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Nagios XI

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What is Nagios XI?

Nagios XI is an Enterprise Server and Network Monitoring Software, built on Nagios Core and designed to comprehensive application, service, and network monitoring in a central solution.

Nagios XI is available in two different editions: Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition provides users with additional functionality and includes features that are designed to aid in large-scale configuration, forecasting, and scheduled reporting. Each license includes twelve months of maintenance (upgrade entitlements) and email support.

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Monitoring Master Nagios XI for infrastructure

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Shivanand Labbi
Senior software engineer in Information Technology at Manhattan (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Nagios XI in our organization primarily for monitoring all our application servers and databases, this is helping us in addressing all the infrastructure issues in advance by alerting us when it any server hits the threshold as per the initial parameter setup also, we have integrated this tool with PagerDuty to alert us in needed based on the priority.

Pros

  • System Health check monitoring
  • Tracking system stats for period of time
  • Provides good graphs for the analysis purpose
  • Can manage any number of servers at a time without any glitch
  • Installation and Maintenace is pretty simple and manageable

Cons

  • From Nagios XI UI we can get some more features for heap and thread dump analysis based on collected gc logs
  • UI can make bit simpler as current one looks clumpsy.
  • Custom configuration takes bit while comparatively
  • Bandwidth monitoring is not that accurate need some improvement

Return on Investment

  • It made positive impact on business due to its on time monitoring capacity and with that we easily find the affected systems in advance before they damage the business.
  • From Business side also clients use this tool for there business load analysis and also it helps them in forecasting the size of VMs
  • It has free tier as well so for small scale applications this helps a lot in finance as well.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Grafana and Prometheus

Other Software Used

Prometheus, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, Salesforce CMS

Nagios with light weight sensors

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Muhammad Hassan KhanView profile
Deputy Manager in Information Technology at Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Network monitoring.
  • Database monitoring.
  • Windows Server monitoring.
  • Cluster Service monitoring.

Cons

  • Graphical user interface must be enhanced.
  • More monitoring agents must be included.

Return on Investment

  • Minimize downtime.
  • Improved RTO.
  • Improved RPO.

Alternatives Considered

IDERA SQL Admin Toolset

Other Software Used

IDERA Precise for Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Power BI

Nagios XI -- The Open-Source Enterprise monitoring solution

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Eduin ZuloagaView profile
IT Architecture Manager in Information Technology at Edenred México (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Nagios XI has an exclusive feature of bulk modification of attributes that help in monitoring the same set on monitoring modules on a newly set up environment.
  • It allows you to monitor many network devices, such as switches, routers, servers, and is helping to monitor network performance and track traffic on the network interface.
  • The audit trails feature allows us to scrutinize the modification or setup.

Cons

  • The mobile interface is newly developed and needs more development. It should provide more options for the audit log and add more detail for the configuration rollback options.
  • The scheduled report should be included in standard edition.
  • Master Node is configurable on LINUX platform only. We had to hire a Linux administrator

Return on Investment

  • Reduction of at least 10% of false alarms.
  • Increased network traffic by 5%.

Alternatives Considered

Zabbix

Other Software Used

Apache Web Server, Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server), Jira Service Desk, JIRA Software

Back to the future with Nagios XI

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Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • 3rd party integrations via open API.
  • Extremely flexible and configurable long term storage of the very detailed performance information (years of per 1-5 min perf data numbers).
  • Small Nagios XI footprint (very efficient MySQL DB and flat files for perf data), making it powerful tool for thousands of checks and hundreds of reports.
  • Responsive support, willing to provide resolution outside the box and by various means possible.

Cons

  • Robust, but visually old interface. Requires a lot of work to become presentable.
  • Small selection of dashlets to construct new views.
  • No MS Azure monitoring ability, nothing for “as service,” very limited Amazon cloud monitoring abilities.
  • Questionable price politics (could make it a lot less for developing markets to actually increase use of the product and R&D budgets).
  • No report designers nor the ability to create new reports. No changes in this area for years.
  • Overall lack of new developments, making this product more and more outdated.

Return on Investment

  • Very good ROI.
  • Good results as capacity mgmt tool.
  • Good results as application monitoring tool.

Alternatives Considered

Datadog, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor and SolarWinds AppOptics

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer