Nagios XI

Pros

Nagios provide a centralized view of system status and provide alerts when issue arise over mail and sms.It supports multiple plugins and extensions with the help of plugins we can monitor server, application, databases, network devices and store their trends. It can also escalate alerts to multiple users or groups based on specific criteria.

Cons

Not facing any issue yet,easy to use and maintain.

Pros

Open source and easy to configure
easy to customized
Notification/Alert in case of any failure.
work on SNMP Protocol
free add-ons to download and develop your customization

Cons

License cost is very high
Interface is create confusing ( in Free Version )
Issue in monitoring in network throughput (bandwidth user wise )
Only monitoring tool , configuration are not allowed.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Choosing Nagios XI

Switched From

Reasons for Switching to Nagios XI

Pros

Nagios XI is a very complet tool for monitoring computer networks.

Cons

Nagios XI can be quite complex to set up the first time you use it.

Pros

People love Nagios because it "just works" with its check scripts, and Nagios XI adds an actually usable UX on top of that basic experience. It includes a small number of "wizards" that can help set up common monitoring configurations.

Cons

The Nagios monitoring agents aren't commercially supported, so good luck getting any features changed on those. You need to handle assembling a collection of test scripts, distributing them, and installing their dependencies on all managed nodes. The Nagios model, which mainly focuses on "mutable" infrastructure versus "immutable" infrastructure (Docker containers) is outdated in today's world.

Pros

I really liked the easy setup and the fact that it's a one stop solution with the amount of available plugins

Cons

For certain configuration you need to read the manual doesn't seem to be trivial titles. Also the wizards have good defaults but there should be an easier way for customization

Pros

Value for money, easily availablity of pluggins and more stable product

Cons

Improved UI and more user friendly console

Pros

The ability to extend monitoring to custom monitors

Cons

A steep learning curve to use portions of the product

Pros

Nagios XI provide a complete monitoring solution for any kind of server, application, web-service or network. User interface is easy to understand and simple to customize the layout or design for each user's priority. Nagios XI monitoring host fetch the quick data from nodes and GUI interact the data into the useful information. Configuration wizards simplify the setup process for new nodes monitoring. Integrated nodes trigger the notification if it needs to increase the capacity of the system. Configuration snapshot helps in saving the day in case of new check-in messed it up and you need a immediate rollback to the last working stage.

Cons

Schedule Reports are limited to enterprise but in case of Standard edition we need to setup the jobs to generate the schedule reports. Advance reporting should have some bulk server options. Monitoring of sensitive data like certificate expiry should have some simple wizards as configuring the web-service and then monitoring the certificate is a long process such need to be simplified.

Pros

I implemented a free version of the application to monitor my complex network, spreadout across multiple locations. While it took me several attempts to get it right, once installed, I was pleasanty surprised with what I saw. Having my network distributed across multiple locations, it was hard to monitor the upstate / resources of my servers and other network devices. Once I configure Nagious to my liking, I had every network device that I wanted to monitor on the consolidated map. Very simple configuration of the config files, once you get an idea of how to work them. Really great result for a free product

Cons

Being a Linux newbie, it did take me some poking around, before I got it right. You really have to understand the structure of the product and Linux OS itself to get it right. Config files were confusing at first, but once I figured them out, it was a breeze to add / remove hosts.

Pros

Nagios XI is a powerful monitoring tool for faults detection which provide the notification via push, email or SMS. Nagios XI allows us to rollback the configuration on the last working stage in case of fault detection. The new wizard is easy and provide multiple option at the time of setup. Nagios XI have an exclusive feature of bulk modification of attributes which help in to monitoring the same set on monitoring module on newly setup environment. Audit trails feature allow to scrutinize the modification or setup.

Cons

Mobile interface is newly develop and need more development, it should provide more option for audit log and add more detail for configuration rollback option. Scheduled report should be included in standard edition.

Pros

Unbosrding is fast and easy. Out of the box default monitoring metrics are really what you need to get started, they have a handful of ready to use plugins and in any other case you could build your own custom plugin real easy.

