Excellent tool that's widely used - and best of all, it's free!
November 07, 2019
Excellent tool that's widely used - and best of all, it's free!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Nagios Core
Nagios is an excellent open-source tool. There is a large community of users who have developed scripts and make them available for other users for just about anything you could ever want to monitor. Nagios is being used to monitor various applications, servers, websites, and services. Once you have set up a few things it is very straight forward to use and configure templates to repeat the task for new devices.
- Monitoring.
- Notifications.
- Integration.
- Strong community of users with shared plugins.
- The native graphing/trending could use updating. It is great for its traditional reporting, but seeing the graphs and trends out of the box would be helpful.
- With it being a free tool, there is no cost associated with it, so it's very valuable to an organization to get something that is so great and widely used for free.
- You can set up as many alerts as you want without incurring any fees.
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
I have been using Nagios for 10+ years, so I am very familiar with it. The learning curve with SolarWinds was more difficult for me to pick up than Nagios and it wasn't as easy (at first) to duplicate, edit, etc. in SolarWinds. I genuinely think Nagios is a great product for many reasons, one of which is the unbeatable price.
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