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Centerity Monitor vs Nagios Core comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Centerity Monitor
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
75th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Nagios Core
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
12th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Centerity Monitor is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Core is 1.7%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nagios Core1.7%
Centerity Monitor0.5%
Other97.8%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1312155 - PeerSpot reviewer
Andean Region Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
A user-friendly solution that comes with a valuable machine learning feature
We use Centerity to monitor some business views related with ERP systems. For example we use this monitor to mesure electronic billing process. As a part of digital Transformation process coporation automates some process to avoid delays and human mistakes and we incorporated Centerity Platform to…
HY
Senior System Administrator at Interactive Group
Monitoring solution provides comprehensive visibility across IT infrastructure
The good thing about Nagios Core is it covers everything. Everything in the IT domain, you can monitor anything. You can even monitor printers, the ports of printers, Core workstations, and storage. You can monitor the workflow Core and the utilization of computes. If you want to grasp everything of your IT equipment on a single interface, you can use Nagios. It's the best one. It provides dashboards, and you can also configure your emails and alerts with it. If something is critical, you can configure it to notify via emails. It has a very handy dashboard, providing live alerts and visibility for everything.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The machine learning feature is valuable."
"Centerity is much more than a monitoring tool — it’s a unified, end-to-end, enterprise-class and multi-tenanted AIOps Platform that is purpose-built to help MSPs and data-centers deliver the highest levels of up-time and performance."
"The Centerity gives us exactly what we need from performance system monitoring."
"What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."
"The reporting structure and the feature set are valuable to me."
"This is probably the greatest advantage of Nagios - it can be customized to a degree to suit your monitoring needs."
"Reliability Security Flexibility Functionality Availability - controllability anywhere and with different methods"
"We've got a medium size distributed system with a lot of locally installed machines, and Nagios provides us with a solid and reliable monitoring solution for these machines."
"Inspite of this limitation it is a fantastic product to use at zero cost"
"The features of Nagios Core that we find most valuable are the plugins we use, we can check the uptime and see how many servers and routers and create groups accordingly."
"The good thing about Nagios Core is it covers everything."
 

Cons

"They can improve the functionality that provides some numbers related to the behavior of the metrics."
"The GUI must be improved. Graphs must be changed including high level maps"
"One of the major improvements should be it implementation as a SaaS"
"Nagios Core is not easy to use, so I don't recommend it for everyone."
"When compared to earlier versions, it looks like 4.x has lost the statusmap.cgi module."
"Nagios SLA. I'm currently working on Nagios Digger, which has many code-level problems."
"I would like to see a much better Nagios Manager GUI that can support all type of configuration items, and advance search options."
"They should simplify the features so it becomes easier to setup out of the box."
"Don't use it. If you're starting from scratch, there are products that scale better and perform better, and they use the same plugin syntax as they were initially Nagios forks."
"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."
"Application level monitoring is limited."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The product is cheaply priced."
"We are using the free version of Nagios Core."
"We are using the free version."
"Nagios Core is an open source solution, and there are no licensing fees."
"The enterprise version has technical support. The version we are using is free."
"The Nagios Core (PNP4Nagios + Core) is free and can be setup by Netadmin within a few hours. The only additional cost is the cloud server."
"It's free."
"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise24
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios Core?
Nagios Core is a free and open-source product. We don't charge for the product itself, but we charge for the man-hour costs related to installation, configuration, ongoing operation, and maintenance.
What needs improvement with Nagios Core?
The dashboard should be improved. It's very simple. I don't have a very clear or specific suggestion. You can change the skin of the dashboard, however, it's good for me.
What is your primary use case for Nagios Core?
I was a senior system administrator. I've been using Nagios Core for more than ten years now. It can be used to monitor hosts, such as machines, and monitor services of any kind. I'm using it to mo...
 

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Centerity Systems has thousands of customers world wide, including Fortune 500 Enterprises such as Cisco, General Electric, Siemens, Harris Corporation, and Coca-Cola.
Airbnb, Cisco, PayPal, FanDuel
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