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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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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 Demos

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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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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

(1-5 of 44)

Old reliable solution

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 07, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nagios Core
10 years of experience
  • OS resources monitoring
  • Database monitoring
  • Web site monitoring
Cons
  • Application performance monitoring
  • Time series
  • User interfsce

anything or everything just monitor in Nagios Core

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 06, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nagios Core
13 years of experience
  • Notification
  • cron job check
  • server monitor
  • service monitor
Cons
  • May be some more plugins for different types service monitor
  • automation to configure the services
  • more documentation help support

Nagios [Core]: Best Open Source Monitoring Tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 23, 2021
PM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nagios Core
2 years of experience
  • Network analysis
  • Effective data collection
  • Easy implementation
Cons
  • Web UI should be better while navigating
  • Improve security
  • Need to extend support and availability

Industry standard monitoring

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 11, 2019
CS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nagios Core
8 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn
  • Monitors a variety of standard metrics.
  • Uses standard protocols (SNMP).
Cons
  • Managing monitor plugins could be more centralized and consistent.
  • Configuration is not very user-friendly.
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