Name: Nagios XI
Price: 1995 USD
Rating: 8.3 (44 reviews)
Author: Nagios Enterprises

Starting at $1,995 Per Instance

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What is Nagios XI?

Nagios XI is an Enterprise Server and Network Monitoring Software, built on Nagios Core and designed to comprehensive application, service, and network monitoring in a central solution.Nagios XI is available in two different editions: Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition.…

Monitoring Master Nagios XI for infrastructure

Rating: 8 out of 10

January 6, 2025

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We are using Nagios XI in our organization primarily for monitoring all our application servers and databases, this is helping us in addressing all the infrastructure issues i...

Shivanand Labbi

Engineer - Information Technology

Senior software engineer

Manhattan

4 years of experience

Nagios with light weight sensors

Rating: 8 out of 10

February 15, 2021

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Nagios XI is being used as a network, server, and database monitoring tool in the Information Technology Department. SMTP settings are available and whenever the server will b...

Muhammad Hassan Khan

Employee - Information Technology

Deputy Manager

Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited

3 years of experience

Back to the future with Nagios XI

Rating: 8 out of 10

March 23, 2020

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For in-house infrastructure monitoring and application performance monitoring across the entire organization. Some 1000 hosts, 50+ Applications, various 3rd party integrations...

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5 years of experience

Nagios XI -- The Open-Source Enterprise monitoring solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 9, 2019

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Nagios XI is helping us to do the monitoring completely automatic. The advance dashboard and admin dashboard are designed so well and are easy to configure as per each user's ...

Eduin Zuloaga

Manager - Information Technology

IT Architecture Manager

Edenred México

6 years of experience

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$1995

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Per Instance

Enterprise

$3495

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Per Instance

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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What is Nagios XI?

Nagios XI is an Enterprise Server and Network Monitoring Software, built on Nagios Core and designed to comprehensive application, service, and network monitoring in a central solution.

Nagios XI is available in two different editions: Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition provides users with additional functionality and includes features that are designed to aid in large-scale configuration, forecasting, and scheduled reporting. Each license includes twelve months of maintenance (upgrade entitlements) and email support.

Nagios XI Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

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Nagios XI is a versatile monitoring tool that has proven effective in a variety of use cases. Users have found it invaluable for monitoring the availability of devices and services, ensuring high availability and scalability in infrastructure monitoring. With its quick alerts for downtime machines and network outages, Nagios XI simplifies network monitoring and provides timely notifications for any issues that may arise.

Additionally, Nagios XI is relied upon for health checks of ports and the monitoring of instances. Despite some users' suggestions for more plugins and a modern GUI/UX, Nagios XI continues to be a critical and reliable part of many organizations. The software's continuous improvement through future updates introduces great features, enhancing its usefulness for managing and monitoring the entire IT infrastructure of an organization.

Furthermore, Nagios XI saves time by efficiently monitoring devices and providing quick access to switches and other network components. Its comprehensive infrastructure monitoring capabilities, coupled with its quick response and stability in network connectivity, make it highly recommended for proactive troubleshooting, maintaining network uptime, and generating accurate live data reports. Nagios XI also aids in end-to-end live monitoring of fiber ring topology, facilitating efficient management of networks across different locations.

Moreover, Nagios XI has been adopted by various users to monitor servers' performance, disk usage, memory utilization, CPU utilization, network devices such as switches and routers, and end-to-end connectivity. Its simplicity and user-friendliness make it accessible even for beginners while offering powerful functionality to experienced users. Though initial setup and configuration may require some manual effort, users have found that it becomes less complicated with experience.

Overall, Nagios XI's reliability, cost-effectiveness, flexibility in configuration preferences, and ability to provide real-time monitoring and fast alerts have made it an essential tool in maintaining network health, solving issues promptly, impressing management with results, enhancing product quality through automation monitoring, aiding in capacity planning with scheduled managed reports, ensuring quick recovery from downtime, and keeping operations running smoothly for businesses operating around the clock.

Users recommend Nagios for its effectiveness in monitoring network infrastructure. It is considered a good tool for network administrators, IT operations, and system administration. Reviewers highlight its cost-effectiveness and ease of learning and implementation. Furthermore, Nagios is recommended for monitoring large-scale data centers, fiber connectivity, and device monitoring. Users also suggest using Nagvis for proper network monitoring. Additionally, Nagios XI is praised as a smart monitoring tool for network monitoring, particularly for live monitoring and enterprise device monitoring. Finally, Nagios is regarded as the best option for proactive network monitoring in large infrastructure networks. It is also seen as well-suited for smaller environments or those with limited budgets for expensive monitoring applications. Lastly, users suggest trying the free version of Nagios before purchasing the full version.

