Opsview Monitor: Monitoring Ledger 2026

Part of the Infrastructure Monitoring Ledger (edition 2026-10-04). How the scores work: methodology.

Snapshot

Tier: Mid-market
Owner: ITRS Group (majority TA Associates, private equity, since 2021; Montagu minority); ITRS bought Opsview in 2018
Licence model: Proprietary annual subscription by monitored-host band; no free edition since 2013
Products scored: Opsview Monitor 6.x self-hosted (Enterprise) with Business Service Monitoring and Flow Collector; Opsview Cloud not scored
Latest release: 6.8.3, 2026-04-21
Next signal: More MCP tool endpoints and ML baselines, KubeVirt and Proxmox work, FIPS 140-3 validation; no dated release announced
Archetype: Rebuilt Nagios heir, PE-owned
Evidence grade: B. Release notes come almost entirely from one vendor knowledge-base page; several 'today' claims (FIPS, vault, KubeVirt, OpenStack) are not tied to a release and were discounted.

Scorecard

Dimension	Score	Direction
Capability today	74.6 / 100	higher is better
Momentum since end of 2022	+2.0 points	higher is better
Credibility	16.5 / 25	higher is better
Commercial risk	14.5 / 25	lower is better
Technical lock-in	13.0 / 25	lower is better
Integrator fit	10.5 / 20	higher is better
AI leverage	8.5 / 20	higher is better
Ledger Index	58.3 / 100	balanced weights

Capability by domain

Scores 0 to 5 against fixed anchors; total is weighted to 100.

Domain (weight)	2016	2019	2022	Today
Server, virtualization and storage (12)	3	3.5	4	4
Network monitoring (12)	3	3	3.5	3.5
Application and service monitoring (10)	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5
Data collection and scale (12)	3	4	4	4
Alerting and event management (12)	3	3.5	4	4
Visualisation and reporting (8)	3	3	3.5	3.5
Logs and traces (8)	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5
Automation and remediation (8)	3	3.5	4	4
Security and compliance (8)	3	3.5	4	4
New-platform support (VMware exit) (10)	1	2	3	4
Total / 100	56.2	64.6	72.6	74.6

Year by year: 2016: 56.2 · 2017: 58.0 · 2018: 58.0 · 2019: 64.6 · 2020: 66.6 · 2021: 69.8 · 2022: 72.6 · 2023: 72.6 · 2024: 74.6 · 2025: 74.6 · 2026: 74.6

What moved the score

Year	Domain	Change	Points	Trigger
2017	Automation and remediation	3 → 3.5	+0.8	5.4 (2017): ServiceNow connector; 6.x official Ansible roles
2017	New-platform support (VMware exit)	1 → 1.5	+1.0	5.4 (2017): AWS CloudWatch and Azure Opspacks
2019	Alerting and event management	3 → 3.5	+1.2	6.2 (2019): notification profiles, on-call rotations, PagerDuty, Slack and Teams webhooks, BSM-impact alerts
2019	Data collection and scale	3 → 4	+2.4	6.0/6.2 (2019): collector clusters over RabbitMQ, InfluxDB, automatic collector failover, 100,000+ checks
2019	New-platform support (VMware exit)	1.5 → 2	+1.0	6.1/6.2 (2019): Kubernetes Opspack GA and GCP Opspack; AHV only via community scripts
2019	Security and compliance	3 → 3.5	+0.8	6.x (2019): mTLS between microservices and collectors, audit log of configuration edits
2019	Server, virtualization and storage	3 → 3.5	+1.2	6.2 (2019): Kubernetes Opspack GA, Docker, IPMI, iDRAC and iLO hardware Opspacks
2020	Network monitoring	3 → 3.5	+1.2	6.3 (2020): Flow Collector GA for NetFlow v5/v9, sFlow and IPFIX with top talkers
2020	Security and compliance	3.5 → 4	+0.8	6.3 (2020): SAML 2.0 SSO; 6.4 adds Azure AD; FIPS, vault and air-gap claims unverified
2021	New-platform support (VMware exit)	2 → 3	+2.0	6.4 (2021): Nutanix AHV Opspack GA via Prism REST API
2021	Server, virtualization and storage	3.5 → 4	+1.2	6.4 (2021): Nutanix AHV Opspack GA; Pure, PowerStore and Nimble storage Opspacks
2022	Alerting and event management	3.5 → 4	+1.2	6.5 (2022): rule-based alert storm suppression; bi-directional ServiceNow and Jira ticketing
2022	Automation and remediation	3.5 → 4	+0.8	6.5 (2022): webhooks drive Ansible AWX and Rundeck runbooks; tag-based host sync; REST API v2 GA 2020
2022	Visualisation and reporting	3 → 3.5	+0.8	6.5 (2022): flow dashlets, geographic maps; capacity reports need separate ITRS Capacity Planner
2024	New-platform support (VMware exit)	3 → 4	+2.0	6.7 (2024): Proxmox VE Opspack GA; KubeVirt, OpenShift Virtualization and OpenStack claims undated

Direction, 2023 to 2026

Each item carries one theme and one driver (V vision, C customer need, M market window, U upstream, P portfolio).

