Nagios XI vs SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

• Nagios XI has an exclusive feature of bulk modification of attributes that help in monitoring the same set on monitoring modules on a newly set up environment.
• It allows you to monitor many network devices, such as switches, routers, servers, and is helping to monitor network performance and track traffic on the network interface.
• The audit trails feature allows us to scrutinize the modification or setup.

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• It integrates with MS Windows, so you can keep track of services, processes or nic utilization/bandwidth.
• You can also view the history of a lot of the monitor you choose. It can be helpful to isolate an issue if it's happening at a regular interval.
• Linux and non-Windows OSs are supported using SNMP and even an agent if want to take advantage of other Solarwinds features.
• It plays nice with other software, so you won't have conflicts with monitoring. Always a plus if more than one team is looking at data on the host.

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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• Overall lack of new developments, making this product more and more outdated.

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• I would much like to see the modules sold in categorically grouped bundles, such as a networking bundle which would include all modules relating to the network.
• Would love to see an addition of an API or something like that to connect to VMware Vcenters.
• Found that if you acknowledge alerts, it makes it very difficult to remediate them inside of the program.

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• Reduction of at least 10% of false alarms.
• Increased network traffic by 5%.

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• One of the biggest areas of ROI is for our DBA, with the combination of SAM and DPA we have been able to streamline the maintenance and troubleshooting of applications. On several instances, it has taken us probably less than 5 minutes to tell supervisors where the issue lies when something is not working.
• The second area that it helps is helping us see trends on our servers to know if we need to address specific areas of growth to ensure continued productivity and smooth operations.
• Initially this was not part of our "initial" purchase with SolarWinds, however, now it is definitely one of the core SolarWinds modules that are used on a daily basis to assist in monitoring our network.

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