We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"Nagios Core is stable."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"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."
"Our customers like that Nagios Core is an open source solution. It can be customized to our customers' specific needs."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth."
"It doesn't cost too much."
"The program is scalable enough for our usage."
"They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It would be nice if the company offered a sales or contract manager that was dedicated to our company so that we would have some sort of link to Nagios, and if we had issues or questions, we'd be able to contact them directly."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"It is a bit slow due to latency."
"There is room for improvement in the graphics."
"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."
"Making it a little easier to configure and set up from the start would help. There are multiple layers that you have to wade through to be able to set it up, to do it the right way, and to get it to do what you want it to do."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"Nagios Core is limited in terms of distributed setups, and there is no central view for remote data centers."
"This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself."
"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky."
"The pricing is expensive."
"One area that we struggle with is the price. Because the price of this solution is so high, we are largely unable to introduce it into the local market, and only the banking sector has the means to afford it."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"The problem is that SolarWinds is trying to bolt in too much and that can leave bugs, which you have to then sort out, leaving the product unstable. SolarWinds needs to try and slow down and improve the stability of the product, as opposed to bringing out more and more features."
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Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". Nagios Core is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, Icinga, Centreon and OP5 Monitor, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Zabbix, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM and Darktrace. See our Nagios Core vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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