Nagios Core vs. Uptrends

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
Uptrends
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Uptrends is the eponymous product from the company in Massachusetts for monitoring a website's uptime, used as well for monitoring web apps' functioning, server monitoring with alerts and reporting, and general analysis of a website's performance, element-by-element.
$16.21
per month
Pricing
Nagios CoreUptrends
Editions & Modules
Single License
Free
Single License
Free
Starter
$16.21
per month
Business
$22.61
per month
Enterprise
$54.04
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Nagios CoreUptrends
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe basic plans (Starter, Premium, and Professional) come with a fixed amount of uptime monitors you can use for the price shown. The advanced plans (Business and Enterprise) are fully customizable, so you only pay for what you need. The price gets higher based on the number of monitors you add. You can calculate the exact fee in your account using our pricing configurator
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Features
Nagios CoreUptrends
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Nagios Core
-
Ratings
Uptrends
7.4
2 Ratings
8% below category average
Remote monitoring00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Network device monitoring00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Nagios Core
-
Ratings
Uptrends
7.5
1 Ratings
1% above category average
Patch Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Service configuration management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Policy-based automation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Nagios Core
-
Ratings
Uptrends
7.7
2 Ratings
2% above category average
Performance data reports00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Customizable reporting00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Data visualization00 Ratings8.92 Ratings
Risk analysis00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Nagios Core
-
Ratings
Uptrends
7.3
1 Ratings
9% above category average
Data backup and recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Antivirus and malware management00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Administrator access control00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Nagios CoreUptrends
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(42 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
4.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(9 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Nagios CoreUptrends
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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Uptrends
Uptrends has more than 100 checkpoints all around the world. Which helps to track product performance and uptime in 1, 5, 10, or more minutes check interval. Alerts with error info got during checks help to determine issue type and transfer it to the relevant department. A synthetic check needs some improvements to cover standard web application needs, but recording those scripts is very easy with google extension.
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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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Uptrends
  • Monitors downtime.
  • Waterfall of resources when loading pages.
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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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Uptrends
  • Custom alert text option on mail
  • The synthetic tool needs some improvement when the last used device has not to support for recording scenarios in iframe located elements.
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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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Uptrends
No answers on this topic
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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Uptrends
No answers on this topic
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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Uptrends
Support average response time is 24 hours, which is quite a significant time when having some issues and needs help. They have notification issues as well. I mean, when a customer needs to be notified, for example canceling anything related acc maybe they sent notification and service suspend immediately, no pre notifications to act and be ready not to be blind.
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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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Uptrends
The price range is good if compared with the following tools. Alerts are informative, easy to connect with chat ops software, like slack, which is widely used by teams in my company. Performance measurement, which can be tracked day by day and can be delivered to stakeholders, all this made me decide to choose this tool.
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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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Uptrends
  • Ability to monitor uptime.
  • Cost savings over competitors.
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