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OpenNMS 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

OpenNMS
OpenNMS
4.9
(9)

Pricing

Starting at $44,100.00 per year

About OpenNMS

OpenNMS is an application performance management software designed to help businesses in the healthcare, retail, IT, energy, finance, education, government and other sectors monitor the performance of remote and local networks. The platform enables administrators to analyze network traffic, discover the topology and identify faults across applications.

Managers can receive notifications regarding asynchronous events, view resource graphs and track node status on a unified interface. OpenNMS allows teams to analyze the root cause and impact of hierarchy across business services. Additionally, operators can create custom graphs and group similar network alarms using AI-enabled tools.

It offers an application programming interface (API), which lets businesses integrate the system with several third-party applications including, Jira, Drools, Apache ActiveMQ, Elasticsearch and Apache Kafka. OpenNMS is available for free and on a subscription basis and support is extended via phone, email, knowledge base, chat, forum and an online contact form.

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OpenNMS Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $44,100.00 per year
Free Trial
Free Version

Essential

$44,100.00

flat rate, per year

No plan information available

    Premier

    $59,500.00

    flat rate, per year

    No plan information available

      OpenNMS Features

      • Popular features found in Network Monitoring
        Bandwidth Monitoring
        Baseline Manager
        Data Visualization
        Device Auto Discovery
        Incident Management
        IP Address Monitoring
        Network Analysis
        Patch Management
        Real-Time Data
        Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
        Threshold Alerts
        Uptime Reporting
      • More features of OpenNMS
        Activity Dashboard
        Alerts/Notifications
        API
        Capacity Management
        Capacity Planning
        Configuration Management
        Continuous Monitoring
        CPU Monitoring
        Dashboard
        Dashboard Creation
        Database Monitoring
        Diagnostic Tools
        Downtime Tracking
        Email Alerts
        Event Logs
        Inventory Management
        Issue Management
        Issue Tracking
        IT Asset Management
        Monitoring
        Multi-Device Support
        Network Resource Management
        Performance Metrics
        Performance Monitoring
        Real-Time Analytics
        Real-Time Monitoring
        Real-Time Notifications
        Real-Time Reporting
        Real-Time Updates
        Remote Monitoring & Management
        Reporting/Analytics
        Reporting & Statistics
        Root Cause Analysis
        Server Monitoring
        Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
        SSL Security
        Status Tracking
        Third-Party Integrations
        Transaction Monitoring
        Trend Analysis
        Troubleshooting
        Virtual Machine Monitoring

      OpenNMS User Reviews

      Overall Rating

      4.9

      Ratings Breakdown

      5

      89%

      4

      11%

      3

      0%

      2

      0%

      1

      0%

      Secondary Ratings

      Ease of Use

      3.9

      Value for money

      4.9

      Customer support

      4.4

      Functionality

      4.7

      Have you used OpenNMS and would like to share your experience with others?

      AL

      Alan L.

      Verified reviewer

      Used unspecified for less than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed February 2016

      Fast, Reliable, and Free Monitoring

      5

      OpenNMS has had its ups and downs between versions, but has always been reliable and free monitoring. There are a lot of features that can be enabled with OpenNMS through the browser, but some will require having to open a text editor and manually creating or editing a text file. While there is a learning curve to this monitoring system if you've had experience with other monitoring systems, there is a very large support group that is always helpful.

      Ratings Breakdown

      3
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      5
      Customer support
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      Pros:
      Easy to use after configuration. Feature-rich. Supports escalations and different contact groups.
      Cons:
      Not the easiest to configure for multiple groups supported.

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      PM

      Pablo M.

      Verified reviewer

      Higher Education

      10000+ employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Reviewed November 2023

      OpenNMS is overall a great product

      5

      I have been using OpenNMS for years now. The fact that it is Open Source and has a wide community support is a big plus for me. We use OpenNMS daily as a powerful tool to proactively monitor our network. It has the flexibility and it is customizable to fit our needs. I highly recommend this product for network engineers who want to closely monitor their equipment, regardless of the network vendor they use.

      Ratings Breakdown

      3
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      2
      Customer support
      5
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      OpenNMS has substantial support for traps and notifications based on those traps. We use it with great success on our network to get instant notifications on hardware failures, critical links down, etc. OpenNMS excels in providing a comprehensive collection of network graphs (including CPU, temperature, VPN active sessions, and much more) that we can display in beautiful panels using Grafana. We also use the API extensively to add/remove devices from OpenNMS without having to manually perform the task and keeping all monitored devices in sync with all our other network tools.
      Cons:
      I have to admin that OpenNMS has a learning curve, and it should have more configuration parameters available on the web interface.

      Reasons for choosing OpenNMS

      OpenNMS is hand down much better than other products for monitoring and alerting on multi-vendor network environment.

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      VR

      Verified
      Reviewer

      Hospital & Health Care

      10000+ employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Reviewed December 2023

      OpenNMS Review

      4

      Ratings Breakdown

      3
      Ease of use
      4
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      OpenNMS is very powerful and customizable.
      Cons:
      A lot of the configurations are difficult and need to be done by editing XML files.

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      DS

      David S.

      Verified reviewer

      Information Technology and Services

      1001-5000 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Reviewed November 2023

      Great monitoring platform for any size network

      5

      Used as the core software to provide network, server, and application monitoring as an MSP.

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      5
      Customer support
      5
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      The out of the box experience covers many scenarios and all the right integration and customization layers are well thought out.
      Cons:
      It would be nice if it scaled horizontally a bit better especially in the areas of polling and gathering of performance monitoring data. Multi-tenancy is not strong.

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      UM

      Udo M.

      Verified reviewer

      Health, Wellness and Fitness

      501-1000 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Reviewed November 2023

      Reliable with good performance

      5

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      4
      Customer support
      4
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      I like event-translator and provisioning because i can fit opennms to our needs in communcation to our other tools
      Cons:
      Difficult file-based configuration of some features Upgrade to new versions needs configuration by hand of files

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      BB

      Brett B.

      Verified reviewer

      Telecommunications

      10000+ employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Reviewed November 2023

      review of OpenNMS for use for performance monitoring

      5

      Great system once over the learning curve

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      5
      Customer support
      5
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      vendor agnostic snmp gathering system. works good for that
      Cons:
      initial configuration.

      Reasons for choosing OpenNMS

      have used it in the past and am familiar

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      AK

      Achut K.

      Verified reviewer

      Health, Wellness and Fitness

      1001-5000 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Reviewed January 2024

      Systems monitor

      5

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      5
      Customer support
      5
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      Easy setup and monitoring all key area networks
      Cons:
      Good for monitoring for server management.

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      RN

      Rostand N.

      Verified reviewer

      Information Technology and Services

      11-50 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Reviewed November 2023

      OpenNMS efficiency

      5

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      5
      Customer support
      5
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      I really like the way opennms is evolving, the possibility of customizing it and interfacing it with other solutions.
      Cons:
      It's not easy for me to get the hang of, and it takes a lot of time and patience.

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      RM

      Robert M.

      Verified reviewer

      Computer Software

      Self-Employed

      Used unspecified for unspecified

      Review source

      Reviewed September 2017

      5

      Ratings Breakdown

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