Welcome to Observium users

LibreNMS is a fork of Observium. The move to community and paid versions is not the reason for the fork. The reason is that our priorities and values differ from those of the Observium development team. We like Observium, but we want a community-based project with IT professionals who share our values. For more information about our community, read README.md and the references in that file.

LibreNMS is a fork of the last GPL-licensed version of Observium.

Dan Brown, one of our users, wrote a migration script. This script moves your Observium install to LibreNMS. It also moves the install from one CPU architecture to another.

LibreNMS differs from Observium in these ways:

• Our community is inclusive. Every question is welcome, and you can ask for features that are not on the roadmap. To request a feature, add or comment on the relevant issue in our community forum.
• The community drives the development decisions. We want to make software that meets the needs of its users.
• We have no plans for a paid version. We do not expect this to change.
• We have no current plans for paid support. We can add paid support later if enough people want it.
• We use git for version control and GitHub for hosting. Forked and private versions are therefore easy to create.

Use Observium instead of LibreNMS for these reasons:

• You have a financial investment in Observium, and community contributions are not important to you.
• You do not like the GNU General Public License, version 3 or the philosophy of free software and copyleft.

Use LibreNMS instead of Observium for these reasons:

• You want to work with others on the project, and you know that your investment of time and effort is not wasted.
• You want to add and test features that the Observium developers do not make a priority. For more information, read CONTRIBUTING.
• You want the additional features of LibreNMS.