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Nagios Core

Overview

What is Nagios Core?

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.

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Nagios, a popular IT infrastructure monitoring tool, has proven to be a valuable asset for organizations across various departments. With …
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Nagios for the win

6 out of 10
May 17, 2021
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We use Nagios as our alternative Network Monitoring Software for our data centers and out branches. It helps you monitor branch with down …
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Pricing

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Single License

Free

On Premise

Single License

Free

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Nagios Core?

Nagios provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Multiple APIs provide for simple integration with in-house and third-party applications. Thousands of community-developed add-ons extend monitoring and native alerting functionality. Third-party add-ons are available for monitoring in-house applications, services, and systems.

The vendor says Nagios is the industry standard In IT Infrastructure Monitoring. The vendor says the powerful Nagios Core 4 monitoring engine provides a high level of performance, and that its high-efficiency worker processes allow for scalability and monitoring effectiveness. It is designed to provide a central view of a company's entire IT operations network and business processes. Multi-user access to web interface allows stakeholders to view relevant infrastructure status. User-specific views ensures clients only see the infrastructure components they’re authorized for.

Nagios Core Features

  • Supported: Advanced Graphs & Visualizations
  • Supported: Performance & Capacity Planning Graphs
  • Supported: Configuration Wizards
  • Supported: Advanced Infrastructure Management
  • Supported: Configuration Snapshot Archive
  • Supported: Advanced User Management
  • Supported: Service-Level Agreement (SLA) Reports
  • Supported: Extendable Architecture

Nagios Core Integrations

Nagios Core Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Polish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.7.

The most common users of Nagios Core are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Nagios, a popular IT infrastructure monitoring tool, has proven to be a valuable asset for organizations across various departments. With its robust monitoring capabilities and ease of setup, Nagios has become a go-to solution for many users. Users have found Nagios useful for a wide range of use cases, including monitoring applications and computing resources, gaining insights through reporting features, and proactively detecting potential issues. Nagios' ability to handle a large number of servers and services without stability issues has been commended by users. It also offers hassle-free implementation of plugins behind firewalls, supporting both Pull and Push Monitoring methods. The customization options in Nagios allow users to create plugins in various programming languages, making it adaptable to their specific needs. Integration with other technologies like MySQL, NRDP, Pnp4Nagios, and Grafana further enhances its functionality. For example, Nagios can be integrated with MySQL for storage and retrieval, NRDP for push alerting, Pnp4Nagios for RRD graphing, and Grafana for aggregated graphing, dashboards, heat-maps, and alerts.

Nagios plays a vital role in monitoring infrastructure for multiple departments within organizations. It is widely used by network operations teams to monitor infrastructure 24/7 and configure alerts for application status. Users have also found Nagios instrumental in identifying bottlenecks and patching issues during the testing phase. With its ability to monitor a diverse range of server operating systems and components like disk space, CPU and memory utilization, network availability, Kerberos replication, Active Directory, Novell NDS driver monitoring, among others; Nagios provides comprehensive coverage for system monitoring needs. It saves time by automating server space checks and sending real-time information to the IT team. Additionally, Nagios proves its worth in data centers by issuing early alerts on sensitive equipment such as servers, switches, routers, firewalls, and air conditioners. The tool is also used by various departments like Data Center Operations, Provisioning, Operations, Infrastructure, and Enterprise Monitoring to ensure the health and performance of their respective areas. Overall, Nagios stands out as an excellent open-source monitoring tool with a large community of users and scripts available for monitoring diverse applications, servers, websites, and services.

Flexibility and Configurability: Many users have praised Nagios for its extreme flexibility and configurability. They appreciate the ability to customize the monitoring according to their specific needs, including agent and agentless monitoring solutions with a variety of plugins.

Intuitive User Interface: The simplicity and ease of use of Nagios' user interface are highly praised by users. They mention that the interface is intuitive and easy to read, allowing them to quickly understand the monitoring status and identify any issues.

Extensibility through Plugins: The extensibility of Nagios through plugins, scripts, and customizations is highly valued by users. They mention that they have been able to add any needed functionality using plugins and scripts, making Nagios more flexible than other monitoring systems.

