LiveAction vs. Nagios Core

LiveAction

LiveAction

18 Reviews and Ratings

Nagios Core

Nagios Core

166 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
LiveAction	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	LiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.	N/A
Nagios Core	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Nagios provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components. Multiple APIs and community-build add-ons enable integration and monitoring with in-house and third-party applications for optimized scaling.	N/A

Pricing

LiveAction

Nagios Core

Editions & Modules

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Single License: Free
Single License: Free

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
LiveAction	Nagios Core
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	LiveAction	Nagios Core
Considered Both Products	LiveAction Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveAction Compared to ExtraHop it lacked the network analytics that compares data from an L2 up. We were able to track down rogue devices. certificates, a DNS attack, etc. that would have been a little hard to do in LiveAction. On the flip side, compared to PRTG, LiveAction has many more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveAction There is not any other product that does exactly what LiveAction does. Some come about halfway close, like scrutinizer by Plixer. However, there is a gap with that product as it doesn't give proper quality of service recommendations, or to update l2/l3 configs to head off … Incentivized Helpful? Randy Zuehlke IT Security Manager Chose LiveAction Our infrastructure group evaluated SolarWinds from a network device management perspective and was impressed with the product. However, we were evaluating it from the device management functionality primarily, so a different role than what LiveAction was going to provide. Incentivized Helpful?	Nagios Core Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core Unlike SL1 and IBM NOI, you do not need to buy licenses or pay for support. You can begin deployment immediately. You don't need to purchase expensive equipment or study confusing manufacturer's manuals. Zabbix can also be used freely, but it is not so common and you may need … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core Nagios Core can do literally anything you need it to thanks to the amazing developer community and their ability to program custom addons. Need to monitor servers all over the world.The main advantage of Nagios Core is that it allows you to be aware of the status of each host … Incentivized Helpful? Pavan Mehare Linux Administrator Chose Nagios Core Because we get all we required in Nagios [Core] and for NPM, we have to do lots of configuration as it is not as easy as Comair to Nagios [Core]. On NPM UI, there is lots of data, so we are not able to track exact data for analysis, which is why we use Nagios [Core]. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core As a backup NMS, it is better to invest to Nagios since it costs less than any other competitors which [provide] the same level of service. Maybe PRTG gives more features but you don't need all [those] features for your daily use so Nagios gives you what you need when it comes … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core We chose Nagios Core over Zabbix and Zenoss because it was easier to get up and running and configure than the other two products. They required network scanning for assets and then required you to enter every little detail about the host. With Nagios Core, we just entered our … Incentivized Helpful? D. Robert Hamilton IT Senior Client Services Engineer Chose Nagios Core Nagios is a great tool for the price. Lots of bang for your buck if you know what I mean. The tool installs easily and has a very lightweight footprint. This also allows for great batch installation and configuration. Tags can be applied and pushed throughout the org. … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Chose Nagios Core Centreon has some added benefits to Nagios, mostly in how configurations are made and data is presented. Nagios is perhaps more reliable because of its simplicity. They are both based off of Nagios, so they are similar in many ways, but Centreon adds some of their own … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core Nagios may not have as much metrics reporting or as many visualizations as the other products, but outdoes the others in ease of configuration and the ability to deliver multi-faceted alerting across a variety of applications, with the help of plugins or with the user … Incentivized Helpful? MA Manuel Ayala IT Director-Global Telecom Ops Chose Nagios Core The cost is considerably better. Others are probably more complete and even overkilled if all you're looking for is simple SNMP alerting and reporting. If you're looking for integrated analytics or more complex reporting/alerting, there might be better options. Nagios also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core PTRG gets expensive after the free 100 endpoints for small organizations. Incentivized Helpful? Alejandro Rojas Gerente de Tecnologia Chose Nagios Core I have not used any other software I can compare to Nagios Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core 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. Incentivized Helpful? Steven Peterson Senior Systems Analyst Chose Nagios Core Commercial tools where expensive and not as capable for our needs. Many had other functions that where not as useful for monitoring, such as automation, scripting, software installation. Many of which we had migrated to purpose-built tools that served our needs better. Incentivized Helpful? Ricardo Melo Network Analyst Chose Nagios Core Nagios presents greater robustness, efficiency, and clarity in presenting required results. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core I've only had experience with Nagios. It has been a perfect solution for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core We have actually tried several. Nagios does what it was designed to do well. Some of the other products we have do more than Nagios, but they were designed to do more detailed and specific things. Many we have found do a good bit less than Nagios does. Nagios is a nice … Incentivized Helpful? Nicolas Pla Gerente de Tecnologia Chose Nagios Core We selected Nagios over other vendors like Cacti and Zabbix because it was easy to use and implement, and had better integrations. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core I have used both Zabbix and Nagios. Nagios is by far easier to use and configure. I like the layout better and love using it every day. It is my product of choice. Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Brito Senior Systems Architect Chose Nagios Core We have tested several other monitoring products which were able to monitor the basic matrix (Memory, DiskUsage, CPU%, UpTime, Running Service Status, Port 80 Up/Down). Although some offered far better UIs, they lacked the ability to monitor ANYTHING. Zabbix, being the only … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core Nagios is a good start, but as soon as an alert is triggered, you have to go searching and digging. It's better as a trigger and integrated with more robust, intelligent monitoring tools. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Krueger Operations/Systems Manager Chose Nagios Core Nagios is an easy to use intuative tool that gives a great return on investment. It has better monitoring features that IT needs than competitors and won't break the bank. Support for this tool is first class and the techs will help you to get the most out of the product. Incentivized Helpful? ZG zelalem gedefie Senior System Administrator Chose Nagios Core I always prefer Nagios. I didn't use others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core Other products were evaluated, but Nagios Core was chosen mainly due: 1. To Cost - it is free 2. Exceptional Customization features Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nagios Core Nagios is more configurable than competitors and we originally wanted something we could spin up quick for some simple checks. As our needs grew, our understanding and use of Nagios grew, and it was a natural choice. Having personally used other monitoring solutions, I prefer … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

