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openITCOCKPIT vs. PRTG Comparison – Monitor More Efficiently, Budget Smarter

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Trusted by IT companies worldwide

openITCOCKPIT has helped organizations of all sizes, from growing startups to large enterprises, gain full visibility into their infrastructure. With its flexible architecture, powerful monitoring capabilities, and transparent cost structure, teams rely on openITCOCKPIT to detect issues early, streamline operations, and make more informed decisions without unnecessary complexity or overhead.

Migration from PRTG to openITCOCKPIT
Includes 4 hours of FREE consultation

In addition to mass rollouts of hosts and services—as well as imports from CMDBs or CSV files—openITCOCKPIT offers a true highlight for PRTG users: the import module allows PRTG systems not only to be seamlessly integrated, but also enables their sensors to be directly mapped and migrated to openITCOCKPIT services—making the transition easier and faster than ever before!

That’s why switching to openITCOCKPIT is worth it.

  • Price Advantage – Save up to 40% on licensing costs compared to a comparable PRTG solution
  • Price Stability – No surprising price adjustments or license fee increases
  • Cost Efficiency – Significantly more affordable while offering a broader scope of features
  • 100% Open Source – No hidden costs, full transparency, and community support
  • Comprehensive Feature Set – Infrastructure, application, SAP, distributed, and umbrella monitoring, plus business modules
  • Unlimited Scalability – Grows with your business, with no limits on the number of devices
  • Flexible Architecture – Modular design, allowing for custom adaptations and private branding
  • Versatile Monitoring Mechanisms – SNMP, REST API, SOAP, JMX, SAP-RFC, and many more—both agentless and agent-based
  • Simple Migration from PRTG – Existing sensors can be directly mapped to and migrated as openITCOCKPIT services

Your Special Advantage

By switching to openITCOCKPIT, you benefit from a massive feature boost—including 4 hours of free consulting.

In doing so, you also significantly reduce your licensing costs.

A quick message to s.kraus@testwp.allgeier-its.com is all it takes.

Stephan Kraus
Service Line Manager, Open Source Solutions
Stephan has been your point of contact for 20+ years

Further Advantages of
openITCOCKPIT over PRTG

Advantage
openITCOCKPIT
PRTG
Licensing Model
100% Open Source with a free Community Edition and an affordable Enterprise Edition.
Closed source, with high acquisition and operating costs.
Hersteller & Ownership
German Manufacturer – Development, support, and hosting expertise from Germany, with a focus on European data protection and security standards.
Originally a German manufacturer, now under American ownership—potential dependence on international corporate decisions and pricing strategies.
Price Security
Stable Prices and Licensing Costs – No Surprises
Surprising Price Increases & License Changes
Price Security
Virtually unlimited
Limit at approximately 500 devices
Feature Set
Infrastrukturmonitoring, Applikationsmornitoring, SAP-Monitoring, Disributed Monitoring, Umbrella-, Multimandantenmonitoring, uvm
Primarily infrastructure monitoring, basic application monitoring
Monitoring Mechanisms
SNMP, PowerShell, HTTP, REST-API, SOAP, JMX, SAP-RFC uvm
Primarily SNMP, HTTP, and PowerShell
Agentless & Agent-based Monitoring
The best of both worlds: agentless monitoring supporting a wide range of protocols, and agent-based monitoring via a proprietary agent featuring advanced security capabilities and a broad spectrum of functions.
Typically agentless, with the option of remote probes for Windows systems.
Custom Branding
Fully customizable color schemes and logos for your corporate identity
Highly predefined, barely customizable
Architecture
Modular design: monitoring adapts to specific requirements. Tailored development is possible, ensuring maximum flexibility.
Monolithic system; specific customizations are not possible or entail immense costs.
Support
Aktive Open-Source-Community + Enterprise-Support
Commercial support only
Preis
Significant cost savings with an expanded scope of services
Significantly higher costs with a reduced scope of services

About openITCOCKPIT

openITCOCKPIT is a modular, open-source monitoring framework that provides companies of all sizes with a centralized view of their entire infrastructure.

While PRTG covers only the realm of infrastructure and application monitoring, openITCOCKPIT goes far beyond that. In addition to classic infrastructure and application monitoring, its standard feature set includes distributed monitoring, SAP monitoring, Umbrella monitoring, and multi-tenant monitoring, as well as business modules such as SLA reporting, event correlation, and flexible import functions—all with nearly unlimited scalability.

About Allgeier IT Services

We are one of the leading IT service providers for medium-sized and large enterprises.

Our focus lies on future-proof infrastructure concepts as well as digital solutions that positively impact our clients’ productivity.

We understand exactly what matters to you, speak your language, and engage with you as equals. As your partner, we aim to achieve long-term success together with you. Within our Open Source Solutions division, our ITIL-certified ITSM experts provide solutions for monitoring, ticketing systems, and IT documentation for large mid-sized clients and major corporations.

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