InfoVista VistaInsight vs Nagios Core comparison

Infovista and Nagios are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Infovista is ranked #90, while Nagios is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.3. Infovista holds a 0.2% mindshare in NMS, compared to Nagios’s 2.5% 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

90th

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Nagios Core

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of InfoVista VistaInsight is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Core is 2.5%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Nagios Core	2.5%
InfoVista VistaInsight	0.2%
Other	97.3%

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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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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

"My experience with technical support has been perfect."

"It has made the life of the network operations staff more proactive in managing the resources of the infrastructure. It prevents disasters long before they can take place."

"The solution's most valuable feature is that it offers proper alerting capabilities."

"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."

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

"Nagios Core is stable."

"Nagios Core is very configurable. Whatever you want, you can do it."

"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 most valuable feature of Nagios Core is the ability to check the availability of the server for network connectivity. Additionally, the interface is good."

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Cons

"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."

"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."

"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."

"The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved."

"The dashboard should be improved."

"The mapping is a little hard."

"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."

"The tool needs to improve the integrations."

"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license is expensive."

"We are using the free version."

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

"Most the plugin features are free."

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

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

"It's free."

"The product is cheaply priced."

"The solution is expensive."

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	22

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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

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.

Infovista

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

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