

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.
We are seeing a return on investment from using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform because we are getting less production issues by thirty percent, as I mentioned earlier, making it a great investment.
If we needed ten people to do tests once upon a time, now, using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we can do it with a fifty percent reduction in employees.
We do not need to look at all the day's metrics on Grafana dashboards; we run our chaos experiments in a production environment to see how reliable our product or service is.
When I have questions or run into issues with Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, their support team is helpful and responsive.
The customer support for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is good overall.
Gremlin Reliability Management Platform scales smoothly for running more chaos experiments, adding more services, or supporting a larger team.
More than scalability, I thought about availability because it is a really important thing of the architecture tools.
The scalability of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform depends on the scalability of the underlying infrastructure that we are hosting it on.
If the user interface isn’t presenting data well, it becomes difficult to manage when scaling.
I have not seen any downtime or issues with its behavior or performance.
It is very stable.
I think it would be useful to have some integration with Splunk or other log collectors, or maybe in the future, the ability to link Dynatrace or any other observability platform.
The infrastructure also needs to be very mature; it should be set up properly and that takes a lot of compliance and regulation time.
If we can integrate it with natural language, could we talk to Gremlin Reliability Management Platform and have it configure some of the basic settings so that non-technical persons can also work on Gremlin Reliability Management Platform-like tools?
Many tools have poor user interfaces, making them hard to manage and navigate.
The GUI could be improved. It's a bit too basic.
It is not so cheap, but it has very powerful features.
My role does not incur costs for us since we have an NFR for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform that we can use in our case.
We are using the free, open-source version.
The pricing for the Nagios XI product is good and better than other solutions.
There are really two pathways along: fewer incidents because with Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we can make every part of the infrastructure more solid, and less downtime because we can test more architectures and then things like how to put in high availability clusters.
One of my best features of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is the built-in chaos experiments, which gives you the reliability score of your service.
Gremlin Reliability Management Platform has positively impacted my organization because before Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we did not even know how to conduct these chaos engineering tests.
Nagios XI simplifies our setup and reduces the time spent configuring monitoring tools.
The alerting system is very effective.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Nagios XI | 3.3% |
| Gremlin Reliability Management Platform | 0.1% |
| Other | 96.6% |

| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 22 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 17 |
| Large Enterprise | 21 |
Gremlin Reliability Management Platform empowers organizations to proactively identify and mitigate potential failures. It enhances system resilience through controlled chaos engineering, aiding tech teams in delivering reliable services.
Designed for tech-savvy users, Gremlin enables teams to implement chaos engineering effectively to ensure system reliability. It offers precise control over variables, allowing teams to simulate real-world scenarios and fortify system operations. Gremlin plays a strategic role in preventing downtime and maintaining optimal service delivery through a suite of advanced tools tailored for IT infrastructure.
What are the most important features of Gremlin?In industries such as e-commerce, finance, and healthcare, Gremlin helps maintain service reliability by identifying vulnerabilities before they affect operations. IT teams can simulate stress tests specific to their industry, ensuring systems are resilient against potential threats, enhancing customer satisfaction, and securing business continuity.
Nagios XI provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components, including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Third-party add-ons provide tools for monitoring virtually all in-house and external applications, services, and systems.
Nagios XI uses a powerful Core 4 monitoring engine that provides users with the highest levels of server monitoring performance. This high degree of performance enables nearly limitless scalability and monitoring powers.
With Nagios XI, stakeholders can check up on their infrastructure status using the role-based web interface. Sophisticated dashboards enable access to monitoring information and third-party data. Administrators can easily set up permissions so users can only access the infrastructure they are authorized to view.
Nagios XI Benefits and Features
Some of the benefits and top features of using Nagios XI include:
Reviews from Real Users
Nagios XI stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its integration options and monitoring abilities, as well as its alerting features.
David P., a senior DevOps engineer at EML Payments Ltd, writes, “We use Nagios as a network discovery tool. We use Nagios to maintain our uptime statistics and to monitor our services. It has allowed us to be much more sophisticated in our monitoring and alerting.”
An IT-OSS manager at a comms service provider notes, “Nagios XI has a custom API feature, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature.”
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