Nagios keeps us on our toes
March 13, 2019

Nagios keeps us on our toes

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Nagios

We have been using Nagios since the beginning of our business. Nagios has been an important necessity to monitor our servers as well as server services. We currently monitor over 1000+ instances of Nagios for our servers in our internal IT department as well as clients' private servers to ensure they remain stable and ensure uptime.
  • Monitor server uptime via ping options
  • Monitor server services such as HTTP, load, and server resources
  • Alert us to any issues a server might have so we can look into them right away
  • Minimal support as there is mostly just a user-based support community instead of the typical customer support option
  • If someone was new at setting it up, it's a time-consuming configuration in order to get the return/results you are looking for
  • Some security concerns since it is open source and any hackers can access the code to find vulnerabilities
  • Upcharge for monitoring services.
  • Cost savings since we are monitoring all services at once.
  • We have less need for data center staff checking on servers as Nagios will alert us to issues that can be remedied before a server is locked up.
I've only had experience with Nagios. It has been a perfect solution for us.
Nagios is well suited for everyone whether there is 1 server or 100+. It's a way of keeping your server secure and up. The alternative is just keeping the terminal open 24/7 but that won't tell you everything at once. You would need to look for different issues which Nagios assists with.