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Absolutely essential for any sys admin and IT department, plus it's FREE
Updated October 28, 2019

Absolutely essential for any sys admin and IT department, plus it's FREE

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Nagios Core

Nagios is used to monitor and report on the utilization of our network and server hardware. It's primarily used for our IT department and DevOps team. We use it to monitor switch and server status, and in combination with PTRG Nagios, it gives us great reporting and details within our network infrastructure.
  • Network and server status alerts if a device is in a down state.
  • Gives you the top view down of your entire network infrastructure.
  • It can be customized to your exact needs.
  • You have two options of agentless and agent monitoring.
  • Take a few steps to configure and get running.
  • Reporting needs to be more in-depth with a better layout.
  • UI needs work and needs to be streamlined for a better UI experience.
  • Wish there was better support for enterprise environments.
  • The ROI on Nagio is amazing. It's free! All that's required is dedicating a few staff member's time to learn the ins and outs.
  • Our IT operations have improved reliability and reduced downtime by being pro-active when issues arise.
  • Nagios is a must for any network. It's a little bit to set up and configure but once it's up it will save you in the long run.
Nagios is opensource and free compared to any other competitors out there. The support forums are great. You can fully scale Nagios from small to large environments.
An absolute dream for any IT infrastructure and it's free. There are a few small downsides but they are outweighed by Nagios being open-sourced and free with a supportive community behind it.

Do you think Nagios Core delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Nagios Core's feature set?

Yes

Did Nagios Core live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Nagios Core go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Nagios Core again?

Yes

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Azure
Nagios is great to give you a top-down view of your entire IT infrastructure. It's another tool to improve reliability and be more pro-active than reactive to problems within your IT infrastructure. I would recommend Nagios in all environments from small businesses to enterprise environments.