We compared Nagios XI and PRTG Network Monitor across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Nagios XI received positive feedback for its versatility and adaptability. It offers a diverse selection of plugins and scripts for monitoring needs. PRTG Network Monitor customers like its user-centric approach, straightforward reporting, and customizability.
Room for Improvement: Users have suggested Nagios XI could improve integration, simplify configuration, and make the platform more user-friendly. Nagios XI users also suggest improvements to network visibility and cloud discovery. PRTG Network Monitor could improve its performance and resource efficiency. Other pain points include usability and cross-platform compatibility.
Service and Support: Some Nagios XI customers complained about the lack of chat or phone support options. PRTG Network Monitor received mixed reviews for its customer service. Some users commended the support team’s prompt service, while others reported slow response times and noted the lack of remote session support.
Ease of Deployment: Some Nagios XI users found the setup to be relatively simple, while others considered it challenging. Deployment can take a few months to complete, and there’s a steep learning curve. PRTG Network Monitor’s setup isn’t considered to be overly complex. Deployment times may vary depending on the environment's complexity and device count.
Pricing: Nagios XI’s pricing is considered reasonable and transparent, with no extra charges. PRTG Network Monitor is deemed reasonably priced and cheaper than its competitors.
ROI: Nagios XI users reported positive outcomes overall, but some said visibility limitations lower the solution’s ROI. Users said that PRTG Network Monitor has proven to save time and money through automation and proactive support.
Comparison Results: Nagios XI is an affordable, flexible solution with a broad feature set and a selection of helpful plugins. At the same time, users say the setup can be complex, and some expressed a desire for more convenient ways to contact support. PRTG Network Monitor is regarded as a simple, user-friendly, and cost-effective solution, but users would like to see improvements in performance, documentation, integration, and technical support.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"Nagios XI helps us monitor the bandwidth of the internet connection, HTTP, DNS, active directory services, and exchange data availability. We have multiple servers to monitor databases, availability of servers, and ping."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"It is easy when it comes to dependencies of devices, so if your router goes down, the three or four switches behind it will automatically be paused so that you don't get multiple alerts."
"Stable solution for monitoring networks and bandwidth, with multiple functions and features such as NetFlow Collector, graphical monitoring, etc."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The solution is scalable."
"The authentication links into our standard Active Directory authentication, which is very good."
"Good compilation of the system's information."
"I would boldly say that this is the most scalable network monitoring tool that I know of"
"The solution is easy to manage and the reports are very accurate."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up."
"The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors."
"The PNP4Nagios plugin not working easily with XI is an issue for me, because some open source monitoring plugins do not work out of the box. But in the end, you learn to live with it."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The thing that we do struggle with a bit is in the historic data. If I want look over 30 days, because it averages out onto one graph, you can't zoom in and drill down information."
"We're using more cloud services now. It would be useful to be able to get information back from these cloud services in detail, and display any issues within PRTG for the rest of our systems."
"Improvements in data storage flexibility, such as allowing customers to specify data retention periods, would enhance PRTG."
"I am not sure the solution is giving me all the needed feedback that we need. When something goes off on our IT infrastructure, it does tell me. However, it would be nice if it gave more intuitive information, e.g., the hard drive has gone up by 60 percent in an hour."
"We would like to monitor certain aspects of the user experience. We should be able to analyze the cause of end user experience, bad or good, so we can do some research and development on our own."
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve by having a feature to allow uploading of preset standard network switch configurations and the ability to monitor the SLA configuration, such as uptime for the switches or internet connectivity. This would be very useful."
"The solution could be better and faster when it comes to performance."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve by adding prevention and detection features."
Nagios XI is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 54 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, Wireshark, Icinga and SCOM, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, SolarWinds NPM, ManageEngine OpManager and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Nagios XI vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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I have been given a project at work to compare PRTG and observer , is the any one with that kind of information , I need to prepare the document in a weeks time for system users . can you please assist if you have any kind of information .
thanks
Hi,
I've no experience with PRTG, but you can find that on their site:
www.paessler.com
I used to practice some time ago Nagios, on Linux boxes with web Logic, and
it adapted well to our needs.
I'm no longer experimenting with supervision tools as i switched to backup and
storage.
Regards
E.Boutang
PRTG is a network monitoring tool that uses SNMP protocol. You can configure weblogic server to use SNMP protocol to communicate with PRTG using agents.
The same thing for Oracle ESB, by enabling SNMP traps in the Oracle Servcie bus.
I think your business requirement as well as budget, will determine which
monitoring tool you can use.
I think all network monitoring tools, using SNMP traps, can do the job. Any SW or applications can build an SNMP traps to communicate with the monitoring tool.
You can consult Oracle's manuals for more details.
I hope this will be helpful.
All the best,
Ashraf Galal