Why, why the hell I chose Nagios
July 24, 2017
Why, why the hell I chose Nagios
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Nagios
We are using Nagios to monitor systems and services upon which we receive regular emails with statistics to measure KPI. Furthermore, we have already established a ground rule to have everything monitored, including the test systems and test services as well. Luckily, during the test period, we could identify bottlenecks and patch sooner rather than later using statistics and notifications from Nagios.
- Regular checks - never miss a lost service
- Statistics report - crucial to measure KPI
- Notifications - get instant calls about incidents to prevent issues
- Add users/services: it is sometimes difficult to add new users and services, but that is only because we haven't purchased a GUI to edit these.
- Difficult to connect to: since it is difficult to add new users, there is no interface and we have to opt for a third-party GUI
- No GUI: we have to opt for a third-party GUI to have a better visualization
- Services are stable and monitored.
- We do not have to check systems occasionally if there is a problem.
- It's easy to deploy so does not take lots of time to configure it initially.
- Cheaper and definitely easier to set up.
- Kind of difficult to fully configure, but once Nagios is configured - you really do not need to check back if everything is still working.
- Operations Manager needs to be monitored as well, so you need a monitoring service for the monitoring server, and that is not convenient at all.