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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

"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."
"The machine learning feature is valuable."
"It sends alerts to the right people which ensures there is no delay in the correct person or team looking into issues, and it has helped to reduce downtime in the production environment to almost zero so we now spend less time on network or server administration."
"This is probably the greatest advantage of Nagios - it can be customized to a degree to suit your monitoring needs."
"The notifications are definitely one of the most valuable features of Nagios Core. We know what to look for and what to expect when things are down."
"The most valuable feature depends on the project. It's great if you need to check to ensure a service is running 24/7. I can use the full solution for free, and it's flexible. If I need to add a dashboard, I can integrate it with Nagios. Cloud synchronization is wonderful."
"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."
"This product covers all of our infrastructure health checks, and has triggers for us to alert us to any unusual behaviour of the monitored systems."
"The reporting structure and the feature set are valuable to me."
"What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."
 

Cons

"The GUI must be improved. Graphs must be changed including high level maps"
"They can improve the functionality that provides some numbers related to the behavior of the metrics."
"One of the major improvements should be it implementation as a SaaS"
"Default interface is clunky and slow."
"The initial setup was complex, mainly because it was in Linux and had many packages that we're not used to."
"Nagios Core is not easy to use, so I don't recommend it for everyone."
"t was a little hard to get our setup represented in the configuration."
"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."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"Lessening the price point would be an improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Nagios Core is free to use."
"We are using the free version of Nagios Core."
"The solution is expensive."
"Nagios Core is a cheap solution."
"We are using the free version."
"The enterprise version has technical support. The version we are using is free."
"Most the plugin features are free."
"It's free."
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Top Industries

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

Company Size

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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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Sample Customers

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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