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Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs Nagios XI comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

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Sentiment score
8.4
Auvik's support is praised for responsiveness and expertise, resolving issues quickly, despite occasional slow responses or escalation challenges.
Sentiment score
7.3
Nagios XI support is professional and prompt, though costly, with comprehensive resources lessening the need for direct assistance.
They were knowledgeable and responded quickly with accurate and useful information.
 

Room For Improvement

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Sentiment score
5.4
Auvik Network Management requires better reporting, interface usability, alert configuration, third-party integration, and improved performance and feature support.
Sentiment score
3.9
Nagios XI requires better integration, user interface, documentation, and enhanced features for easier setup and improved management capabilities.
We were unable to integrate Auvik with a geographical map, which limited our ability to track issues to specific buildings on campus.
The GUI could be improved. It's a bit too basic.
 

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
8.0
Auvik Network Management excels in scalability and deployment, efficiently managing multiple sites with minor limitations in large networks.
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Nagios XI is scalable for various environments, but complex performance and limited documentation challenge extensive infrastructures.
 

Setup Cost

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Sentiment score
7.2
Auvik Network Management offers value-driven pricing per network device, with flexibility and clear billing but increasing costs for more devices.
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Nagios XI offers cost-effective monitoring with free and paid versions, though enterprise deployment may involve complex licensing and higher costs.
Auvik is pricey, and we were paying a lot for it, especially when compared to SolarWinds.
We are using the free, open-source version.
 

Stability Issues

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Sentiment score
8.2
Auvik Network Management is highly reliable, with excellent stability, proactive notifications, and minimal downtime, earning users' trust.
Sentiment score
7.5
Nagios XI is stable with minimal performance issues, requiring occasional tweaks, and is ideal for large-scale infrastructure monitoring.
 

Valuable Features

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Sentiment score
8.2
Auvik offers real-time mapping, alerts, automated backups, and remote management, enhancing network efficiency and facilitating rapid troubleshooting.
Sentiment score
8.5
Nagios XI provides customizable, scalable monitoring with extensive plugin support, real-time insights, and integration, improving user experience and flexibility.
Auvik Core's ease of use also enhanced troubleshooting speed and efficiency.
The alerting system is very effective.
 

Categories and Ranking

Juniper Mist Premium Analytics
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Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
58th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Auvik Network Management (ANM)
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
185
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (3rd), Network Troubleshooting (3rd), Cloud Monitoring Software (3rd), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (2nd)
Nagios XI
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
Server Monitoring (8th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (12th), Cloud Monitoring Software (16th)
 

Featured Reviews

ALEXANDRE VIANNA - PeerSpot reviewer
Has a single dashboard, but is expensive
We use this solution to manage our mission environment The single dashboard is a valuable feature.  The technical support needs improvement. The initial setup is straightforward. The solution is expensive. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten.  Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of…
Jeremy Campbell - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables us to get on top of issues before they become an outage
When I change IP addresses on a device or on a server, I have to wait for Auvik to figure out that change. It will tell me the device is offline until Auvik scans the whole subnet again and finds it. If I change 25 devices, I'll get 50 emails in a short time because they've gone offline. I'd love the ability to change that where I can update that device with the IP address without it going offline. That goes against the idea of a system that dynamically scans. It's information overload sometimes when you need to change a bunch of factors. You get inundated with emails. I would almost love a button whenever you first log in that says maintenance window, and then it would maybe take some of those alerts away. It's fairly intuitive but sometimes you have to search for things because it's hidden in the user interface, so I think that could be improved a little bit. The search could be better because they have these strange search terms. Instead of being able to look for what you want, you have to lay out the query in a specific way to get results. We've also been dealing with some weird bugs lately. We get alerts on miscellaneous items that go offline and online all the time. I've reached out to support, and they said that they've got a fix that they rolled out. However, we're still experiencing the issue, so I've got to work with them to fix that. They seem to be on top of the support.
FakhruddinLokhandwala - PeerSpot reviewer
A simple monitoring tool that is scalable and stable
Nagios XI doesn't provide scripting. For example, if we have built up multiple IPX tunnels from a base location to a data center location and want to monitor or trigger an alert if the tunnel goes down, Nagios XI does not automatically send alerts notifying us that the tunnel is down. This is a feature we want, and in the past, Nagios completed scripting for us, but it didn't work out well. In addition, Nagios XI doesn't have a feature where we can push the configuration from the server to all our devices. For example, if there are 500 devices in our network and we need to write down a simple command like a show clock or want to write the configuration, we cannot execute this command on all of our devices. We have already raised this issue with Nagios, and they told us they would speak with the BU team to see if this can be applied in the next release. If they do, it will come with an additional license. Another feature we want is the IP SLA Tracking in Cisco. For example, if our ISP connection is traversing through an L2 point, which is a layer two point, we don't have IP-to-IP communication to track those interfaces. So if we need to implement something end-to-end and the interface goes down, we should get alerts for that. And if the interface goes down, there should be specific behaviour so that our traffic can switch over from the LAN or the WAN. That is not in the current Nagios deployment, but they have advised they are working on it.
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Comparison Review

it_user174738 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 31, 2015
Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor
I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
19%
Educational Organization
8%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Educational Organization
59%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Juniper Mist Premium Analytics?
We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points.
What do you like most about Auvik?
The most valuable feature for us in Auvik is the network topology.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Auvik?
Auvik is expensive, but given how much we use it and how many hours it is saving over the year, it is justified. Ther...
What needs improvement with Auvik?
There are a couple of items here and there that float around disconnected from the network map. That is annoying beca...
What do you like most about Nagios XI?
It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios XI?
Nagios XI is an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the s...
What needs improvement with Nagios XI?
From an alerting point of view, some graphics and metrics don't work properly with Nagios XI as they do with Checkmk....
 

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Sample Customers

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Nagios has over one million users globally, including AOL, DHL, McAfee, MCI, MTV, Yahoo!, Universal, Toshiba, Sony, Siemens, and JPMorgan Chase.
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