Nagios XI Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

Manager Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 15, 2016

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

What is most valuable?

Real Time Alerts
Network Map

How has it helped my organization?

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.

What needs improvement?

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

For how long have I used the solution?

We've been using it for over a year.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

There were no issues during the deployment.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have had no stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We've not scaled it as of now.

How are customer service and support?

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

How was the initial setup?

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

What about the implementation team?

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.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

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

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

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.

What other advice do I have?

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

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.