Opsview

Opsview is a global software company specializing in IT infrastructure and Cloud monitoring software for on-premises, cloud and hybrid IT environments. Its headquarters is in Reading, England. Opsview is a modern, scalable monitoring platform that enables digital transformation. Its premier product, Opsview Cloud, provides a single, unified view of IT operations while utilizing Opsview monitoring best practices and experts. Opsview is trusted by hundreds of businesses, government organizations and service providers globally. Customers include Sky, Cisco, IBM, Comcast, AXA, PayPal, BT, Norfolk Southern, CIT, Fujitsu and HMRC.

Opsview
Industrysoftware
HeadquartersReading, England
Area served
Global
ProductsOpsview Cloud and Opsview Monitor
Websiteopsview.com

Opsview Cloud and Opsview Monitor are proprietary software. Opsview Monitor is available to organizations that need to deploy on-premises, it's suitable for SMB through to Enterprise organizations and starts at 50 hosts through to tens of thousands. Opsview Cloud is available to all organizations and MSPs, starting at 150 hosts and scaling to tens of thousands.

Technology

Opsview is built with the following technologies:

  • Python/Cython: The primary programming languages used for Opsview Monitor.
  • Golang: Primary programming language used for Opsview Monitor Opspacks.
  • Java: Programming language used for Opsview Monitor reporting.
  • React Native: Javascript framework used in Opsview Monitor Mobile.
  • Perl: Secondary programming language used for Opsview Monitor.
  • ExtJS: a JavaScript library used for building dashboards.
  • Node.js: a JavaScript server-side runtime environment.
  • Angular: a TypeScript-based, open source, front end web application platform.
  • RabbitMQ: Message-passing component.
  • etcd: Key-value store for state preservation.
  • InfluxDB: Time-series database.
  • CouchDB: Distributed NoSQL database.
  • MySQL: Relational database used for configuration, runtime and data warehouse databases.

Opsview runs on Linux with official support for the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Oracle Linux 7.[1] Opsview Monitor 6.0 (released 27 November, 2018) uses the open source Ansible automation framework for deployment and lifecycle management.

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.
  • 2018 - Opsview Monitor 6.0 Early Adopter (EA) released, replacing Nagios with scalable microservices architecture.
  • 2018 - Opsview Monitor 6.0 released, with re-engineering WebUI and Ansible-based deployment/lifecycle management.
  • 2019 - Opsview Cloud launched, with all of the product features from Opsview Monitor coupled with the monitoring best practices and Opsview expertise delivered from the Cloud.
  • 2020 - Opsview announced a strategic partnership with UKCloud to deliver joint solutions to the UK Public Sector.

Awards
  • Opsview won the 2008 LinuxWorld Product Excellence award for Best System Management Tool.[2][3]
  • Opsview Enterprise 3.10 won the 2011 Techworld One to Watch award at their annual awards ceremony[4]
  • In 2013 Opsview were "Highly Commended" in the finals of the Thames Valley Business Award for Best Company To Work For (under 100 employees).[5]

Reviews
  • Opsview Community Edition review at Techworld.com[6]

References
  1. "Supported Platforms and Software (Opsview 3.1)". Opsview Project Team. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
  2. "LinuxWorld 2008 Product Excellence Awards". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
  3. "LinuxWorld 2008: LinuxWorld.com and IDG World Expo Announce Product Excellence Award Winners at LinuxWorld and Next Generation Data Center Conference & Expo". Techshow Wire. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
  4. "Techworld Awards winners announced". Techworld. Retrieved 2011-06-30.
  5. "Thames Valley Business Award Finalists". The Business Magazine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
  6. "Opsview Community Edition (Techworld.com)". Techworld.com. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
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