We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"We use the product to monitor server applications."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"I like that it's very simple to install, easy to manage and deploy, and easy to use for monitoring."
"Other products are good but from the configuration point of view Nagios is really very lightweight. The price is really good in my opinion. Another important thing is that my Nagios engine still works with Dual core 8GB ram for the last 10 years."
"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."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"If you're in the market for a low-cost service desk system, Spiceworks is a good software solution to start out with, especially when it comes to startups and those organizations that don't currently have any existing service desk software in place."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"Spiceworks' dashboard allows you to drill down to the notes, where I can take an inventory of the network and see the devices I need to monitor."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"The solution is easy to use and easy to manage."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"It shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know up front."
"There is room for improvement in the graphics."
"We're using the free version, which limits us in terms of the things that we can do. If we had the paid version, a lot of our issues would probably go away. For example, we can't isolate instances that are being built or updated with the production ones. When they're being built, on Nagios, they're showing in red. It'd be nice to be able to partition those off until they're all green, and then we can bring them into the environment. This is probably because we've got the free version and not the paid version. If we went for the paid version, it would probably allow us to do exactly what we want to or remove the restrictions that we have, but if we are able to isolate instances in the free version, it would make life much easier."
"The mapping is a little hard."
"Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"I would like to see more training videos."
"The tool needs to improve the integrations."
"Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it."
"It would be nice to have remote access to the solution via a tablet. They also need remote control from a PC. Right now, to complete the technical support process, you have to have a tool to access the PC, and check the problems."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"With Spiceworks, like, when I open the websites, I have to Zoom in. I need to zoom in on those websites sometimes because it makes it horrible to use."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"I would like to see more information when drilling down into access permissions, assignments management, or tagging. When I click a note or a device, I should be able to see more details about the router and modem. For example, I want to see the version, downtime, availability, latency, etc. I should have easy access to everything about our assets at a glance."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
Nagios Core is ranked 7th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 46 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 33rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while Spiceworks 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 Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". Nagios Core is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, Icinga, Centreon and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and SolarWinds NPM. See our Nagios Core vs. Spiceworks report.
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