Backup Radar vs. Nagios Core

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Backup Radar
Score 8.5 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Backup Radar is a backup monitoring solution for MSPs designed to reduce risk of data loss, drive business and process efficiency, and achieve greater visibility across backup platforms. It is an automation software that helps MSP’s of all sizes and enterprise IT departments catch missed or failed backups in real-time, streamline backup checking workflows and give full customization for reports, alerts and dashboards. Backup Radar makes it possible for MSP's to see the "unseen". …N/A
Nagios Core
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Nagios provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components. Multiple APIs and community-build add-ons enable integration and monitoring with in-house and third-party applications for optimized scaling.N/A
Pricing
Backup RadarNagios Core
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Single License
Free
Single License
Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Backup RadarNagios Core
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Backup RadarNagios Core
Features
Backup RadarNagios Core
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Backup Radar
10.0
1 Ratings
26% above category average
Nagios Core
-
Ratings
Remote monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Backup Radar
10.0
1 Ratings
31% above category average
Nagios Core
-
Ratings
Service configuration management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy-based automation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Backup Radar
10.0
1 Ratings
25% above category average
Nagios Core
-
Ratings
Performance data reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk analysis10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Backup RadarNagios Core
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(9 ratings)
User Testimonials
Backup RadarNagios Core
Likelihood to Recommend
ScalePad
We have more than 2500 individual backup jobs across our customer base. With Backup Radar, I now have a detailed, accurate insight into all jobs. I do not have to wonder or doubt if the backup job did not run, it logs a "no result in 24 hours" ticket for me and if it failed, I get a failure ticket logged. It cannot be more simple. This is done across multiple different backup software. The reporting, be it on demand, or scheduled, is absolutely brilliant and super valuable
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Nagios Enterprises
Nagios monitoring is well suited for any mission critical application that requires per/second (or minute) monitoring. This would probably include even a shuttle launch. As Nagios was built around Linux, most (85%) plugins are Linux based, therefore its more suitable for a Linux environment.
As Nagios (and dependent components) requires complex configurations & compilations, an experienced Linux engineer would be needed to install all relevant components.
Any company that has hundreds (or thousands) of servers & services to monitor would require a stable monitoring solution like Nagios. I have seen Nagios used in extremely mediocre ways, but the core power lies when its fully configured with all remaining open-source components (i.e. MySQL, Grafana, NRDP etc). Nagios in the hands of an experienced Linux engineer can transform the organizations monitoring by taking preventative measures before a disaster strikes.
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Pros
ScalePad
  • Backup Monitoring (no successful backups in 24 hours)
  • Automated Ticketing (Backup Radar logs the tickets in our PSA system)
  • Automated Reporting (Daily, Weekly, and Monthly reporting)
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Nagios Enterprises
  • Monitoring of services is one of the biggest benefits for our company. Being able to respond in a timely fashion keeps business smooth.
  • Hardware and device monitoring are easy to set up with proper parameters.
  • Notification to key staff to be able to respond quickly makes issues go away faster.
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Cons
ScalePad
  • None offhand that I can think of
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Nagios Enterprises
  • Nagios could use core improvements in HA, though, Nagios itself recommends monitoring itself with just another Nagios installation, which has worked fine for us. Given its stability, and this work-around, a minor need.
  • Nagios could also use improvements, feature wise, to the web gui. There is a lot in Nagios XI which I felt were almost excluded intentionally from the core project. Given the core functionality, a minor need. We have moved admin facing alerts to appear as though they originate from a different service to make interacting with alerts more practical.
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Likelihood to Renew
ScalePad
No answers on this topic
Nagios Enterprises
We're currently looking to combine a bunch of our network montioring solutions into a single platform. Running multiple unique solutions for monitoring, data collection, compliance reporting etc has become a lot to manage.
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Usability
ScalePad
No answers on this topic
Nagios Enterprises
The Nagios UI is in need of a complete overhaul. Nice graphics and trendy fonts are easy on the eyes, but the menu system is dated, the lack of built in graphing support is confusing, and the learning curve for a new user is too steep.
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Support Rating
ScalePad
No answers on this topic
Nagios Enterprises
I haven't had to use support very often, but when I have, it has been effective in helping to accomplish our goals. Since Nagios has been very popular for a long time, there is also a very large user base from which to learn from and help you get your questions answered.
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Alternatives Considered
ScalePad
Never used anything else similar to this
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Nagios Enterprises
Because we get all we required in Nagios [Core] and for npm, we have to do lots of configuration as it is not as easy as Comair to Nagios [Core]. On npm UI, there is lots of data, so we are not able to track exact data for analysis, which is why we use Nagios [Core].
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Return on Investment
ScalePad
  • Positive, the ROI is no match compared to the integrity and business reputation value we get by using Backup Radar, as we do not "resell" Backup Radar to our customers, it is our internal monitoring and reporting tool for the customers we look after.
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Nagios Enterprises
  • With it being a free tool, there is no cost associated with it, so it's very valuable to an organization to get something that is so great and widely used for free.
  • You can set up as many alerts as you want without incurring any fees.
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