We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"Provides timely notifications."
"We use the product to monitor server applications."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"I like that it's very simple to install, easy to manage and deploy, and easy to use for monitoring."
"Alert calls occur anytime a service goes down or a matrix is difficult and that helps us to quickly restore service and transfer work."
"Key features include the GUI interface, its notification capabilities, and the real-time reporting."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is the ability to check the availability of the server for network connectivity. Additionally, the interface is good."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"The tool needs to improve the integrations."
"It is a bit slow due to latency."
"I would like to see more training videos."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
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Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Icinga, Centreon and OP5 Monitor, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Nagios Core vs. SCOM report.
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