Agent-based vs Agentless Monitoring

Introduction

Refer to the following table to understand the major OpsRamp capabilities of Agent-based and Agentless Monitoring:

Agent-based vs Agentless Monitoring
OpsRamp Capabilities
Module	Capabilities	Agent Monitoring	Remote Monitoring
Module	Capabilities	Agent Monitoring	Windows Gateway	Linux Gateway	OpsRamp Cloud (API)
Discovery	Discovery of Windows Servers	Yes	Yes	No	N/A
	Discovery of Linux Servers	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A
	Discovery of network devices (SNMP)	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A
	Discovery of Kubernetes environment (On-Prem & Cloud)	Yes	No	No	N/A
	Application discovery on target servers	Yes	No	No	No
	Infrastructure Discovery - Virtualization stack	N/A	Yes	Yes	N/A
	Infrastructure Discovery - Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)	Yes	N/A	N/A	Yes
Monitoring (Templates)	Native Windows monitoring	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Native Linux monitoring	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Network Resource Monitoring (SNMP)	N/A	Yes	Yes	N/A
	Data Center Monitoring - Applications	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A
	Data Center Monitoring - Databases	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A
	Data Center Monitoring - Storage	N/A	Yes	Yes	N/A
	Data Center Monitoring - Protocols (For example, JMX, APIs)	No	Yes	Yes	N/A
	Data Center Monitoring - Virtualization	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Cloud Monitoring - AWS, Azure, GCP services	No	N/A	N/A	Yes
	Cloud-Native Applications	Yes	No	No	Yes
	Web Services monitoring	No	No	Yes	No
	Synthetics - VOIP(SIP) monitoring	No	No	Yes	No
Extensibility (Custom Monitors)	Custom Monitors - User-Authored monitoring content	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Event Integrations	Webhook-based integrations	N/A	N/A	N/A	Yes
	Generic REST-based event integrations	N/A	N/A	N/A	Yes
	Email-based integrations	N/A	N/A	N/A	Yes
Automation	Run book automation	Yes	N/A	N/A	No
Automation	Remote Consoles	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

*N/A = Not Applicable