Nagios Core

In our organization, we use Nagios Core to monitor servers and applications for our clients. We also use it to monitor our and our customers' infrastructure for which we are contractually responsible. Customer support teams use Nagios Core to find and resolve problems with servers and applications which they support.

• Nagios Core can be offered as cheap basic monitoring solution for customers
• No cost for licenses
• Small hardware requirements
• No specific software knowledge required
• Friendly for OS admins

ScienceLogic SL1, Zabbix and IBM Netcool Operations Insights

ScienceLogic SL1, Tivoli Monitoring (legacy), Zabbix

To monitor the critical business application services.

get better control over the servers.

Basically, Nagios Core helps us to act quickly and to reduce the impact of any business urgencies by giving the notifications in time with proper information's. Scope is to gain total governance and unattended monitor of servers and services with different parameters defined.

• great opensource tool
• time to setup is really less
• very robust and reliable

Prometheus and Grafana

Grafana, Prometheus, GitLab, Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

• Network analysis
• Open source
• Calculated data

• Open source is helpful.
• We have better managed downtime due to calculated data.
• No negative impacts.

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

Amazon RDS on VMware, Chef Infra, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

• It has allowed IT support staff to ensure uptime of our services.
• It has given IT staff insight into application functionality.

Centreon

Centreon, Pure Storage FlashArray, vSphere, Ansible

• Seems cheap.
• Lite weight user design.

Dynatrace

Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM