Nagios Core

Nagios Core

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Nagios Core	Score 8.4 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

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Nagios Core

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Nagios Core
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	Nagios Core
Considered Both Products	Nagios Core Verified User Technician Chose Nagios Core Unlike SL1 and IBM NOI, you do not need to buy licenses or pay for support. You can begin deployment immediately. You don't need to purchase expensive equipment or study confusing manufacturer's manuals. Zabbix can also be used freely, but it is not so common and you may need … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Nagios Core Nagios Core can do literally anything you need it to thanks to the amazing developer community and their ability to program custom addons. Need to monitor servers all over the world.The main advantage of Nagios Core is that it allows you to be aware of the status of each host … Incentivized Helpful? Pavan Mehare Linux Administrator Chose Nagios Core 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]. Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Nagios Core As a backup NMS, it is better to invest to Nagios since it costs less than any other competitors which [provide] the same level of service. Maybe PRTG gives more features but you don't need all [those] features for your daily use so Nagios gives you what you need when it comes … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Nagios Core We chose Nagios Core over Zabbix and Zenoss because it was easier to get up and running and configure than the other two products. They required network scanning for assets and then required you to enter every little detail about the host. With Nagios Core, we just entered our … Incentivized Helpful? D. Robert Hamilton IT Senior Client Services Engineer Chose Nagios Core Nagios is a great tool for the price. Lots of bang for your buck if you know what I mean. The tool installs easily and has a very lightweight footprint. This also allows for great batch installation and configuration. Tags can be applied and pushed throughout the org. … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Chose Nagios Core Centreon has some added benefits to Nagios, mostly in how configurations are made and data is presented. Nagios is perhaps more reliable because of its simplicity. They are both based off of Nagios, so they are similar in many ways, but Centreon adds some of their own … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Nagios Core I have been using Nagios for 10+ years, so I am very familiar with it. The learning curve with SolarWinds was more difficult for me to pick up than Nagios and it wasn't as easy (at first) to duplicate, edit, etc. in SolarWinds. I genuinely think Nagios is a great product for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Nagios Core Nagios is opensource and free compared to any other competitors out there. The support forums are great. You can fully scale Nagios from small to large environments. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Nagios Core Nagios may not have as much metrics reporting or as many visualizations as the other products, but outdoes the others in ease of configuration and the ability to deliver multi-faceted alerting across a variety of applications, with the help of plugins or with the user … Incentivized Helpful? MA Manuel Ayala IT Director-Global Telecom Ops Chose Nagios Core The cost is considerably better. Others are probably more complete and even overkilled if all you're looking for is simple SNMP alerting and reporting. If you're looking for integrated analytics or more complex reporting/alerting, there might be better options. Nagios also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Nagios Core PTRG gets expensive after the free 100 endpoints for small organizations. Incentivized Helpful? Alejandro Rojas Gerente de Tecnologia Chose Nagios Core I have not used any other software I can compare to Nagios Incentivized Helpful? Steven Peterson Senior Systems Analyst Chose Nagios Core Commercial tools where expensive and not as capable for our needs. Many had other functions that where not as useful for monitoring, such as automation, scripting, software installation. Many of which we had migrated to purpose-built tools that served our needs better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Nagios Core Other products were evaluated, but Nagios Core was chosen mainly due: 1. To Cost - it is free 2. Exceptional Customization features Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Nagios Core We selected Nagios because of the size of its community. We've used some of the others in the field over the past few years, Nagios had the best features out of the box coupled with it's following made it an easy selection. Incentivized Helpful? Ricardo Melo Network Analyst Chose Nagios Core Nagios presents greater robustness, efficiency, and clarity in presenting required results. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Nagios Core I've only had experience with Nagios. It has been a perfect solution for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Nagios Core We have actually tried several. Nagios does what it was designed to do well. Some of the other products we have do more than Nagios, but they were designed to do more detailed and specific things. Many we have found do a good bit less than Nagios does. Nagios is a nice … Incentivized Helpful? Nicolas Pla Gerente de Tecnologia Chose Nagios Core We selected Nagios over other vendors like Cacti and Zabbix because it was easy to use and implement, and had better integrations. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Nagios Core I have used both Zabbix and Nagios. Nagios is by far easier to use and configure. I like the layout better and love using it every day. It is my product of choice. Helpful? Shawn Brito Senior Systems Architect Chose Nagios Core We have tested several other monitoring products which were able to monitor the basic matrix (Memory, DiskUsage, CPU%, UpTime, Running Service Status, Port 80 Up/Down). Although some offered far better UIs, they lacked the ability to monitor ANYTHING. Zabbix, being the only … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Nagios Core Nagios is a good start, but as soon as an alert is triggered, you have to go searching and digging. It's better as a trigger and integrated with more robust, intelligent monitoring tools. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Krueger Operations/Systems Manager Chose Nagios Core Nagios is an easy to use intuative tool that gives a great return on investment. It has better monitoring features that IT needs than competitors and won't break the bank. Support for this tool is first class and the techs will help you to get the most out of the product. Incentivized Helpful? ZG zelalem gedefie Senior System Administrator Chose Nagios Core I always prefer Nagios. I didn't use others. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Network monitoring Pro Rock solid Pro Server monitoring
Top Cons	Minus Learning curve Minus Enterprise version Minus Third party

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User Ratings
	Nagios Core
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (3 ratings)
Usability	4.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (9 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Nagios Core
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. Incentivized Shawn Brito Senior Systems Architect Read full review
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. Incentivized Eric Krueger Operations/Systems Manager Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Read full review
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]. Pavan Mehare Linux Administrator Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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