Grafana Enterprise Stack vs Nagios Core comparison

Grafana Labs and Nagios are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Grafana Labs is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.7, while Nagios is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.7. Grafana Labs holds a 1.1% mindshare in IM, compared to Nagios’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Grafana Labs users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Nagios users who would recommend it.

Grafana Enterprise Stack

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Nagios Core and Grafana Enterprise Stack are competitive products in the IT infrastructure monitoring and visualization category. Grafana Enterprise Stack is considered to have the upper hand due to its advanced features and perceived value.

Features: Nagios Core offers cost-effectiveness, robust server and network monitoring capabilities, and flexibility in integrating with custom scripts and community plugins. Grafana Enterprise Stack provides real-time data visualization, comprehensive dashboard capabilities, and compatibility with a wide range of data sources.

Room for Improvement: Nagios Core requires significant configuration for complex environments, has indirect expenses associated with customization, and could improve in the area of real-time data analytics. Grafana Enterprise Stack could enhance its cost-effectiveness for budget-conscious users, increase flexibility in monitoring capabilities, and improve integrations with certain custom scripts.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nagios Core has straightforward deployment in basic setups, with extensive documentation and community support, though it needs more effort for complex setups. Grafana Enterprise Stack has a smooth deployment process, professional support services, and intuitive dashboards, beneficial for quick enterprise insights.

Pricing and ROI: Nagios Core is open-source and free, which appeals to those minimizing costs, but customization and maintenance may incur indirect expenses. Grafana Enterprise Stack follows a subscription model, offering faster time-to-value and advanced features, justifying its investment through enhanced data visualization and enterprise-level support.

To learn more, read our detailed Grafana Enterprise Stack vs. Nagios Core Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

Grafana Enterprise Stack

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Nagios Core

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Grafana Enterprise Stack is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Core is 2.2%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nagios Core	2.2%
Grafana Enterprise Stack	1.1%
Other	96.7%

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Rajan M

Test Lead at Calpine Group

Efficient monitoring and alerting enhance operational insights

With Grafana Enterprise Stack, we can identify issues that New Relic cannot help with. While New Relic requires purchase and supports frontend and backend components, Grafana Enterprise Stack helps identify where issues are occurring. When we need to deep dive into issues, we use New Relic to trace transactions and determine where maximum impact occurs, whether in core size, DB side, or frontend components that slow performance. We first evaluate with Grafana Enterprise Stack, then move to New Relic if we identify performance degradation, such as DB queries taking too much time. Grafana Enterprise Stack responds to queries within 6 to 12 hours. They contact users through email immediately when available. Similarly, New Relic follows the same pattern, responding immediately when requests are raised and resolving issues promptly.

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Husham Yaqoob

Senior System Administrator at Interactive Group

Monitoring solution provides comprehensive visibility across IT infrastructure

The good thing about Nagios Core is it covers everything. Everything in the IT domain, you can monitor anything. You can even monitor printers, the ports of printers, Core workstations, and storage. You can monitor the workflow Core and the utilization of computes. If you want to grasp everything of your IT equipment on a single interface, you can use Nagios. It's the best one. It provides dashboards, and you can also configure your emails and alerts with it. If something is critical, you can configure it to notify via emails. It has a very handy dashboard, providing live alerts and visibility for everything.

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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

"Grafana's full observability stack, known as LGTM, is highly valuable."

"The ability to graph actual, live, or on-the-fly activity is valuable; it is an added value to work with Grafana Enterprise Stack and to display results or logs, which are huge in nature, in graphical characters."

"Grafana's most valuable feature is its ability to provide a graphical representation of data collected from various sources."

"It is truly reliable."

"Compared to other packages, Grafana Enterprise Stack is user-friendly and easy to configure quickly."

"The most valuable features for us are dashboards; we can dashboard anything that we can think of, we can dashboard and measure."

"The most valuable features of Grafana for data visualization are its ability to create intuitive dashboards and its wide range of visualization options like graphs, charts, and tables."

"Grafana's full observability stack, known as LGTM, is highly valuable."

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"The reporting structure and the feature set are valuable to me."

"Nagios Core is a great solution for monitoring pretty much any size of deployment but you do need to know your way around a Linux system to set it up and run it."

"Nagios Core integrates with tools like Splunk, Datadog, or Dynatrace. It is usually used as a feed to provide more technical information about devices or hosts to another system."

"Its an awesome product to use."

"Provides timely notifications."

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

"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."

"I like that it's very simple to install, easy to manage and deploy, and easy to use for monitoring."

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Cons

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved."

"I find Grafana really hard to configure. It's difficult to build the dashboard, and it's non-intuitive. In my opinion, it's very difficult to work with Grafana."

"In terms of what Grafana provides, it just provides the charting tools. Everything else is third-party."

"Grafana Enterprise Stack is complex and not easy or simple."

"They could use more small tutorials to explain a bit about how Grafana works."

"If Grafana Enterprise Stack could display transaction queries in dashboard format similar to New Relic, it would provide more options and capabilities for users."

"The tool needs to show only fewer updates."

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved. Currently, one needs to ingest labels and timestamps for them to be connected, however, drilling down sometimes takes time."

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"This solution is not scalable at all. If you want to add an AI, or if you wanted to monitor different types of metrics, you won't get the most out of it."

"The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved."

"Bandwidth monitoring is the pain point for me because Nagios Core does not monitor bandwidth effectively like Cacti does."

"The NetEase reporting structure needs improvement, especially the availability report, which is weak."

"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."

"There is room for improvement in the graphics."

"Nagios Core would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."

"It would be nice if it was hosted in cloud. Also, they need to improve the graphs."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the tool's free license."

"We have saved a lot of time, money, and effort in reducing disaster times, which is owed to Nagios quick alerting."

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

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

"Nagios Core is free to use."

"The product is cheaply priced."

"Nagios Core is an open source solution, and there are no licensing fees."

"It's free."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Energy/Utilities Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	23

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I am trying to think about its advanced alerting features; we do not use it too much for that. We do get it to report through to our help desk system and if a threshold gets broken, then a ticket i...

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What is your primary use case for Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I have switched to a different suite, focusing on customer edge solutions that are mostly Fortinet. To manage it, I use Grafana Enterprise Stack and a whole bunch of tools that we wrote ourselves. ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Grafana Enterprise Stack?

We use Grafana Enterprise Stack in all of our clients. I rate this product an eight out of ten.

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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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What is your primary use case for Nagios Core?

I was a senior system administrator. I've been using Nagios Core for more than ten years now. It can be used to monitor hosts, such as machines, and monitor services of any kind. I'm using it to mo...

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Overview

Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful tool for real-time data monitoring and visualization. With its flexible and scalable features, it is widely used for creating dashboards, analyzing metrics, and gaining insights into infrastructure, databases, and applications.

Its valuable features include powerful visualization capabilities, extensive data source integrations, customizable dashboards, a user-friendly interface, and a robust alerting system. Users appreciate its flexibility, scalability, and ability to integrate with different data sources, making it suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases.

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

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Sample Customers

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