Nagios Core vs. Zabbix

Nagios Core

166 Reviews and Ratings

Zabbix

182 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
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
Zabbix	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.	N/A

Pricing

Nagios Core

Zabbix

Single License: Free
Single License: Free

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Nagios Core	Zabbix
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 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? 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? 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 Other products were evaluated, but Nagios Core was chosen mainly due: 1. To Cost - it is free 2. Exceptional Customization features Incentivized Helpful? Randall Svancara System Engineer in Information Technology at Whitepages (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Nagios Core We had a lot of prior experience with Nagios. That made it a no brainer for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Nagios Core We selected Nagios because of the size of its community. We've used some of the others in the field over the past few years, Nagios had the best features out of the box coupled with it's following made it an easy selection. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Nagios Core Nagios and these other applications stack up well, but configuring nagios is still by hand for the most part. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Nagios Core Nagios was the best in the past and why I chose it for many of the companies I've worked for. Also, coming in to a company, there is almost always a Nagios server installed and since everyone knows the software it's easy to write plugins for it. But, in 2015, Nagios is a … Incentivized Helpful?	Zabbix Eduardo Viero IT Infrastructure Specialist in Information Technology at RANDON S.A (Automotive, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Zabbix Although we still use Cisco Prime for network devices, when comparing Zabbix with Nagios, for example, you see that Zabbix is more robust, stable, easy to deploy and has an enterprise focus that other tools don't have. Also, the fact that the Zabbix community is very active is … Incentivized Helpful? Ricardo Melo Network Analyst in Information Technology at Aloo Telecom (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose Zabbix Zabbix was adopted in our framework due to the value, the hardware requirements, the knowledge we had available and the vast documentation on the internet. Incentivized Helpful? Steve Mushero CEO in Information Technology at OpsStack (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Zabbix Zabbix was much better at handling traditional systems, and in ease of customization, both in the system itself, and customizing data sources, such as adding deep MySQL or JMX integrations. It's very good for organizing large-scale (hundreds or thousands of servers) systems; … Incentivized Helpful? Eric O'Callaghan Linux Engineer in Information Technology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees) Chose Zabbix I personally prefer Zabbix over any other monitoring software that I have ever tried. Zabbix is so customizable that if there is a feature I need, I can easily implement it. I can then add that feature to a template in no time and have it applied to hundreds, or even thousands, … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Quint Lead AWS Systems Architect in Information Technology at Turing Group (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Zabbix More extensive and customizable than SaaS solutions. Much less learning curve than Nagios. Cost is very much lower than SaaS monitoring especially at scales over 1000 hosts ($15,000/month for SaaS!!) Templating systems allows for easy management and monitoring of groups of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Zabbix Zabbix had the best support for the devices I initially had in my network, its ability to adapt and change has made it my Swiss Army knife of monitoring tools. While it could benefit greatly from a moderated zabbix community, its support from the open source community has … Incentivized Helpful? Deepshikha Gandhi DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Magnetic (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Zabbix Nagios has some advantages over Zabbix like "flapping" detection and multiple alert levels - Error, Warning and OK. However, the disadvantages of Nagios like needing an addon (NRPE) to monitor remote system internals (open files, running processes, memory, etc), no charting of … Incentivized Helpful? Nadir Wade Linux Administrator in Information Technology at Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Zabbix Nagios will always be at or near the top, but I really like how sleek Zabbix is. Also, once it's up and running its really helps keep things in order for you and your customers. As for PandoraFMS, it would have beat out Zabbix, but the documentation on PandoraFMS is really … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Nagios Core	Zabbix
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (44 ratings)	8.3 (28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (3 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	4.0 (1 ratings)	8.6 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (9 ratings)	5.0 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)