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Nagios with light weight sensors

Rating: 8 out of 10

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February 15, 2021

Muhammad Hassan Khan

Deputy Manager

Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees)

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3 years of experience

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nagios XI is being used as a network, server, and database monitoring tool in the Information Technology Department. SMTP settings are available and whenever the server will be down, it will generate an email and inform the server administrator.

Pros

Network monitoring.
Database monitoring.
Windows Server monitoring.
Cluster Service monitoring.

Cons

Graphical user interface must be enhanced.
More monitoring agents must be included.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Return on Investment

Minimize downtime.
Improved RTO.
Improved RPO.

Alternatives Considered

IDERA SQL Admin Toolset

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.

Other Software Used

IDERA Precise for Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Power BI

Nagios XI -- The Open-Source Enterprise monitoring solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

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November 09, 2019

Eduin Zuloaga

IT Architecture Manager

Edenred México (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

6 years of experience

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nagios XI is helping us to do the monitoring completely automatic. The advance dashboard and admin dashboard are designed so well and are easy to configure as per each user's need. The scheduled managed report help in scaling up the capacity planning of the infrastructure. Nagios XI is providing the complete and comprehensive IT infrastructure monitoring many of our projects, and helps us to deliver the project in faster and more efficient ways.

Pros

Nagios XI has an exclusive feature of bulk modification of attributes that help in monitoring the same set on monitoring modules on a newly set up environment.
It allows you to monitor many network devices, such as switches, routers, servers, and is helping to monitor network performance and track traffic on the network interface.
The audit trails feature allows us to scrutinize the modification or setup.

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Nagios' ability to chart website ping values over any length of time helps when trying to correlate the data with other network components. Website ping and response times can be used in combination with other data as a great first step when determining whether or not connectivity and performance issues are limited to just the local network.

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

Zabbix

I like to be fixed rather than just dislike: it's not user-friendly with almost anything excluding a Windows Operating System. A Linux version, for example, is visibly backward. This does not seem to be a serious issue for most people, but it is still considered a disadvantage. As I do not like the way the dashboards are supposed to be designed, I think it should be easier and take less time. The initial price is reasonable, and for this reason we decided to buy it

Support Rating

Nagios XI support has plans to offer the following features:

Access to knowledgeable IT professionals – including support staff and developers.
Access to customer-only tutorials, documentation, and content in the Nagios Library.
Access to customer-only boards on our support forum for expedited assistance.
Access to customer-only email support for fast, confidential assistance.
Discounts on future license purchases.

Other Software Used

Apache Web Server, Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server), Jira Service Desk, JIRA Software

Monitoring Master Nagios XI for infrastructure

Rating: 8 out of 10

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January 06, 2025

Shivanand Labbi

Senior software engineer

Manhattan (Logistics & Supply Chain, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

4 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Nagios XI in our organization primarily for monitoring all our application servers and databases, this is helping us in addressing all the infrastructure issues in advance by alerting us when it any server hits the threshold as per the initial parameter setup also, we have integrated this tool with PagerDuty to alert us in needed based on the priority.

Pros

System Health check monitoring
Tracking system stats for period of time
Provides good graphs for the analysis purpose
Can manage any number of servers at a time without any glitch
Installation and Maintenace is pretty simple and manageable

Cons

From Nagios XI UI we can get some more features for heap and thread dump analysis based on collected gc logs
UI can make bit simpler as current one looks clumpsy.
Custom configuration takes bit while comparatively
Bandwidth monitoring is not that accurate need some improvement

Likelihood to Recommend

If anyone looking for the monitoring system for the infrastructure this is the go-to tool which monitors all infrastructure related components from server health to Networking and update us with mails and can be easily integrated with multiple other tools as needed for example PagerDuty , Also this suits good both on premises and cloud environments as well. If we are managing complex environment this tool for monitoring is best one.

Return on Investment

It made positive impact on business due to its on time monitoring capacity and with that we easily find the affected systems in advance before they damage the business.
From Business side also clients use this tool for there business load analysis and also it helps them in forecasting the size of VMs
It has free tier as well so for small scale applications this helps a lot in finance as well.