Cons

The GUI doesn't seem to be most updated and some of the features are hard to find (UX issue)

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Choosing Nagios XI

Reasons for Switching to Nagios XI

Pros

Nagios XI is an Enterprise level monitoring tool as it helps in monitoring the service, infrastructure and network. Powerful dashboard provides all the information at the one place which helps us to monitor the infrastructure. Security can be set on the muti-level users, as it allows the client to view the required components for which they are authorized. The GUI is also very user friendly. Customization wizards is also easy and layout can be configured according to the need of the infrastructure.

Cons

Master Node is configurable on LINUX platform only. So this makes it necessary to learn LINUX for team that will setup and implement it. Once the slave nodes are 80+ it makes the Nagios XI interface slow. The Mobile interface also needs more enhancements in it. Upgrading the advance version is also complex and pre planning and backups are also required for the cases.

Pros

It allows you to monitor many network devices, such as switches, routers, servers, helping to monitor network performance and track traffic on the network interface. very easy to install on a server, the interface is very intuitive, and has a variety of customization options since Nagios is an open source software which makes it easy to add custom scripts to extend the available services.

Cons

It is a bit difficult to configure, but once configured works very well, it continues to use add-ons that in some cases work perfectly but others are painful to work, the interface is a bit slow when you have many clients on the network, and the Search is very precise and does not look for possible matches.

Pros

Nagios XI is the only NMS being used in our infrastructure for monitoring LAN, WLAN, WAN, Virtual infrastructure and physical servers.
it supports almost all endpoint types and monitoring protocols.
it has built in templates for popular endpoints which makes it very easy to add them.

Cons

the reporting feature has limited templates and they cannot be edited.
you can create new templates but they also have limitations.
some reports cannot be run on groups of devices while others show very little information.

Pros

I really like the graphical user interface overlay on top of Nagios Core, it makes it so much easier to create monitors.

Cons

The only complaint I have with Nagios XI is not with the software but instead with the way that people do not take ownership for the monitors that they create. The software works great when done right.

Pros

The tool is simple to use and easy to deploy. Does it's job of performing good monitoring for network devices specially. Helpful in quick identification of issues and bottlenecks and help reduce MTTR

Cons

Certain features doesn't help you get down to the root-cause of the issues and investigation has to be done outside the tool.

Pros

The web inteface that includes and well designed dashboard, shows all events that happen on the network and loggs them at the same time. Capable of reading advanced information from many devices.

Cons

The intial configuration is time consuming, together with a need of many interventions.

Pros

We purchased this many years ago to monitor our infrastructure and it started off well

Cons

We found this solution very difficult to set up​ and their support was not much help.

Pros

The best infrastructure monitoring tool helps a lot in managing any server for IT infrastructure which Contains All Needed Features! First of all, the program has a very up-to-date and extremely user-friendly interface, which is highly flexible and scalable. Permits a user to customize almost everything according to the organization’s needs, as well as to streamline administrative procedures for alerts, reports, updates and the whole thing related to them. Second, it is possible to monitor the network even if it is implicit in numerous sites without major glitches, which would be more problematic without using this platform.

Cons

I like to be fixed rather than just dislike: it's not user-friendly with almost anything excluding Windows Operating System. A Linux version, for example, is visibly backward. This does not seem to be a serious issue for most people, but it is still considered a disadvantage. As I do not like the way the dashboards are supposed to be designed, I think it should be easier and take less time. The initial price is reasonable, but the policy at this point is doubtful.

Pros

Complete information/details about the alerts are present without needed to click on every alert for check for its details. Cost effective tool which can be used in major companies

Cons

When bulk alerts are received, they do not arrive in sequence. thus it increases the work of taking actions on alerts

Pros

we used nagios in some analysis tests of monitoring managers, we really liked its adaptability to monitoring of various cellular telecommunications networks. The management of statistics was very simple.

Cons

The only problem we encountered was licensing costs and support within Venezuela, specifically placing it below its competitors, but I believe that in a country without restrictions it can be an option.

Pros

Have multiple configuration options. Nice graphs and reports. Dashboard help to keep an eye on important thing that require attention.

Cons

Plugins. After version and version Nagios is still using plugins that in some case works perfectly but other is painful get they working. May a change of way to setup them would be interesting.

Pros

Easy to setup, secure, solid functionally and notification options.

Cons

Portions of the UI are somewhat dated by current standards.

