We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and NetCrunch based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"Nagios XI is a simple monitoring tool with performance management."
"The installation is no problem. I've installed Nagios several times."
"It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"Nagios XI can improve network and hardware monitoring, these parameters should be simplified to allow usage for monitoring. Additionally, if there was automatic reporting it would be helpful."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"The installation and monitoring need improvement."
"The way Nagios displays information isn't easy for a new user to understand. It's not intuitive enough. You need to read some tutorials or be trained to understand what it's displaying. Also, I think it needs more features to improve network visibility because there are some things you can't detect."
"I would like a much easier GUI so that I can delete events and logs, which will free up a lot of space."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
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Nagios XI is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 54 reviews while NetCrunch is ranked 77th in Network Monitoring Software. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while NetCrunch is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetCrunch writes "A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas NetCrunch is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Nagios XI vs. NetCrunch report.
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