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Loom Systems vs Nagios Core comparison

ServiceNow and Nagios are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. ServiceNow is ranked #66, while Nagios is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.2. ServiceNow holds a 0.2% mindshare in IM, compared to Nagios’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of ServiceNow users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Nagios users who would recommend it.
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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.

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Categories and Ranking

Loom Systems
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
66th
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
13th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Loom Systems is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Core is 3.7%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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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.
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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.
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Quotes from Members

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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."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"Provides timely notifications."
"I would rate the overall solution ten points out of ten."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
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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."
"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."
"The discovery and mapping still takes a lot of human intervention, it's quite resource heavy,"
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"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 NetEase reporting structure needs improvement, especially the availability report, which is weak."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It's free."
"The product is cheaply priced."
"The Nagios Core (PNP4Nagios + Core) is free and can be setup by Netadmin within a few hours. The only additional cost is the cloud server."
"Nagios Core is a cheap solution."
"Most the plugin features are free."
"We have saved a lot of time, money, and effort in reducing disaster times, which is owed to Nagios quick alerting."
"The enterprise version has technical support. The version we are using is free."
"Lessening the price point would be an improvement."
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Questions from the Community

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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

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

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