Goliath Performance Monitor vs Nagios Core comparison

Goliath Technologies and Nagios are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Goliath Technologies is ranked #59, while Nagios is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.2. Goliath Technologies holds a 0.2% mindshare in IM, compared to Nagios’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 50% of Goliath Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Nagios users who would recommend it.

Goliath Performance Monitor

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Goliath Performance Monitor and Nagios Core compete in monitoring solutions. Goliath Performance Monitor has an advantage in deployment ease and support, while Nagios Core presents a stronger feature set.

Features: Goliath Performance Monitor offers extensive performance diagnostics, alerting systems, and integration with virtualization. It facilitates visual reporting and a user-friendly dashboard. Nagios Core includes comprehensive monitoring with custom plugin support, providing tailor-made solutions. It focuses on network and server performance, offering intricate oversight tools.

Room for Improvement: Goliath Performance Monitor could improve its high initial cost structure, increase customization options, and expand open-source adaptability. Nagios Core may enhance user interface simplicity, streamline deployment complexity, and extend official support resources to reduce reliance on community-driven solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Goliath Performance Monitor requires fewer resources for deployment and offers superior customer support, beneficial for organizations without dedicated IT staff. Nagios Core's open-source nature results in resource-intensive deployment and limited official support, posing challenges for those with minimal technical expertise.

Pricing and ROI: Goliath Performance Monitor involves higher initial costs but provides strong ROI by improving operational efficiencies and reducing downtimes. Its setup aligns with premium service offerings. Nagios Core offers low upfront investment through its open-source model, but customization and maintenance can raise long-term costs, appealing to organizations focused on cost-efficiency with the capability to manage complex setups.

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Categories and Ranking

Goliath Performance Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

59th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Nagios Core

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

13th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Goliath Performance Monitor is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Core is 3.7%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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networke29316

Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Monitors well with Citrix, stable, and the support is very responsive

It looks like it is easy to scale, but I don't know how far it can go out. We are only a 300, or 400 person company. We are not terribly large. It looks like it should be able to scale up until 10,000 at least. There are two users in the company who use this solution, I use it, and the helpdesk.

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Nishith-Vyas

Tech Lead at STL Digital Limited

Valuable reporting and alert system with room for PDF export improvements

The NetEase reporting structure needs improvement, especially the availability report, which is weak. It should be generated automatically with minimal human intervention and should be exportable as a PDF. Besides that, an integrated PDF export feature for reports is necessary. Also, the alert mechanism and graphing mechanism need to be integrated properly into Nagios Core. Currently, integrating these requires advanced Linux knowledge. Integration of more visualization tools like Grafana and Prometheus for better graphing and visualization is also recommended.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Offers a diversity of features."

"I like that it not only has the ability to monitor but that it can do a lot of specific Citrix monitoring."

"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."

"I would rate the overall solution ten points out of ten."

"The most valuable feature depends on the project. It's great if you need to check to ensure a service is running 24/7. I can use the full solution for free, and it's flexible. If I need to add a dashboard, I can integrate it with Nagios. Cloud synchronization is wonderful."

"Monitoring with Nagios Core is helpful because it provides immediate alerts if something goes down, such as a server, or wireless router, or if there's a cable break. This allows us to respond promptly to any issues."

"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."

"We use the product to monitor server applications."

"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."

"What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."

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Cons

"I would love to be able to tell what ISP the user is coming from."

"Issues with generating reports; consistency is not there."

"The dashboard should be improved."

"The core version is no match for the XI version."

"t was a little hard to get our setup represented in the configuration."

"Nagios Core is limited in terms of distributed setups, and there is no central view for remote data centers."

"The interface could be improved."

"The alerting mechanism in Nagios Core could be improved."

"Making it a little easier to configure and set up from the start would help. There are multiple layers that you have to wade through to be able to set it up, to do it the right way, and to get it to do what you want it to do."

"It is a bit slow due to latency."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price seems reasonable."

"The enterprise version has technical support. The version we are using is free."

"We are using the free version."

"We are using the free version of Nagios Core."

"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"Nagios Core is free to use."

"Most the plugin features are free."

"We are using the open-source, unpaid version."

"Lessening the price point would be an improvement."

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Top Industries

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Healthcare Company

20%

University

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

15%

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What do you like most about Nagios Core?

What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios Core?

Nagios Core is a free and open-source product. We don't charge for the product itself, but we charge for the man-hour costs related to installation, configuration, ongoing operation, and maintenance.

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What needs improvement with Nagios Core?

The dashboard should be improved. It's very simple. I don't have a very clear or specific suggestion. You can change the skin of the dashboard, however, it's good for me.

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Overview

Goliath Performance Monitor offers proactive, end-to-end IT performance monitoring for Citrix & VMware to ensure a positive end user experience. Goliath Performance Monitor provides complete support for monitoring virtual server, virtual desktop and hybrid cloud environments, and provides specialized modules for certain EMR/EHR applications and NVIDIA GRID vGPU. Goliath Performance Monitor has been architected from the ground up to help IT administrators anticipate end user experience issues, troubleshoot the root cause, and deploy remediation actions quickly before end users complain.

Goliath Technologies

This is IT infrastructure monitoring's industry-standard, open-source core. Free without professional support services.

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Sample Customers

Walmart, Facebook, Xerox, UHS, ADP, Wyndham Worldwide

Airbnb, Cisco, PayPal, FanDuel

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