Nagios Core

Nagios Core

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Nagios Core	Score8.6 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

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Nagios Core

Single License: Free
Single License: Free

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Nagios Core
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	Nagios Core
Considered Both Products	Nagios Enterprises Verified User 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 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 in Information Technology at Amdocs (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees) 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 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 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 in Information Technology at DTE Energy (Utilities, 5001-10,000 employees) 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 in Information Technology at Azusa Pacific University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) 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 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 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? Manuel Ayala IT Director-Global Telecom Ops in Information Technology at Honeywell Inc (Aviation & Aerospace, 10,001+ employees) 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 Chose Nagios Core PTRG gets expensive after the free 100 endpoints for small organizations. Incentivized Helpful? Alejandro Rojas Gerente de Tecnologia in Information Technology at ABC Color (Newspapers, 201-500 employees) Chose Nagios Core I have not used any other software I can compare to Nagios Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 in Engineering at Mainstream Technology Group (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees) 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 in Information Technology at Aloo Telecom (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose Nagios Core Nagios presents greater robustness, efficiency, and clarity in presenting required results. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Nagios Core I've only had experience with Nagios. It has been a perfect solution for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 in Information Technology at Despegar.com (Internet, 1001-5000 employees) 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 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 in Research & Development at Rezgateway (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) 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 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 in Information Technology at Crowell Systems (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) 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? zelalem gedefie Senior System Administrator in Information Technology at DMU (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Nagios Core I always prefer Nagios. I didn't use others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 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?
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User Ratings
	Nagios Core
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (3 ratings)
Usability	4.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (9 ratings)