Nagios Core vs. CoScale (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Nagios Core
Score 7.3 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
CoScale (discontinued)
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
CoScale provided full-stack web performance monitoring, optimized for production environments. The CoScale platform was used to monitor a company’s server infrastructure and applications, as well as the impact on user experience and key business metrics. According to the vendor, CoScale would simplify monitoring and troubleshooting with automated anomaly detection and contextual insights. In 2018 CoScale was acquired by New Relic to, from a statement by them, advance…N/A
Pricing
Nagios CoreCoScale (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
Single License
Free
Single License
Free
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Nagios CoreCoScale (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Nagios CoreCoScale (discontinued)
Top Pros
Top Cons
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Auvik
Auvik
Score 8.4 out of 10
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Instana
IBM Instana
Score 9.0 out of 10
ManageEngine Site24x7
ManageEngine Site24x7
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Instana
IBM Instana
Score 9.0 out of 10
ManageEngine Site24x7
ManageEngine Site24x7
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Nagios CoreCoScale (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(42 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
4.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Nagios CoreCoScale (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
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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New Relic
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Pros
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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New Relic
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Cons
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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New Relic
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Likelihood to Renew
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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New Relic
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Usability
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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New Relic
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Support Rating
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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New Relic
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Alternatives Considered
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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New Relic
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Return on Investment
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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New Relic
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of Automatic anomaly detectionScreenshot of Performance monitoring dashboardScreenshot of Real user monitoringScreenshot of Docker and Kubernetes monitoringScreenshot of Full stack monitoring plugins