Nagios XI vs. Watchman Monitoring by Syncro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Nagios XI
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Nagios XI is an Enterprise Server and Network Monitoring Software, built on Nagios Core and designed to comprehensive application, service, and network monitoring in a central solution. Nagios XI is available in two different editions: Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition provides users with additional functionality and includes features that are designed to aid in…
$1,995
Per Instance
Watchman Monitoring by Syncro
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Watchman Monitoring is a read-only IT Alerting, hardware monitoring, & high-availability beacon reporting SaaS designed for resale by IT professionals looking to provide proactive support to their offerings. The Watchman Monitoring Client has a single focus: to detect and report issues. Watchman Monitoring was acquired by Syncro (SyncroMSP) in 2021, and is now a Syncro brand.
$99
per month
Pricing
Nagios XIWatchman Monitoring by Syncro
Editions & Modules
Standard
$1995
Per Instance
Enterprise
$3495
Per Instance
Getting Started
$99
per month 25 included computer records
In-House IT
$219
per month 250 included computer records
Consultant
$299
per month 1500 included computer records
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per month 1501+ included computer records
In-House IT Large
starting at $299
per month 251-1500+ included computer records
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Nagios XIWatchman Monitoring by Syncro
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$400 one-time fee (includes custom branding)
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Community Pulse
Nagios XIWatchman Monitoring by Syncro
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Features
Nagios XIWatchman Monitoring by Syncro
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Nagios XI
-
Ratings
Watchman Monitoring by Syncro
9.7
1 Ratings
21% above category average
Remote monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Nagios XI
-
Ratings
Watchman Monitoring by Syncro
7.0
1 Ratings
4% below category average
Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Nagios XI
-
Ratings
Watchman Monitoring by Syncro
7.5
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Customizable reporting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Risk analysis00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Nagios XIWatchman Monitoring by Syncro
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Availability
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Nagios XIWatchman Monitoring by Syncro
Likelihood to Recommend
Nagios Enterprises
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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
If you are in IT consulting or manage any fleet of computers, both Mac and PC (and yes Linux) - you should have this installed. It will be able to provide you the information needed to repair computers and avoid productivity loss by users.
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Pros
Nagios Enterprises
  • Network monitoring.
  • Database monitoring.
  • Windows Server monitoring.
  • Cluster Service monitoring.
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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
  • Super easy to deploy.
  • Integrates well with ZenDesk and YourComputerInventory.com.
  • Website is very clear and email to manage.
  • Support is awesome.
  • Super lightweight package.
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Cons
Nagios Enterprises
  • 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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
  • Would like to see non-computer deployment agent - such as Synology.
  • Since it's mainly reporting, this isn't necessary improvement, but it would be good if it can receive data - so in case we can't ping a machine, maybe use Watchman as a backdoor - but that would go against it's main principles.
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Likelihood to Renew
Nagios Enterprises
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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
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Usability
Nagios Enterprises
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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
Nagios Enterprises
Never seen any such outages with Nagios XI till day it was available all the time working as expected
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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
No answers on this topic
Performance
Nagios Enterprises
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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
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Support Rating
Nagios Enterprises
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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Nagios Enterprises
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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
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Alternatives Considered
Nagios Enterprises
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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
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Scalability
Nagios Enterprises
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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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Nagios Enterprises
  • Very good ROI.
  • Good results as capacity mgmt tool.
  • Good results as application monitoring tool.
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SyncroMSP (Servably, Inc)
  • I've been using it since the day it came out - there have so many times where a machine has had an error reported by Watchman that we've been able to save the client before something terrible happened.
  • The ROI is there - you can easily resell this product to your clients, or wrap it into your product offering.
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