Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users

Loom Systems vs Nagios Core comparison

ServiceNow and Nagios are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. ServiceNow is ranked #63, while Nagios is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.5. ServiceNow holds a 0.3% mindshare in IM, compared to Nagios’s 3.4% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of ServiceNow users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Nagios users who would recommend it.
Loom Systems
Read 4 Loom Systems reviews
  • 519 Views
  • 343 Comparison Views
80% willing to recommend
Nagios Core
Read 51 Nagios Core reviews
  • 4,424 Views
  • 3,849 Comparison Views
80% willing to recommend
 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report
Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Loom Systems and Nagios Core are competing products in IT monitoring and analytics. Loom Systems seems to have the upper hand in automation and AI-driven insights due to its advantage in predictive analytics and proactive monitoring.

Features: Loom Systems provides advanced AI-driven anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and proactive issue resolution. Nagios Core offers robust monitoring supported by an extensive plugin library, enabling high customization and flexibility.

Room for Improvement: Loom Systems could enhance its customization options, expand community support, and lower its initial setup costs. Nagios Core could improve its deployment ease, streamline customer service, and modernize its user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Loom Systems offers a streamlined deployment process with strong customer support, focusing on ease and speed for cloud-based solutions. Nagios Core requires more technical expertise for deployment and configuration, often depending on community-based support.

Pricing and ROI: Loom Systems generally incurs higher initial setup costs but offers promise for greater long-term ROI by minimizing unplanned downtime. Nagios Core's open-source nature results in low initial costs, appealing to budget-conscious organizations, though customization and maintenance might impact future ROI.

DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE REPORT
To learn more, read our detailed Loom Systems vs. Nagios Core Report (Updated: July 2025).
Buyer's Guide
Loom Systems vs. Nagios Core
July 2025
Download the complete report
Helped 865,384 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Loom Systems
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
63rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Anomaly Detection Tools (2nd)
Nagios Core
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Loom Systems is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Core is 3.4%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Keerthi Kumar Sangaraju - PeerSpot reviewer
Stable, easy to set up, flexible, and has multiple functionalities, but needs to define priority levels for each incident
What's lacking in Loom Systems is the level of priority for each incident. For example, after implementation and there was a huge impact on the client, and the client comes back to you and says that there's an incident, that there needs to be an immediate resolution for it, you'll see severity one, severity two, etc., in Loom Systems, rather than priority levels. It would be better if the incidents can be defined as low priority, medium priority, or high priority.
Read full review
Nishith-Vyas - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"What I like best about Loom Systems is that you can use it for infrastructure monitoring. I also like that it's a flexible solution."
"You can develop your own apps within Loom, and they can be configured very simply."
"The solution is absolutely scalable. If an organization needs to expand it out they definitely can."
"The RFS portion of the solution is the product's most valuable feature."
"I would rate the overall solution ten points out of ten."
"I like that it's very simple to install, easy to manage and deploy, and easy to use for monitoring."
"The good thing about Nagios Core is it covers everything."
"Nagios Core is stable."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"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 most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"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."
More Nagios Core pros
 

Cons

"The reporting is a bit weak. They should work to improve this aspect of the product."
"The change management within the solution needs to be improved. There needs to be more process automation."
"The discovery and mapping still takes a lot of human intervention, it's quite resource heavy,"
"What's lacking in Loom Systems is the level of priority for each incident. For example, after implementation and there was a huge impact on the client, and the client comes back to you and says that there's an incident, that there needs to be an immediate resolution for it, you'll see severity one, severity two, etc., in Loom Systems, rather than priority levels. It would be better if the incidents can be defined as low priority, medium priority, or high priority."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"We're using the free version, which limits us in terms of the things that we can do. If we had the paid version, a lot of our issues would probably go away. For example, we can't isolate instances that are being built or updated with the production ones. When they're being built, on Nagios, they're showing in red. It'd be nice to be able to partition those off until they're all green, and then we can bring them into the environment. This is probably because we've got the free version and not the paid version. If we went for the paid version, it would probably allow us to do exactly what we want to or remove the restrictions that we have, but if we are able to isolate instances in the free version, it would make life much easier."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."
"Nagios Core could improve by adding a user interface. If you want the user interface you have to use Nagios XI."
"The core version is no match for the XI version."
"The mapping is a little hard."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
More Nagios Core cons
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"We are using the open-source, unpaid version."
"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."
"Nagios Core is a cheap solution."
"The solution is expensive."
"We are using the free version of Nagios Core."
"Lessening the price point would be an improvement."
"The enterprise version has technical support. The version we are using is free."
More Nagios Core pricing and cost advice
report
See which vendors are best for you
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions are best for your needs.
See recommendations
865,384 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

Ask a question
Earn 20 points
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.
See all answers
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.
See all answers
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.
See all answers
 

Comparisons

Huawei eSight vs Loom Systems Logo
Huawei eSight vs Loom Systems
Compared 38% of the time
SolarWinds NPM vs Loom Systems Logo
SolarWinds NPM vs Loom Systems
Compared 35% of the time
Splunk Observability Cloud vs Loom Systems Logo
Splunk Observability Cloud vs Loom Systems
Compared 28% of the time
More Loom Systems Competitors
Icinga vs Nagios Core Logo
Icinga vs Nagios Core
Compared 23% of the time
Nagios XI vs Nagios Core Logo
Nagios XI vs Nagios Core
Compared 15% of the time
Zabbix vs Nagios Core Logo
Zabbix vs Nagios Core
Compared 12% of the time
Centreon vs Nagios Core Logo
Centreon vs Nagios Core
Compared 7% of the time
Checkmk vs Nagios Core Logo
Checkmk vs Nagios Core
Compared 5% of the time
More Nagios Core Competitors
 

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
July 2025
Loom Systems reportDownload Loom Systems product report
Buyer's Guide
Nagios Core
August 2025
Nagios Core reportDownload Nagios Core product report
 

Overview

Loom Systems delivers an advanced AI-powered operational analytics platform to predict and prevent problems in the digital business. DevOps & IT teams use Loom for real-time detection and resolution for any type of application, including home-grown. Loom analyzes logs and metrics in all formats, performs smart correlations and root cause analysis to help organizations gain immediate into their environments. Loom stands alone in the industry as an AI platform requiring no prior math knowledge from its operators, leveraging your existing staff to succeed in the digital era. Getting started is easy - zero configuration and data pre-processing needed, so you can stream your data in its raw format.
ServiceNow

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

Nagios
 

Sample Customers

Citrix, Amdocs, Sysaid, Hexaware, Effibar, Revtrak, Taptica
Airbnb, Cisco, PayPal, FanDuel
Buyer's Guide
Loom Systems vs. Nagios Core
July 2025
Free Report: Loom Systems vs. Nagios Core
Find out what your peers are saying about Loom Systems vs. Nagios Core and other solutions. Updated: July 2025.
DOWNLOAD NOW
865,384 professionals have used our research since 2012.
See our Loom Systems vs. Nagios Core report.
See our list of best IT Infrastructure Monitoring vendors.

We monitor all IT Infrastructure Monitoring reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.