We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."
"The solution is quite efficient."
"Alert calls occur anytime a service goes down or a matrix is difficult and that helps us to quickly restore service and transfer work."
"The notifications are definitely one of the most valuable features of Nagios Core. We know what to look for and what to expect when things are down."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"Other products are good but from the configuration point of view Nagios is really very lightweight. The price is really good in my opinion. Another important thing is that my Nagios engine still works with Dual core 8GB ram for the last 10 years."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"It's easy to understand."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"The solution is easy to use and easy to manage."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"Tickets by e-mail, with actions by hastag."
"The tool needs to improve the integrations."
"Bandwidth monitoring is the pain point for me because Nagios Core does not monitor bandwidth effectively like Cacti does."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"It is a bit slow due to latency."
"The core version is no match for the XI version."
"Nagios Core could improve by adding a user interface. If you want the user interface you have to use Nagios XI."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"I would like the solution to allow for more direct interaction with computers. I can open tickets and I can see their status, but I can't interact directly with the computers themselves."
"With Spiceworks, like, when I open the websites, I have to Zoom in. I need to zoom in on those websites sometimes because it makes it horrible to use."
"The GUI must be improved."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"One of the biggest ways in which Spiceworks could improve is by developing better and more automated workflows. For example, in another solution called ServiceDesk by ManageEngine, you can have levels of approval in the event that there is a request for new software, or when someone requests a VPN or WiFi connection. This kind of multi-stage approval feature provided by ServiceDesk does not appear to exist in Spiceworks, and it is one of their main shortcomings for me."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
Nagios Core is ranked 7th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 46 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 33rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". Nagios Core is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, Icinga, Centreon and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and SolarWinds NPM. See our Nagios Core vs. Spiceworks report.
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