Nagios XI vs. Watchman Monitoring

Nagios is best suited in an large organization where it is production 24/7, but in SME (small/medium enterprise) you have to pay a lot to the administrator. Instead use some graphical and easy to use tool like IDERA.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• 3rd party integrations via open API.
• Extremely flexible and configurable long term storage of the very detailed performance information (years of per 1-5 min perf data numbers).
• Small Nagios XI footprint (very efficient MySQL DB and flat files for perf data), making it powerful tool for thousands of checks and hundreds of reports.
• Responsive support, willing to provide resolution outside the box and by various means possible.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• The mobile interface is newly developed and needs more development. It should provide more options for the audit log and add more detail for the configuration rollback options.
• The scheduled report should be included in standard edition.
• Master Node is configurable on LINUX platform only. We had to hire a Linux administrator

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

Only because I never give out 10s. Nagios support goes above and beyond in helping with issues, workarounds, specific cases and requirements. Tracks customer implementation and history of the most important issues. Can’t complain (except that the team is small and quite probably overworked). Time to resolution could be much improved if only there were more folks to help around.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized