Back to the future with Nagios XI
- 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.
Cons
- 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- Overall lack of new developments, making this product more and more outdated.
- Very good ROI.
- Good results as capacity mgmt tool.
- Good results as application monitoring tool.
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