Usability

We are using Nagios XI in our organization primarily for monitoring all our application servers and databases, this is helping us in addressing all the infrastructure issues in advance by alerting us when it any server hits the threshold as per the initial parameter setup also it has free tier which helps for small scale applications monitoring to save some expenses.

Alternatives Considered

Grafana and Prometheus

Comparatively Nagios XI is better I feel because we can use this for both on -premises and cloud platforms as well Also it works on both traditional applications servers like tomcat WebSphere and also containerized applications like Docker and Kubernetes where in others are mostly restricted to containers based. Others are paid versions.

Other Software Used

Prometheus, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, Salesforce CMS

Users and Roles

We use Nagios XI mainly for monitoring our cloud hosted services and keep us alerted when any of the server hits threshold. It's UI & functions are good. Also has built in templates for various end points. It also provides graphical reports. With a Dashboard you can monitor easily all the parameters

Support Headcount Required

People with basic understanding of IT terms can easily support this product . Installation and configuration is easy no pre-skills required.

Business Processes Supported

Servers health monitoring
Graph and Performance
On time monitoring
scalability, and detailed reporting

Innovative Uses

scalability, and detailed reporting
Active Monitoring
Performance tuning

Future Planned Uses

For cloud servers monitoring
In house servers monitoring

Likelihood to Renew

This tool has been has been of great use and learning , offering exceptional ease of use, scalability, and detailed reporting. It has a lot of customization options and proactive monitoring which have significantly improved our infrastructure management.It's UI & functions are good. Also has built in templates for various end points.It also provides graphical reports. With a Dashboard you can monitor easily

Products Replaced

Yes

IBM Tivoli monitoring, Comparatively Nagios XI is having more than features than this.

Key Differentiators

Cloud Solutions
Scalability
Integration with Other Systems
Ease of Use
Other

We can manage Cloud solutions and do scalability and easily integrate with other systems.

Evaluation Lessons Learned

Nothing to do again, Nagios XI is doing good

Implementation Rating

I have been participated in the few implementations, and I would say its bit complex when its come to initial setup once its set post that its easy to manage

Implementation Details / Implementation Partner

Implemented in-house

Implementation Phases

Change Management Lessons

Change management was minimal

Since we work in product based we did not much with change management it was a direct implementation, so I am not sure on this much.

Implementation Issues

Installation of Nagios XI agents on all systems
Compatibility to other version of OD
Multiple servers installation

Training Types Used

No Training

Ease of Nagios XI Training

Yea without training we can learn this

Product Configurability

By considering the usage of the product it has all required features which supports the product and meet the customers expectations.

Configuration Lessons

Nothing much but it works best on both cloud environments and inhouse environments as well so it will be good if we have latest OS systems to avoid and older OS vulnerabilities.

UI Customization

No - we have not done any customization to the interface

Extensibility and Customization

Yes - we have added extensive custom code

Yes We have added our inhouse tool called GMS to this one and added all our required scripts and alerts as per the product need to this Nagios XI to support our application

Additional Customization Considerations

Nothing major

Support Rating

We contacted support for Nagios XI and everytime it was superfast and always got solution for raised issues

Premium Support

we did not purchased premium support because whatever base edition we able to achieve the goal so.

Bug Resolution

Exceptional Examples of Nagios XI Support

Once we were into situation that none of the alerts were generated for 4 hours in our tool due to some manual error, later Nagios XI team helped to fix the issue and that was very quick

Easy Tasks

Servers Monitoring
Alerts management, performance tuning
Graphs for analysis

Difficult Tasks

Query alerts are not that feasible to add here
integration with 3rd party systems
Initial setup is bit complex

Scalability

We have installed Nagios XI for our monitoring system and with this we are managing around 600 servers in total and not seen any major issues with its scalability we can scale it as much as we require and also installed on various applications servers and working as expected

Reliability and Availability

Never seen any such outages with Nagios XI till day it was available all the time working as expected

Performance

Performance wise it does its best job we monitor more than 500 Servers and we use this tool for Analysis also so never felt any lag

Ease of Integration

We have integrated Nagios XI with our inhouse tool called GMS and also integrated with pagerduty to alert us with calls when any threshold hits so these things are working as expected and not given any major troubles.

Systems Integrated With

Pagerduty
GMS

I would say it was one time activity initially we worked with customer support team once for initial setup later it didn't give any errors also its not that complex to integrate its doable