Nagios Network Analyzer vs Plixer Scrutinizer comparison

Nagios and Plixer are both solutions in the Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) category. Nagios is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.5, while Plixer is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.0. Nagios holds a 1.1% mindshare in NTA, compared to Plixer’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Nagios users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Plixer users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 6, 2024

Plixer Scrutinizer and Nagios Network Analyzer are both prominent network analysis tools, each with unique strengths. Plixer Scrutinizer seems to have the upper hand due to its ease of deployment and superior customer service.

Features: Users highlight Plixer Scrutinizer's comprehensive traffic analysis, robust reporting capabilities, and ease of deployment. Nagios Network Analyzer is noted for its scalability, sophisticated monitoring, and rich feature set.

Room for Improvement: Plixer Scrutinizer could enhance its integration options, improve alarm management, and optimize performance during peak usage. Nagios Network Analyzer needs a more intuitive setup process, better documentation, and enhanced user interface design.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Plixer Scrutinizer is praised for its straightforward deployment and exceptional customer support. Nagios Network Analyzer users indicate a steeper learning curve and less responsive support. Thus, Plixer Scrutinizer offers a more user-friendly and supported experience.

Pricing and ROI: Reviews suggest Plixer Scrutinizer has a higher setup cost with a notably strong ROI due to its comprehensive features. Nagios Network Analyzer, while more affordable initially, may yield a lower ROI because of its complex deployment and user training costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Nagios Network Analyzer

Ranking in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

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Plixer Scrutinizer

Ranking in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

10th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) category, the mindshare of Nagios Network Analyzer is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plixer Scrutinizer is 2.2%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

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Gilbert Mwiinga

Baobab College logo System Administrator at Baobab College

Effectively monitors the uptime of all equipment and network connectivity

There is room for improvement on the setup side. It's not very user-friendly, especially for those who aren't tech-savvy. I find it a bit hard to set up initially. It could be done better to make it easier to configure. It would be beneficial for users. For additional features, I have an idea. I'm not sure if it's already there, but it would be great to have a feature that maps the network and shows which devices are connected. It could provide information about how traffic flows and offer a visual representation of how devices are physically connected to each other. It would be like a network audit feature that displays the connections between switches and other devices. So, in future releases, a network mapping and visualization feature would be valuable.

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Ronald Jansen

Owner/President at Abraxax

Reporting is extensive, flexible, and can be custom-made in just a short time

In terms of additional features I'd like to see in the next release of Plixer Scrutinizer, I can't think of any because you can do some integration with other monitoring tools that are not strong in NetFlow or don't have NetFlow at all. There are also some integration possibilities in the product, plus there are alerts, too. Plixer Scrutinizer is a pretty complete product. There was a price lift because previously the product was privately owned, and now there is some external capital in the organization, so pricing could be lower, though, for Plixer Scrutinizer, there is almost no competition at this price point.

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Pros

"The initial setup is easy."

"I have found that it has a good GUI and user-friendly administration."

"The solution offers very good system monitoring. It's easy to manage your network, as well as your hardware and software. It's really useful."

"Network tracking is the most valuable feature of Network Analyzer."

"The network monitoring feature, especially, stands out to me."

"It is highly customizable and can be integrated well with third-party software."

"The solution is useful for monitoring network devices."

"Its initial setup process is straightforward."

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"One of the most valuable features of Plixer Scrutinizer is the reporting, particularly how easy it is to drill down into the reports. Another valuable feature of the solution is its overall visibility. It's great. I also liked Plixer Scrutinizer in terms of deployment time and that it's very simple to set up. Once you get the appliance set up and connected, the customer starts to see results immediately, versus other solutions where that could take a while."

"One feature I found most valuable in Plixer Scrutinizer is the very extensive reporting. Reporting is very flexible, though sometimes you need a little bit of support from Plixer Scrutinizer to create custom-made reporting in a very short time. Reporting is a very strong feature of the product."

"Visualization of the network traffic is the most valuable feature. It allows you to drill into information quite quickly."

"The solution helps to enrich the data context of our network traffic. It allows me to see what applications are most in use on a slightly historical basis, going back a day or week at tops. It allows me to tune QoS or traffic shaping around what's being used. It saves me from having to unnecessarily upgrade, if I don't need to."

"The most valuable features of Plixer Scrutinizer are its ease of use, accessibility, and UI."

"The reporting and generating troubleshooting reports would be the best feature; our host-to-host conversation reporting."

"We have had many requests to understand in the network which devices are connected to others. Most people don't have this information or are able to establish a map of data flow everywhere around the network. Scrutinizer can really help with this. We are using it to understand who is talking to what, how, and which protocols can help us to improve security and analyze flow."

"As a network engineer, the ability to identify what traffic on the link is consuming all the bandwidth at any given time, and provide immediate feedback to the business, is the most valuable feature."

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Cons

"The bandwidth for its front-end version needs enhancement."

"I think the reports can be improved. They're adopted."

"Nagios Network Analyzer should integrate an application monitoring solution to monitor application bandwidth usage."

"They need to have some automation models embedded in them."

"It has an old-fashioned interface."

"There is room for improvement on the setup side."

"There are some loopholes you need to be aware of from a security perspective."

"The graphics and reports can be a little bit better."

