Nagios XI Reviews

It has a lot of flexibility for customization and a wide range of metrics. Also, it is opensource and has a big community.

The Reactor helped improved our script automation and self-response. XI has provided us with top flexibility for heterogeneous systems monitoring.

Nagios needs to improve their incident manager. Currently, it isn't good for ITIL in my opinion. The Reactor is good to go, but XI needs to improve its reporting functionality.

We use bothe Nagios XI and Nagios Reactor.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

There have been no performance issues.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

I would advise that you create a lab with Nagios Core and test what you really need. Although it's exciting to use all the products, only a few are really important in your IT structure. When you are confident with scripting and MIBS integration, you can consider expanding it to your Enterprise systems with Nagios XI and some other modules. I would discourage you from using the ticketing system to start with and choose something more dedicated.

In my experience with Nagios, I've found that the most valuable features are the scalability and extensibility through using scripts. It's easy to customize, and Nagios makes it easy to use languages you're already familiar with such as Bash/Python

It's helped us improve as we now have the ability to customize the solution. By doing this through scripting, we are now able to monitor every layer of our stack from infrastructure to applications.

I feel that the maturity and user interface needs to be improved. I think this is handled through its integration with OpsView.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

There have been no performance issues.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

If you plan ahead of time and thoroughly test the final solution you want to implement, it should be straightforward.

Plan ahead and take your time through staging the installation and take your time testing your customized scripts before doing the production installation.

We use this solution for the monitoring of network devices in multiple areas. I use this solution on a daily basis, and the first thing that I do when I go into the workplace each morning is to check on all of the equipment.

This solution has improved our ability to determine the source of a connection failure in our network. Prior to using Nagios XI, we did not know whether the drop in service was a result of our system, or whether it was the fault of our service provider. Now, we are able to monitor the service provider's router and make that determination.

The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need. You can find and change your speed in the network topology, and if something goes down then it will be noticed immediately.

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

First, when you click on one of the devices on the map, it shows you information about the equipment. Sometimes, there is information that I do not want to show. I would instead like to choose what is shown.

Next, I would like to have the ability to show only a subset of equipment on the network map. When you view it, all of the equipment that you have is there, every time. Sometimes, I would like to choose just a group of devices to view.

This is a stable solution. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the stability a nine.

The scalability is perfect. I can add as much equipment as I like.

I have not needed to contact technical support. Everything installed easily and it works fine.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

The initial setup is very straightforward.

The deployment took approximately one hour. The difficult part is configuring the equipment, such as setting up the IP addresses. Because I have more than fifty devices, it took me some time. The task is simple, albeit repetitive.

The licensing fees for this solution are approximately $3,000 USD per year.

When I was researching solutions I read about Nagios XI, and it was rated as one of the best solutions. I tried it and I liked it, which is why it was selected.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

It's ability to monitor a good range of services out of the box and it's extensibility with the use of plug-ins, with an active user community sharing community contributed plug-ins to cover monitoring for a very wide range of services and components.

It's helped us to improve our incident management, problem management, and capacity management.

The web interface is perfectly fit for purpose but isn't up there with the best modern admin panels. There is scope for improvement to make it more dynamic and responsive.

I've been using it for three years.

Nagios XI ships as a virtual appliance and is easily deployed.

There have been no performance issues.

Clear instructions are provided on how to expand the disk capacity of the appliance and the solution can be scaled to allow several distributed Nagios monitoring instances to work together.

Customer service is excellent.

I haven't needed any technical support.

We previously used the free version of Nagios and decided that the commercially packaged version Nagios XI was well worth the cost and reduced the admin overhead significantly.

Initial setup is straightforward and allows monitored hosts to be added one-by-one using a wizard or added in bulk using the bulk add tool.

An in-house implementation was done. I would advise that you need to understand the overall basic architecture of Nagios before implementing it.

In my view this product is very good value for money when compared with other commercially provided monitoring solutions.

Implementation is best done by people with a good general Linux/open source skill set. If you have these kinds of people then implementing Nagios should be fairly straightforward. If you have a bunch of Window admins who've never touched a Linux system, then implementation could be a challenge.

It's simple and has easily understandable monitoring concepts that have been largely adopted by the community.

Starting from proprietary monitoring systems, it becomes possible to customize the monitoring system to our specific needs thanks to custom developments and community contributions.

Business services monitoring is still really basic. With the growth of IT environments, IT monitoring needs to be attached to the services organizations provide to customers. Also, it needs external automation tools may be helpful and there's no web API before Nagios 4.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

There have been no performance issues.

Configuration may be heavy in large scale environments.

First learn concepts, and think how the solution could be suitable for your specific needs. Overall, it's a powerful system.

Nagios XI is used for monitoring the resources in the infrastructure.

The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system.

As it is open-source, it is not user-friendly. Open-source software is usually not user-friendly.

We have been selling Nagios XI for more than five years.

Nagios XI is a scalable product.

We have six customers who are using this solution.

Support, we have a time zone issue, but we are providing our own support.

I don't believe we require anything, because we have our own technical expertise.

We are resellers of Forcepoint and Symantec DLP.

Because my company is experienced, installation is not a problem for us, but I'm not sure about new users.

We have a team of two or three people to deploy and maintain this solution.

Nagios XI is open source.

It requires a yearly license.

It is an alternative to more expensive solutions. That is why they use Nagios.

I would rate Nagios XI an eight out of ten.

Simplicity of configuration. I can set up configuration of 100 devices with about 10 services in one to two days.

I can track systems behavior and network failures.

It's in need of more standard plug-ins.

I've used it for around 12 years

We had no deployment issues.

The product is quite stable, and we've had no issues.

There's been no issues with scaling it for our needs.

I'm not using any customer service.

I'm not in need of any technical support.

I started with this product.

It's very straightforward initial configuration if you start with your distro packages.

It's very easy, and you only need to familiarize yourself with its file structure. Sometimes you need to write your own plugin, so sometimes it is better to have it implemented by a vendor.

It's very simple, and is very valuable to us. If you need to monitoring your environment just do it