Nagios Log Server Reviews

In my company, we use Nagios Log Server as our data center.

The product has benefitted my organization. In terms of SLA in Nagios, there has been an improvement of 80 to 90 percent.

The use cases were to monitor the aggregate health of the servers, which were running in my infrastructure.

One of the most valuable features is the dashboard because the UI was effective and easy to use.

The alert systems are good as well.

We had no failovers and had high availability.

We can search the queries fast as well in Nagios Log Server.

It's for analyzing logs in the web server. For example, if there is a password authentication failure attempt happening on a Windows server, we need to check how many times this logging failure happened. We can check in Log Server for the logs and check all machines whenever password authentication failures happen. We can also see if there is some DDoS there. If so, the server will send the logs to the Nagios Log Server, and we can get them in the dashboard. We can even set up alerts for these types of logs.

It's easy to add the client host to Log Server, and we can manage everything easily. We can see the logs easily through the web dashboard, and there are different charts available for viewing. 

Also, we can, using a search tool, we can query for events. If something happens in the server, we can query and trigger alerts. We can trigger alerts if some query happened in the server.

The product is scalable. 

A great feature of the solution involves its internal portal. The architecture is based on the open source and I find it very easy to use. Their community team developed many parts that I can use with my customers. The monitoring I have done makes configuring easier.

The most important feature involves the pricing, which I found to be quite affordable when it comes to the setting by us of one of our product services. 

The Log Server should be addressed. Primarily, my customers would appreciate updates regarding the GI. They wish to know how I obtained a part from one server and, consequently, which improvements can be made. 

For my part, there is no one specific module that I wish to upgrade. We are not at the point in Malaysia of adding much log analysis. The customer usually does not provide feedback and is generally not involved in the planning stages or in the generating of ideas, in so far as upgrades for the product are concerned. 

When it comes to administrative needs, the solution is not a share product that can be passed on to the end user for direct administration. For the majority of our customers, services are purchased for monitoring or supplying the license, installation, management and administrative needs throughout the contractual period. For me to rate this product a perfect score of ten, it would need to have the capabilities allowing a person who lacks any IT knowledge to use and administer it.

Also, as we are talking about a product which is open to the public, the pricing makes it challenging for us to profit off of its marketing. 

Over the past year I have occasionally sold the solution for its monitoring capabilities, which sees a combining of the vendor and data center maintenance capabilities. As such, the solution can be purchased directly from the website, which means I do not have a mechanism to guarantee my protection, since I am the one who will be introducing the solution to the customer. 

While it is possible that those in charge of the solution's technical aspects would have more to add, this is what I can come up with offhand.