Pros

- Ease to see the incidents in the network and solve them before they become big problems.
- Provides users with effective and scalable monitoring, which makes a big difference compared to other tools.
- In our Lab practices the configuration of remote access of users to any device through RDP, VNC, Telnet or SSH has been done very easily.
- Multi-user access to the web interface ensures that the components of the infrastructure for which they are authorized can be viewed.

Cons

- Although it belongs to a large community, sometimes it is not easy to understand the support of some scripts.
- Regarding the issue of vulnerabilities are always present in the different updates.

Pros

We introduced Nagios XI into our network a few years ago to help monitor network performance as well as for usage alerts. It has been a great tool to keep track of just about everything such as network interface traffic, volume sizes and service and process alerts. The web interface is pretty snappy and easy to get around in. The product just does it's job. We were considering Solarwinds NPM at the same time but glad we choose Nagios instead.

Cons

You need to a know a little Linux and it's a little complicated at first to set up more advanced alerting. However, with a little time, you can become a pro.

Pros

It's really fantastic, as soon as configure on Linux PC/server is really easy setup monitoring services and hardware

Cons

if you are not confident with Linux may be difficult ...

Pros

The Nagios XI has simple and user friendly interface. Therefore, it's very easy to monitor our servers daily.

Cons

It needs a little bit of large screen to monitor the map. Otherwise, it will little bit difficult to find out the servers.

Pros

The email functionality is very great! admins can immediately find down the device and the best thing is host recovery and down bird eye view.

Cons

Sometimes but a bit when you turn off the system and again turn on the database crashes and can cause nagios unstable.

Pros

*Easy to use
*It has a lot of good documentation
*Has a variety of customization options
*Easy configuration
*Stability and scalability
*Nagios is open source software
* is easy to add a custom scripts to extend the services available

Cons

*It would be great if nagios could manage the network, not just monitor it
*Many useful functions are disabled in the free version
*It would be excellent if nagios could monitor the bandwidth used
*La version enterprise es un poco costosa, pero es una excelente aplicacion

Pros

Allows me to monitor many network devices, such as switch, router among others, even servers,
The web map interface is very intuitive

Cons

It is a bit difficult to configure, but once configured it works very well, the web interface on mobile phones is very incomplete

Pros

This tool give us a lot of visibility of our work. Was ease to configure and get alerts and nice dashboards.

Cons

I can't make auto discovery of new services.

Pros

Extreme flexibility
Low cost
Perpetual license

Cons

You need to tell it what you want monitored and how, however this actually is a pro for us.

Pros

it is very easy to install in a server, and very intuitive when using, the interface is really fantastic, and the map mode really show you how is the structure of your network, and the status of your client and your nodes.

Cons

the interface is a little slow when you have a many clients in the network, and the search engine is very precise and does not look for possible match.

Pros

The UI and its functions are great ! Enjoy working on this tool.

Cons

Need to improve on its new features and get more features to enhance the tool

Pros

This monitoring tool is splendid to visualise the network topology to monitor. You can easily see which equipment has the problem.

Cons

If there is no wizard to monitor a host or service, it requires deep knowledge to configure the system

Pros

I manage server infrastructure of my company using this.

Cons

It is free up to 7 nodes.Expand infrastructures get this issue.

Pros

I really like the monitoring capabilities per network resources and hosts, the customization we can do we it is also amazing, and it is bring the product to higher levels along with it’s east of use

Cons

I lease liked in the product is the annoying bugs which occasionally prevents from working properly, combined with lack of response from the support I can’t say it perfect.

Pros

Me ha gustado su flexibilidad, ya que permite una amplia personalización con plugins y scripts para adaptarse a necesidades específicas.
También me gusta su capacidad para definir alertas. Su sistema de notificaciones es fiable y puede integrarse con múltiples canales de comunicación.
Permite la opción gratuita para 7 servidores.

Cons

La Interfaz de usuario, aunque funcional, su diseño es poco intuitivo y podría mejorarse en términos de usabilidad.
La curva de aprendizaje, ya que requiere un nivel técnico medio para configuraciones avanzadas, lo que puede ser un obstáculo para usuarios nuevos.

Pros

Son interface graphique , simple, agreable, son monitoring reseau

Cons

configuration pas facile, prix couteux,

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Choosing Nagios XI

Switched From

Reasons for Switching to Nagios XI