InfoVista VistaInsight vs Nagios Core comparison

Infovista and Nagios are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Infovista is ranked #89, while Nagios is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.7. Infovista holds a 0.4% mindshare in NMS, compared to Nagios’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Infovista users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Nagios users who would recommend it.

InfoVista VistaInsight

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

InfoVista VistaInsight and Nagios Core compete in network performance management. InfoVista appears to have an advantage due to its comprehensive real-time performance monitoring and analytics capabilities.

Features: InfoVista VistaInsight provides advanced reporting capabilities, predictive analytics, and integrated analytics, enhancing network performance and capacity planning. Nagios Core offers flexibility with customization options, extensive plugin support, and robust adaptability for complex environments.

Room for Improvement: InfoVista could improve by offering greater flexibility and community-driven support options, enhancing customization capabilities, and reducing costs for smaller enterprises. Nagios Core may benefit from a smoother deployment process, more structured professional support, and enhanced integration for analytics.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: InfoVista provides a smoother deployment experience with dedicated customer support, reducing setup time significantly. Nagios Core may require more manual configuration and relies on its community for support, which can be time-consuming for new users.

Pricing and ROI: InfoVista VistaInsight typically involves higher upfront costs but offers potentially higher ROI for large enterprises due to advanced features. Nagios Core is cost-effective with lower initial expenses but may require more investment in technical expertise for optimal use.

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Categories and Ranking

InfoVista VistaInsight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

89th

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Nagios Core

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of InfoVista VistaInsight is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Core is 1.9%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nagios Core	1.9%
InfoVista VistaInsight	0.4%
Other	97.7%

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Youssef El Hayek

OSS Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

A powerful service that is very stable and scalable

It's a very powerful service, you have to use your training and understand how to work it. After that, it's very easy to collect and to use. It may be hard to use for the administrators. It's like a Ferrari, if you're a very good driver you'll go to 300 but you have to know how to drive it. If you have a Ferrari but you don't know how to use it, it's not going to be good. Also, it's very important to understand what the customer needs to decide on what kind of products you are going to use, and what product and what solution to implement. I would rate the solution nine out of 10.

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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

"My experience with technical support has been perfect."

"The product is excellent."

"My experience with technical support has been perfect."

"We can get real time statistics of our servers which improves our monitoring."

"Nagios is able to minimize server downtime and this in turn helps to generate more revenue."

"Nagios Core is stable."

"Extensibility is good as this makes it easy to write checks on your own."

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

"The notifications are definitely one of the most valuable features of Nagios Core. We know what to look for and what to expect when things are down."

"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."

"This is a fit for purpose product which means that if you have a definite list of requirements and are not willing, or unable, to spend money on big enterprise tools, then Nagios is a tool to go to."

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Cons

"The presentation of the features can be improved."

"However, the license is expensive."

"The presentation of the features can be improved. It can be more user-friendly for the visual part of the portal and to allow the customer to be able to use."

"The presentation of the features can be improved."

"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."

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

"It would be nice if the company offered a sales or contract manager that was dedicated to our company so that we would have some sort of link to Nagios, and if we had issues or questions, we'd be able to contact them directly."

"It is a bit slow due to latency."

"The mapping is a little hard."

"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."

"The mapping is a little hard."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license is expensive."

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

"We are using the free version."

"It's free."

"Nagios Core is free to use."

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

"Nagios Core is a cheap solution."

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

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

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Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

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Small Business

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

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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

InfoVista VistaInsight is a pre-built service assurance solution that provides the benefits of off-the-shelf software, while enabling rapid configuration and tailoring to meet the unique needs of communications service providers (CSPs) and sophisticated large enterprises. Built upon InfoVista's scale-as-you-grow, distributed collection and reporting, organizations are empowered to monitor the performance of their data center infrastructure, network layers and domains, and physical and virtual components. VistaInsight delivers usage and forecasting to engineering, enables service exception alerts for operations, and manages and demonstrates SLAs for both internal stakeholders and end customers all through a web-based portal.

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

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