LiveAction

Nagios Core

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	LiveAction 6.9 Ratings 17% below category average	Nagios Core - Ratings
Automated network device discovery	7.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network monitoring	7.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts	6.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network capacity planning	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	7.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network mapping	6.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable reports	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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Medium-sized Companies	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.0 out of 10	Icinga Score 7.8 out of 10
Enterprises	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.0 out of 10	Zabbix Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	LiveAction	Nagios Core
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	4.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	LiveAction	Nagios Core
Likelihood to Recommend	The product is best suited for performing assessments on your network infrastructure via data and voice over IP flows. Finding bandwidth hogs is also easy to do with the product (Similar to Plixer's Scrutinizer product), and permits point-and-click remediation of Quality of Service (QOS), layer2/3 transit problems, and security issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Nagios is simply a very configurable and rock solid monitoring engine. For these reasons I would recommend it to any IT professional in any medium to large organization where creating custom checks and programming ones custom needs into the configuration is practical. I would be more hesitant to recommend it as a first monitoring solution for a small business which is usually accompanied by a less experienced and/or more time constrained admin. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Packet tracing and diagnostics. The visual analytics in the dashboard were good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Cost is VERY high for what this product does, but it's worth it if you do not have all of the expertise to prioritize your network properly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It's built by engineers for engineers so setting it up and configuring it is relatively complicated. It could really use a simplified configuration approach, or a GUI to set it up instead of editing config files. I'd like to see the option to have service notification settings inherited from the host setting notifications. They have to be set up separately but they are often the same, so it would be nice to have less redundancy. Incentivized John Reeve Co-founder, lead developer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	We're currently looking to combine a bunch of our network montioring solutions into a single platform. Running multiple unique solutions for monitoring, data collection, compliance reporting etc has become a lot to manage. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	The Nagios UI is in need of a complete overhaul. Nice graphics and trendy fonts are easy on the eyes, but the menu system is dated, the lack of built in graphing support is confusing, and the learning curve for a new user is too steep. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Can't really rate this, we never had to call support. The product wasn't complicated to setup and learn. We have a high level of network knowledge so the product was self-explanatory. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I haven't had to use support very often, but when I have, it has been effective in helping to accomplish our goals. Since Nagios has been very popular for a long time, there is also a very large user base from which to learn from and help you get your questions answered. Incentivized Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Compared to ExtraHop it lacked the network analytics that compares data from an L2 up. We were able to track down rogue devices. certificates, a DNS attack, etc. that would have been a little hard to do in LiveAction. On the flip side, compared to PRTG, LiveAction has many more features that PRTG is lacking. The reporting, actions and visual analytics alone were better. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We have tested several other monitoring products which were able to monitor the basic matrix (Memory, DiskUsage, CPU%, UpTime, Running Service Status, Port 80 Up/Down). Although some offered far better UIs, they lacked the ability to monitor ANYTHING. Zabbix, being the only contender worthy of competing, is a good alternative to Nagios. We also tried Zenoss Core & OpenNMS which were good enough for non-Linux engineers to get started with. OP5 was another service-oriented monitoring solution we evaluated. Apart from Nagios, Consul is heavily used to monitor & register the micro-service systems & end-point URLs. Due to the time invested (9+years) in Nagios, we were able to get more components installed/configured easily than alternatives. Incentivized Shawn Brito Senior Systems Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not. Great reporting features for executives. Incentivized Randy Zuehlke IT Security Manager Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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