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Nagios XI pros and cons

Vendor: Nagios

4.0 out of 5

58 reviews
83% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Nagios XI offers customizable features and extensive plugin support, ideal for monitoring various devices and services with stable performance and effective alerting systems. It integrates well with existing tools, supporting seamless system integration via APIs. While its installation process and ease of use are highlights, improvements are needed in the administrative UI, reporting, and technical support. Enhancing installation and monitoring setups and expanding integration capabilities could broaden connectivity.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

The script module in Nagios is easy to use and cost-efficient, allowing users to monitor specific metrics with basic scripting skills.

Open source technology enables users to monitor anything by writing plugins in any scripting language, integrating easily with a wide range of devices.

The dashboard provides a summary for hundreds of servers, simplifying the overall system monitoring process.

Customization options allow users to modify and implement scripts based on their requirements, adding additional features and integrating with various systems.

Nagios XI is stable and beneficial for monitoring the IT services infrastructure and performance management across multiple servers.

CONS

The Nagios Core Configuration GUI module could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience.

Reports require work-arounds for simplification.

The PNP4Nagios plugin and other open source monitoring plugins face compatibility issues.

Scalability is not straightforward despite being scalable.

Integration capabilities with other systems could be enhanced.

Nagios XI Pros review quotes

Technology Innovator and Entrepreneur at a tech services company

Aug 14, 2017

Though I downplayed the administrative NCC GUI, this is by far the strongest aspect of the Nagios XI product.

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Harshvardhan Dave

Nagios Technical Expert at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Aug 14, 2017

The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient.

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System Administrator at a hospitality company

Aug 16, 2017

You want to monitor a specific metric that nobody else has? You can do it even with the most basic of scripting skills, and you can always share it with the vast community of Nagios Exchange.

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Principal Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 17, 2017

Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want.

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Angelo Stefano Porro

System and Network Administrator at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Sep 24, 2017

Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures.

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MG

DevOps Analyst at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 25, 2017

The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves.

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SR

Distributed Systems Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 27, 2017

BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required.

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MN

IT CIO at Kimfay

Jun 11, 2019

The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes.

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Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jun 21, 2019

The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need.

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Assistant Director at unpa

Jun 16, 2019

This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company.

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Nagios XI Cons review quotes

Technology Innovator and Entrepreneur at a tech services company

Aug 14, 2017

The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module.

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Harshvardhan Dave

Nagios Technical Expert at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Aug 14, 2017

The reporting part should be made simpler. While we can obtain all the reports we need, we always have to create work-arounds to get them.

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System Administrator at a hospitality company

Aug 16, 2017

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.

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Principal Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 17, 2017

Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look.

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Angelo Stefano Porro

System and Network Administrator at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Sep 24, 2017

The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present.

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MG

DevOps Analyst at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 25, 2017

Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things.

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SR

Distributed Systems Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 27, 2017

The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors.

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MN

IT CIO at Kimfay

Jun 11, 2019

The interface could be more user-friendly.

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Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jun 21, 2019

I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it.

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HM

Assistant Director at unpa

Jun 16, 2019

I would like to see support for notification via SMS.

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