Nagios XI Reviews

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.

We primarily use this solution to monitor servers and services.

The features I've found the most useful are the plug-ins, the fact that you can connect almost everything to it. That's very useful.

There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple. Going over the data and the information is complicated at the moment. The management of the commands is also a little complicated.

It's stable.

I haven't had any experience with technical support.

The initial setup was straightforward.

In regards to the interface, obviously it can always get even better but at the moment it's functional. It's a good tool. It's very easy to use, very straightforward, and I would recommend it. I would rate this solution a seven out of 10. I like it but of course, it could be better. The product detail should look better, and again, being able to find information on the search is not good enough. I think to change that would improve it very much.

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.

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.

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

It has a web front end and the Dashboards are really easy to customize.

We've been abel to integrate a human accesible interface for system monitoring our customers systems.

Backup mechanisms and some kind of templating system for dashboards are needed.

I've been using it for two years.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

We found certain stability issues that were solved by fine tuning some system parameters with support help.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

They have very accurate and fast support.

The initial setup looked quite straightforward, however, later on we found some performance issues that required the fine tuning of system parameters. Those changes were not very well documented, but technical support helped us resolve the issues perfectly.

The implementation of officially supported features was quite easy. We were also required to extend the system with a couple of ad-hoc functionalities and development of these pieces of code was not easy due to the lack of in depth documentation.

We performed the implementation in-house.

As they have their own official support, we decided to choose this product over the others we looked at.

Official support is a must have for working with this tool. If you want to cook it at home and face support on your own there are better alternatives with larger communities.

• Real Time Alerts
• Network Map

Our infrastructure is now under monitoring proactively and we don't have to wait for complaints from the customers/internal operation team to inform regarding any issue with the service.

3D datacenter view of the infrastructure to have more specific control of the environment and concept of 360 solution to monitoring is now emerging.

We've been using it for over a year.

There were no issues during the deployment.

We have had no stability issues.

We've not scaled it as of now.

As it's an opensource project, there is good contribution to, and good support, from blogs and FAQs.

It's a simple setup for a normal Linux users.

In-house. Its simple deployment but complexity comes once you have to import more plugins. Do check the required infrastructure support before deploying and check alerting mechanism.

The community edition is free, and for an enterprise deployment its costing is good compared to other solutions.

I have tested Zenoss, ManageEngine solutions - Op Manager and Application Manager. We chose Nagios over Zenoss mainly because of its lightweight interface compared to Zenoss and the ManageEngine free edition has limited nodes.

First you need to do a complete analysis of the nodes and your requirements before implementing Nagios for monitoring.