - Opsview Atom launched, including dashboards, security wallet, autodiscovery, business service monitoring and SNMP trap processing, free for up to 25 devices.
2015 - Opsview Monitor 5.0 released, including new dashboards, new Graph Center, added configuration capabilities, and a new Knowledge Center.
2016 - Opsview Monitor 5.1 released, including new My Links shared URLs, Change Log, Host Status within the Problem View, and ability to set Homepages.
2016 - Opsview Monitor 5.2 released, including new Opspack Marketplace, significant performance improvements and redesigned Mass Actions.
2017 - Opsview Monitor 5.3 released, including full integration with InfluxDB as well as new Opspacks HAProxy, MongoDB and Varnish Cache.
2017 - Opsview Monitor Mobile launched - New iOS and Android apps released, featuring an entirely redesigned user interface.
2017 - Opsview Monitor 5.4 released, including unified Business Service Monitoring View, cloud-scale extensibility (Google Cloud, AWS), plus a range of Opspack plugins to use.

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Awards

Opsview won the 2008 LinuxWorld Product Excellence award for Best System Management Tool.

Opsview Enterprise 3.10 won the 2011 Techworld One to Watch award at their annual awards ceremony

In 2013 Opsview were "Highly Commended" in the finals of the Thames Valley Business Award for Best Company To Work For (under 100 employees).

Reviews

Opsview Community Edition review at Techworld.com

Conferences

Opsview 3 was presented in a Lightning Talk at FOSDEM 2009
Ton Voon spoke about Opsview at the The Open Source Monitoring Conference on Nagios in October 2009
Neil Ferguson spoke at Dreamforce about Opsview in November 2013.