Date	Item	Theme	Driver
2023-05	Plans simplified to Opsview Cloud and Opsview Enterprise subscriptions	D12 Packaging and licensing	M
2023-11	6.6: OpenTelemetry metrics ingestion preview	D3 Applications and services	U
2023-11	6.6: RHEL 9 and Rocky Linux 9 support	D4 Collection and scale	C
2023-11	6.6: hardened mTLS between services	D9 Security	C
2024-10	6.7: Proxmox VE Opspack GA	D1 Server and virtualization	M
2024-10	6.7: deeper ITRS Geneos event bridge	D11 Ecosystem openness	P
2025-04	6.7.2: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Opspack, OpenSSL 3.2	D2 Network	C
2025-09	6.8.0: ML anomaly baselines GA	D7 AI-assisted operations	M
2025-09	6.8.0: NVIDIA GPU Opspack	D1 Server and virtualization	M
2025-09	6.8.0: root-cause correlation across BSM trees	D5 Alerting and events	C
2026-04	6.8.3: MCP server GA	D7 AI-assisted operations	M
2026-04	6.8.3: VMware-exit migration assessment dashboards	D6 Visualisation and reporting	M
2026-04	6.8.3: sub-second streaming telemetry pipeline	D4 Collection and scale	C

Centre of gravity: Collection and scale (2), Server and virtualization (2), AI-assisted operations (2)
Driver mix: Vision 0%, Customer need 38%, Market window 46%, Upstream 8%, Portfolio 8%

Credibility: 16.5 / 25

Criterion	Score	Basis
Cadence	3	One or two minor releases a year since 2019 (6.6 2023, 6.7 2024, 6.8 2025, 6.8.3 2026); no published rhythm
Roadmap transparency	3	Public knowledge-base release notes and lifecycle matrix; direction via webinars and client briefings
Say-do	4.5	7 of 8 tracked promises GA within 12 months; NVIDIA GPU Opspack shipped 18 months late (2025)
Velocity	3	One or two substantive capabilities per release, for example Proxmox in 6.7, anomaly baselines and MCP in 6.8
Lifecycle stability	3	Opsview 6 rewrite (2019) replaced Nagios Core; stable since, with RHEL 8 to 9 platform moves

Say-do record, 2023 to 2026: Research ledger: 6 of 6 promises shipped (RHEL 9, Geneos bridge, Proxmox, anomaly baselines, MCP, VMware-exit dashboards), lags 0 to 4 months. AI evidence adds the NVIDIA GPU Opspack, 18 months late. Single-source dating.

Commercial risk: 14.5 / 25 (lower is better)

Criterion	Score	Basis
Price and licence volatility	1.5	2023-05: plans cut to two subscription tiers (Cloud and Enterprise); no metric change recorded
Purchase constraints	4	Subscription only, host bands from 500 hosts; no perpetual or free option
Channel and access	2.5	Documentation public; prices quote-only; trial and partner programme not documented
Owner stability	4	Private-equity owned: ITRS bought Opsview 2018, TA Associates majority stake 2021
Cost of staying supported	2.5	Support and updates inside the subscription; no paid-for-formerly-free change recorded

Security record of the product itself: None found in the KEV catalogue (the security record). Not exploited: CVE-2022-30283 authenticated command injection (fixed 6.4, 2021) and CVE-2021-36367 Windows agent privilege escalation (agent 6.3.2).

Technical lock-in: 13.0 / 25 (lower is better)

Criterion	Score	Basis
Formats	3.5	Proprietary Opspack bundles and BSM models in MySQL; metrics in InfluxDB
Export path	3	REST API v2 covers configuration; BSM trees and flow settings must be re-authored elsewhere
Stack coupling	3.5	Own microservices, RabbitMQ, InfluxDB and agent required; check_* plugins and SNMP/WMI reusable
Hardware / cloud coupling	0.5	Any hardware on RHEL; air-gapped install supported; SaaS optional
Skills and tooling coupling	2.5	Nagios plugin skills transfer; Opspack authoring is product-specific

Integrator fit: 10.5 / 20

Criterion	Score	Basis
Partner programme openness	2	No partner programme described in the research; sold inside the ITRS portfolio
Multi-tenancy and self-service	3.5	Built-in tenancies isolate users, dashboards and notifications for MSPs; no billing
API and infrastructure-as-code	3.5	REST API v2 with OpenAPI (2020) and official Ansible roles; no Terraform provider recorded
Skills and certification	1.5	No certification programme recorded

AI leverage: 8.5 / 20

Strand	Today	Latest step
AIOps on monitoring data	2.5	2025: 6.8.0 (2025): ML anomaly baselines GA; NVIDIA GPU Opspack
AI platform stack	0	none
AI-assisted operations	2	2025: 6.8.0 (2025): anomaly detection GA; no natural-language assistant
Agent openness	4	2026: 6.8.3 (2026): MCP server GA exposing health and BSM states

AI say-do: 2 announced, 2 GA (anomaly baselines on time; GPU Opspack 18 months late), 0 preview, 0 pending, 0 dropped. The AI is statistical anomaly baselining plus an MCP server; there is no LLM assistant in the product.

Reading

Opsview is a Nagios-derived monitor that ITRS rebuilt in 2019 as Go and Python microservices on InfluxDB, and it is now adding hypervisor breadth (Nutanix AHV 2021, Proxmox 2024) and AI hooks (anomaly baselines 2025, an MCP server 2026). The record shows one or two solid releases a year and promises that mostly shipped on time, with business-service views and multi-tenancy as long-standing strengths. The trade-off is a proprietary Opspack format, subscription-only buying from a private-equity owner, and evidence that rests largely on the vendor's own knowledge base.

Open questions and evidence caveats

Most facts come from one vendor knowledge-base page; FIPS 140-3, secrets vaulting, KubeVirt and OpenStack claims have no release and were not credited in full.
The capability text mentions natural-language dashboard generation, but the AI evidence finds no LLM assistant; it was not scored.
List prices are not published; the 500-host minimum and price range are estimates in the research.
ITRS's focus on Geneos and financial services may steer the roadmap away from general infrastructure buyers.