openITCOCKPIT

Open source monitoring platform

  • Naemon compatible
  • Prometheus integration included
  • Agent for Linux, macOS and Windows
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Trusted by

  • GE Healthcare
  • Lindt
  • ÖAMTC
  • Hela Gewürzwerk Hermann Laue
  • Stabilo
  • Deutsche Amphibolin-Werke
  • Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH
  • Wolf Theiss
  • Deutsche BKK
  • Stadtwerke Gießen
  • Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt
  • Flemming Dental
  • regio iT
  • Ifm electronic
  • Vitakraft
  • Evonik Industries AG

Batteries Included, Comes with everything you need to get started!

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Hasslefree

Configuration and visualisation web frontend for Nagios, Naemon and Prometheus including JSON API and user permissions

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Monitoring Agent

openITCOCKPIT provides an own Monitoring Agent for Windows, Linux and macOS. In addition thousands of community plugins are available.

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Updates

openITCOCKPIT receives frequently feature and security updates. Updates are seamlessly handled by the distribution's package manager.

Monitor everything

openITCOCKPIT is a modern monitoring framework designed to monitor everything. Baremetal servers, virtual machines, network devices, applications, containers, cloud environments or Internet of things - openITCOCKPIT got you covered.

  • Operating systems
  • Cloud
  • Containers
  • Applications
  • SNMP
  • IoT

Nagios Core compatible

openITCOCKPIT makes use of Naemon as monitoring engine and is 100% compatible with Nagios. Beside a huge set of pre-configured templates and plugins the open source community provides thousands of plugins to pick from.

  • Scheduled maintenance
  • Alerting
  • Community plugins

Prometheus integration

Combine traditional status monitoring with metrics based monitoring. Get one central monitoring server for traditional IT infrastructure up to Industry 4.0.

  • Seamless integration
  • Mange exporters
  • Create alert rules

Graphical configuration

openITCOCKPIT has configuration GUI especially for Prometheus, so you don't have to bother with PromQL too much.

  • Integrated into reports
  • High check frequency
  • Mix monitoring methods
  • PromQL

openITCOCKPIT Monitoring Agent

Single binary cross-platform monitoring agent for Windows, Linux and macOS. Out-of-the-box the openITCOCKPIT Monitoring Agent will monitor CPU, memory and disk usage, network interfaces, system services, running processes, temperature sensors, QEMU and Docker containers.

  • Encrypted communication
  • Pull and push mode
  • 100% compatible to Nagios Plugin API
  • Zero dependencies
  • DEB, RPM and PKG packages
  • MSI installer for Windows

Security by design

Both openITCOCKPIT and the openITCOCKPIT Monitoring Agent are using TLS/SSL by default.

  • HTTPS
  • TLS Client Authentication
  • Frequently updates

Customizable Dashboards

Users can create custom dashboards and share them with their colleagues. Traffic lights, Tachometers, tiles and tables are available to visualize the current state.

  • Multiple tabs
  • Share with colleagues
  • Pre-configured widgets
  • Auto refresh
  • Lockable
  • Big-Screen ready

Grafana integration

Grafana has become the de facto standard for dashboarding and charting and is therefore part of openITCOCKPIT by default. openITCOCKPIT will automatically generate a Grafana dashboard for each host. In addition, users can create custom Grafana dashboards via the openITCOCKPIT interface.

  • Pre-configured
  • Auto dashboards
  • User defined dashboards

Reporting and state history

openITCOCKPIT provides different availability and SLA reports which can be generated manually or on a scheduled manner.

  • SLA
  • Reports per mail
  • PDF, HTML and CSV
  • Scheduled maintenance
  • Considers holidays
  • Adjustable

Event history

openITCOCKPIT keeps a history of all events for later analyses and reporting possibilities.

All events can be displayed in a timeline which visualize when which event got received and which action it triggered.

  • State history
  • Downtime / maintenance history
  • Notification history
  • Timeline
  • Fast databases access

Event correlation

Correlate events to a business service, visualize of complex infrastructure and reduce the amount of alerts.

  • Correlation of events
  • Logical operators supported
  • Business oriented monitoring
  • Alert management
  • Wizard based

Maps

Create custom maps with our WYSIWYG map editor or keep everything tracked with our automatically generated status map.

  • Grid system
  • Charts, Gauges, Tachos and more
  • Upload icons and backgrounds
  • Parent child relations
  • Status information

Integrations

Connect your monitoring, team notifications and service management. Find the integrations that fit your workflow.

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Microsoft Teams

Send monitoring notifications to your team in Microsoft Teams.

LibreNMS

Bring device, port and service status from LibreNMS into your central monitoring.

OpManager

Collect monitoring status and performance data from ManageEngine OpManager.

Applications Manager

Collect application status and performance data from ManageEngine Applications Manager.

PRTG

Bring PRTG sensor status and performance data into your central monitoring.

iTop

Import infrastructure objects from your iTop CMDB for monitoring.

Proxmox VE

Import and monitor virtual machines and LXC containers through the Proxmox VE API.

FlowChief

Collect status data from FlowChief for central monitoring.

Icinga 2

Collect monitoring results and performance data from your Icinga 2 environment.

Jira

Create and close Jira issues for monitoring alerts.

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Community Edition

Start for free. No host or service limits.
Install the openITCOCKPIT Community Edition on your own infrastructure for free and monitor as many hosts and services as you like. Extend your monitoring with free community modules whenever you need them. From a homelab to a company network, your monitoring grows with you. Open source, self-hosted and without license fees for the Community Edition.

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What users say about openITCOCKPIT

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Recent Blog Posts

New about IT monitoring from the experts behind openITCOCKPIT.

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  • 30.09.2026

openITCOCKPIT 5.8.0 released

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  • 01.09.2026

openITCOCKPIT 5.7.0 released

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  • 03.08.2026

Drop Ubuntu Jammy, Debian Bookworm and PHP 8.1 support