Nagios XI uses a powerful Core 4 monitoring engine that provides users with the highest levels of server monitoring performance. This high degree of performance enables nearly limitless scalability and monitoring powers.
With Nagios XI, stakeholders can check up on their infrastructure status using the role-based web interface. Sophisticated dashboards enable access to monitoring information and third-party data. Administrators can easily set up permissions so users can only access the infrastructure they are authorized to view.
Nagios XI Benefits and Features
Some of the benefits and top features of using Nagios XI include:
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Extensive IT infrastructure monitoring: Comprehensively monitor all of your organization’s infrastructure’s components. Hundreds of third-party add-ons let you monitor virtually any internal application, service, or system.
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Proactivity: With built-in, automated trend analysis and capacity planning charts, organizations can plan infrastructure upgrades before legacy systems encounter unexpected issues. IT staff, business stakeholders, and end users are notified via email or SMS with details of the outage so they can begin handling the issue immediately.
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Multiple integration options: Numerous available APIs allow seamless integration with in-house and third-party applications. Thousands of community-developed add-ons that extend monitoring and native alerting capabilities as well as custom interfaces are available, allowing you to customize Nagios XI to your company's needs.
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Complete visibility: Get a single view of your entire IT operations network and business processes. The Nagios XI dashboards provide at-a-glance access to monitoring information and third-party data. Views give users quick access to the most useful information.
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User-friendly interface: Customize the layout, design, and settings for each user’s GUI, providing clients and team members with the flexibility they need. Administrators can easily delegate control over monitoring configuration management, system settings, and more to end users and team members using the built-in web-based configuration interface. A configuration wizard guides users through the process of monitoring new devices, services, and applications without understanding complex monitoring concepts.
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Configuration snapshots: Snapshots allow you to save and archive your most recent configurations. Later on, you can revert back to them whenever you like.
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Advanced user management: Ensure a secure infrastructure environment by easily setting up and managing user accounts and assigning custom roles with just a few mouse clicks.
Reviews from Real Users
Nagios XI stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its integration options and monitoring abilities, as well as its alerting features.
David P., a senior DevOps engineer at EML Payments Ltd, writes, “We use Nagios as a network discovery tool. We use Nagios to maintain our uptime statistics and to monitor our services. It has allowed us to be much more sophisticated in our monitoring and alerting.”
An IT-OSS manager at a comms service provider notes, “Nagios XI has a custom API feature, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature.”
Scalability of this solution can be done by several ways:
1. Using Nagios Fusion: You can install several instance of Nagios (XI or Core) and then you can add them to Fusion. Now you can see all the results of all instances in a single panel. You can use several Nagios Core without any payment and just buy this product from Nagios, now you can have a good UI include single panel for your monitoring systems. (This solution includes payment to Nagios for Fusion product)
2. Using Mod Gearman: You can install Mod Gearman module on your server an install Mod Gearman Workers on other servers as Worker (Poller) server. Now Nagios (XI or Core) can spread all the Host and service monitoring checks to Worker servers. This solution used to distribute the monitoring solution and suitable for large scale (more than 4K Hosts include their services). I'm using this solution now for more than 24K Hosts and 16 services for each host on a single instance of Nagios XI. (This Solution is free of charge)
3. Federated Monitoring: In this model, remote networks and their elements are monitored by dedicated Nagios servers. Each remote Nagios server may be managed by central NOC staff or by the client. Notifications, reports, and configuration is generally handled by each remote Nagios server. Now Remote Nagios servers can be configured to transfer check results (status information) back to a central Nagios XI server at the NOC. This allows NOC staff to have a birds-eye view of the entire network, and provides them with centralized reporting and optional notifications. This Solution is suitable for the infrastructure that located on several Geo locations and need to monitor from a central NOC. (This solution is free of charge)