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it_user326337<\/a>Customer Success Manager at PeerSpot<\/span><\/div>
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Chris, do you still find this to be true? Is Nagios still a default tool when people are searching for IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions?<\/p><\/div>

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That’s an excellent review, I would like to ask you a question. How can I have Nagios process all object configuration files in a certain directory? It must be possible.<\/p><\/div>

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My apologies, I did not mean to imply that Nagios is better than anything else, rather it is so pervasavive (especially in SV) that it is just the default monitoring solution. You are very correct in how one characterizes Nagios as essentially a \"whole lotta work\". For me, the only parts of Nagios that are worthy are the basic things that have been taken care of: pager duty, rotations, web-gui, all the stuff that would slow me down while creating specific loggers/analyzers. <\/p>\n\n

As far as queries for monitored data, Zabbix could probably used in place of Nagios in a Graphite/Carbon implementation. However I am not familiar with reporting error conditions back into Zabbix.<\/p>\n\n

I mentioned it above, but if you have a fairly large set of servers PandoraFMS is quite wonderful if one isn\'t comfortable or it isn\'t acceptable to build pieces where needed.\n<\/p><\/div>

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I\'m not sure what you are trying to say in your first paragraph, you seem to be leading with the suggestion that Zabbix is a monolith that either fits, or it does not fit at all, and Nagios being extensible and flexible being your follow-on with the rest of your paper.<\/p>\n\n

My experience is really a lot different. I found Nagios to be inefficient and incomplete, and while it is extensible, that was never an advantage. And the kinds of complex queries and actions you have been able to do with Nagios, I\'ve been able to do with Zabbix. Zabbix is extensible as well, though I expect that fewer people have as much need to extend it.<\/p>\n\n

I\'m sure you found something Zabbix can\'t do well, that Nagios can do better, I\'m just having a hard time imagining what that is. I suspect that it is more a case that you are a Nagios expert, and you haven\'t spent as much time with Zabbix.<\/p>\n\n

My first efforts with Zabbix didn\'t go that well, like most systems like this there is a learning curve. My second effort we were using a specific automation feature, and the feature worked so well that I immediately learned how to augment the feature with custom scripts to automate other tasks. While that was just one set of features missing from Nagios, it was the reason I started using Zabbix. Once I was using it, I started to realize it was a superior solution all the way around. You may never find that one killer function in zabbix that rocks your world, so learning to replace one tool with another may not be as big a gain for you. But I have been replacing Nagios all over the place, and so far no one has given me any pushback, despite how many years they have been using Nagios. This is the first time I\'ve seen a post that seems to imply Nagios is better, and I\'m trying to understand where you are coming from on that. I get the sense you are where I was at after my first failed attempt at using Zabbix.<\/p><\/div>