Checkmk vs. Nagios XI

In our organization which is a mash up of different hardware, software it was important to use an independent tool that wasn’t linked to one manufacturer incase a piece of hardware was dropped from support for example, we also value open-source software highly in our field. It’s important to in our IT environment to be able to customize and tweak software that we run. We don’t use the cloud monitoring aspect so Cannot comment on that side of the software.

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If anyone looking for the monitoring system for the infrastructure this is the go-to tool which monitors all infrastructure related components from server health to Networking and update us with mails and can be easily integrated with multiple other tools as needed for example PagerDuty , Also this suits good both on premises and cloud environments as well. If we are managing complex environment this tool for monitoring is best one.

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• Device Management
• Monitoring Network Quality
• Device Quality of Service
• SNMP
• IOT Monitoring

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• Network monitoring.
• Database monitoring.
• Windows Server monitoring.
• Cluster Service monitoring.

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• Updates
• mobile interface
• Agent for android devices

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• Robust, but visually old interface. Requires a lot of work to become presentable.
• Small selection of dashlets to construct new views.
• No MS Azure monitoring ability, nothing for “as service,” very limited Amazon cloud monitoring abilities.
• Questionable price politics (could make it a lot less for developing markets to actually increase use of the product and R&D budgets).
• No report designers nor the ability to create new reports. No changes in this area for years.
• Overall lack of new developments, making this product more and more outdated.

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Very helpful software and I highly recommend to have on hand as a tool for testing, troubleshooting, and monitoring.

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This tool has been has been of great use and learning , offering exceptional ease of use, scalability, and detailed reporting. It has a lot of customization options and proactive monitoring which have significantly improved our infrastructure management.It's UI & functions are good. Also has built in templates for various end points.It also provides graphical reports. With a Dashboard you can monitor easily

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Overall Checkmk is a great product that is made and ran by a European company that is open source and highly customizable, great support if needed. On prem support is a must for our organization which Checkmk supports. Our organization has been using Checkmk for over 5 years now Performance of the software runs excellent on its own Linux server, for any company with a good Linux admin, you can have a lot of un tweaking and creating custom checks for every aspect of your environment.

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We
are using Nagios XI in our organization primarily for monitoring all our
application servers and databases, this is helping us in addressing all the
infrastructure issues in advance by alerting us when it any server hits the
threshold as per the initial parameter setup also it has free tier which helps for small scale applications monitoring to save some expenses.

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Never seen any such outages with Nagios XI till day it was available all the time working as expected

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Performance wise it does its best job we monitor more than 500 Servers and we use this tool for Analysis also so never felt any lag

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Nagios XI support has plans to offer the following features:

• Access to knowledgeable IT professionals – including support staff and developers.
• Access to customer-only tutorials, documentation, and content in the Nagios Library.
• Access to customer-only boards on our support forum for expedited assistance.
• Access to customer-only email support for fast, confidential assistance.
• Discounts on future license purchases.

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I have been participated in the few implementations, and I would say its bit complex when its come to initial setup once its set post that its easy to manage

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Checkmk free version is far superior to PRTG free version. For the paid versions PRTG was more efficient and easier to use. Checkmk provides unlimited services on their free version while PRTG is limited. We like to use the free version to avoid monthly or annual costs while still utilizing the same SNMP features.

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Cost efficiency is the main reason which we opted [for] Nagios as we were previously using IDERA tool with comprehensive database monitoring solutions, but the slow performance we are getting while monitoring the instance of the database.

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We have installed Nagios XI for our monitoring system and with this we are managing around 600 servers in total and not seen any major issues with its scalability we can scale it as much as we require and also installed on various applications servers and working as expected

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• avoid downtime
• Plan updates based on usage of a VM or network switch to avoid impacting users
• User satisfaction increased due to less visible downtime or issues with our IT infrastructure.

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• Very good ROI.
• Good results as capacity mgmt tool.
• Good results as application monitoring tool.

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