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"Though Plixer Scrutinizer has network detection and response, it's an area that needs just a little more rounding out. Another room for improvement in the solution is its lack of SaaS offering which some customers were looking for. My company deals in small to medium businesses, mid-market, and some customers wanted the SaaS feature which Plixer Scrutinizer doesn't offer. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for it to have a SaaS offering because my company also deals with educational spaces and smaller businesses that just don't have the staff that can implement this. If there's either a managed service or SaaS-based offering to just make it a little easier for those types of customers, it would be a great addition to Plixer Scrutinizer."

"For updating the Scrutinizer platform, when we have the actual data, it never happens in one day. Every time we have the data, we are obliged to install a new server in order to integrate the old data, and every time it has a problem. Most of the time, we were obliged to scrap all the data because we couldn't transfer it to the new server. So, it would be very good if they could improve this part."

"They're working on the security areas, so it can provide more insight. What they have is still pretty much IP-concentric. If they were to make it IP and URL, they'd be a little bit ahead on that."

"I wish the reporting side was easier to work with, but it does a decent job. I also wish the reporting side was a little more intuitive or they offered more reporting examples."

"Knowing that they're coming out with a new user interface, that is an area where there is room for improvement. There are so many variables. They should limit the variables in the user interface and create some classes, like "simple," "novice," and "expert" to narrow down the variables within it."

"It would be useful if there was a way to back up the configuration information. E.g., if you wanted to deploy a new instance or disaster recovery, you could quite easily deploy and restore the config, as opposed to having to restore all the NetFlow data. If there was just a button that said "backup config information", that would be good."

"The solution creates a visual map of a particular location and how the network flows. You need to spend time to generate all those maps. If they could figure out a way to reduce the time needed to generate the maps, that would be great."

"There is room for improvement around the data that they have on the website about solutions... they should have more templated solutions on their website. Going out and identifying how to do RTP performance with a Cisco router, or how to do application response times in an Arrista data center deployment was where most of the work was... They should spend some more time documenting solutions and putting together white papers."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate Nagios Network Analyzer's pricing a six out of ten."

"The solution is cost-efficient."

"They charge around ten thousand per month for one thousand nodes. That is their overall cost, but it differs on which company you are applying to, whether you are a service provider or an enterprise."

"It's about €10,000 a year for initial license and yearly maintenance costs. In addition, the hardware costs are about €10,000 once every five years."

"Currently, the license for Plixer Scrutinizer is subscription-based and at a yearly fee. The price would depend on the amount of traffic you pull in. For example, there are several blocks from a 10K flow, a 40K flow, and a 100K flow, and based on the number of devices that you receive the flows from, that's the license, and it is not a per-interface pricing model, so that is a very strong, very competitive pricing feature of Plixer Scrutinizer. Licensing for the product is also not based on the number of storage, compared to some competing products that are priced based on the amount of storage you need, particularly based on the retention and the amount of data. Plixer Scrutinizer licensing is based on the device, and it's more in the direction of $10,000 because, with just $1,000, you don't have anything."

"We pay our one-off cost for the licenses, per device, in blocks of 50. And then we pay an annual maintenance fee of about $15,000 Australian, which is, at this point in time, about $9,000 US, for those 250 devices. The upfront costs for the 250-license use, were about $50,000 Australian, which is about $32,000 US."

"Compared to some of the other tools we have, it's incredibly reasonably priced."

"The licensing cost for Plixer Scrutinizer is in the middle. It's not the cheapest, but it's not the most expensive. Its licensing model is based on how many exporters, how many devices export information to the system. Plixer Scrutinizer has different modules you could add such as the security module which would cost extra."

"Our entire solution, amortized over five years, is in the vicinity of $40,000 to $50,000 a year."

"The license is per device. We have 50 devices."

"We have increased the license over time. We have added more licenses as the network has grown."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Nagios Network Analyzer?

The solution is useful for monitoring network devices.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios Network Analyzer?

I rate Nagios Network Analyzer's pricing a six out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Nagios Network Analyzer?

It’s an old solution. It has an old-fashioned interface. The product must provide a compliance testing feature.

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What do you like most about Plixer Scrutinizer?

Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Plixer Scrutinizer?

I rate Plixer Scrutinizer's price a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price or affordable, and ten is high price or expensive.

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What needs improvement with Plixer Scrutinizer?

I don't have deep enough knowledge to comment on what requires improvements in Plixer Scrutinizer. In Plixer Scrutinizer, scalability is an area with minor concerns where improvements are required.

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Overview

Nagios Enterprises delivers official products, services, and solutions for and around Nagios – the industry standard in enterprise-grade IT infrastructure monitoring. With millions of users worldwide, Nagios is the undisputed champion in the IT monitoring space. Our team of dedicated professionals works to ensure total customer satisfaction with all the services we provide. Our extensive network of partners helps extend Nagios services and solutions to new organizations and markets worldwide to meet a variety of business needs. Nagios Enterprises was founded in 2007 by Ethan Galstad. Ethan created what would later become known as Nagios in 1999, and currently serves as the President of Nagios Enterprises.

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The Scrutinizer incident response system leverages network traffic analytics to provide active monitoring, visualization, and reporting of network and security incidents. The system quickly delivers the rich forensic data needed by IT professionals to support fast and efficient incident response.

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NuBlue, St.Elisabeth Hospital, Akamit Systems, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, ValueClick, Sunrise Banks

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