Dated and Unattractive User Interface: Several users have criticized Nagios for its dated and unattractive user interface, which they find less appealing. The interface is in need of a major overhaul to improve usability and streamline the experience. Some users have suggested improvements to make it less confusing and easier to navigate.

Reliance on Community-Driven Plugins: Users have expressed frustration with the reliance on open source community-driven plugins for third-party applications and hardware support in Nagios. This can lead to unpolished or broken plugins, requiring additional time to configure. Configuring and deploying these plugins was troublesome for some users, requiring patience to connect all the various components.

Steep Learning Curve: The learning curve for Nagios can be steep, especially for those not familiar with Linux. The configuration process can be messy and prone to accidental breakage, making it challenging for new users. Additionally, some background knowledge of Linux is required during the initial configuration process.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Critical systems' uptime has increased
  • New hardware can be budgeted for and purchased to replace faulty hardware
  • Nagios Core is supported by almost all major alerting solutions in the cloud and can be integrated easily
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The ROI on Nagio is amazing. It's free! All that's required is dedicating a few staff member's time to learn the ins and outs.
  • Our IT operations have improved reliability and reduced downtime by being pro-active when issues arise.
  • Nagios is a must for any network. It's a little bit to set up and configure but once it's up it will save you in the long run.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Much better network device performance metrics allowing to troubleshoot and do before/after changes comparisons
  • Has helped us to integrate with our Service Management tool (through other 3rd party tools)
  • Important part of our overall network health dashboard providing granular details at the device level (not end-to-end performance)
  • Cost is very convenient
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The ROI is great since Nagios is free and the only thing that it requires is dedicating a few staff members' time to learn.
  • Overall our IT operations reliability has improved greatly.
  • Nagios has been able to meet all our objectives and goals by showing clearly where our reliability issues are.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Nagios Core is free and runs on Linux. This allowed us to leverage older existing hardware, essentially deploying a monitoring solution at no cost.
  • Due to the complexity of the initial configuration, a lot of time needs to be devoted to the product. This may result in employee resources being removed from more vital tasks.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I know when I've got an outage before the phone rings. We often have dispatched techs and are working to resolve our issues long before our customers notice.
  • Nagios allows us to plan for future bottlenecks, there is very little reason to ever be surprised by a utilization issue.
  • Nagios has cost us heavily in man hours to get running and comfortable. However cost on back of man hours is better than live environment outages any day.
John Reeve | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Positive: Nagios has saved us money.
  • Positive: Nagios has given us early warning of systems in trouble and we were able to fix them before it got worse.
  • Negative: The amount of time spent configuring it was more than I'd like. We take a "set it and forget it" approach to Nagios, so when it needs tuning we have to familiarize ourselves with the configuration.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Upcharge for monitoring services.
  • Cost savings since we are monitoring all services at once.
  • We have less need for data center staff checking on servers as Nagios will alert us to issues that can be remedied before a server is locked up.
Shawn Brito | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The only running cost for Nagios was the server hosting which was under 20$/month (for a few dozen servers/ hundreds of services).
  • As our system had grown to 5000+ services, the charges were under 100$/month. The software and all components were open-source. As the Nagios community is large, getting help was just a few hours away.
  • Due to the complexity involved with initial installation and configurations, an experienced Linux engineer is required during the initial stages.
August 07, 2018

Nagios Overview

Dario Leon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Positive impact: You have control over your business, not backward, how? You have alarms on your systems and apps, then the alarms show the problems, not operators or other people in the enterprise.
  • Positive impact: The price is for the number of hosts, not per host.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Good because it's standard for our org so everything that's spun up has some kind of monitoring in place
  • Bad because it was poorly configured, so alerts will fire.
  • If the host is down, all alerts fire off because none of the checks will work. Area for improvement.
Eric Krueger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Nagios has saved time by allowing our IT staff to focus on other projects.
  • Just knowing that systems are being properly monitored allows them to keep other tasks on track.
  • Downtime is lessened by proper timely notifications of system issues or down states.
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