Nagios - the gold standard in systems monitoring
May 31, 2016
Nagios - the gold standard in systems monitoring
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Nagios
Nagios is the industry standard for IT systems monitoring. I use it to keep an eye on all my critical systems. Pretty much every aspect of a system can be monitored with Nagios, from a simple up/down check, to available disk space, to service status, to hardware status. It allows me to identify problems before they become user-impacting.
- Cost - you can pay for support and an easier interface, or you can get all the monitoring you need for free.
- Extensibility - you can pick from the vast array of checks available, or roll your own custom checks.
- Customizability - you can pick different interfaces, add in historical graphing, configure maintenance windows, and much more.
- Learning curve - can be steep, especially for those not familiar with Linux.
- Messy configurations - it is easy to get your configuration files into a mess without careful management.
- Breakability - it is easy to break your configuration accidentally, and can be difficult to figure out what you did wrong.
- Allows IT to identify problems before they become business-impacting
- Provides greater visibility into resource usage to allow for right-sizing of systems
- Allows growth to be easily measured for future needs forecasting
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
While SolarWinds may be much more advanced, Nagios will do 90% of what you need at a fraction of the cost.