We performed a comparison between Microsoft System Center and Nagios XI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it helps us manage our company's application pool, license pool, application update pool, and OS updates."
"We like Microsoft System Center's Operations Manager. That is primarily why we use it."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft System Center is its GUI (graphical user interface)."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want."
"The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"The solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"For me, the tool's UI seems to be too old."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"We have some bugs but it's stable. It doesn't break every day. It works. Like other applications, it has a lot of bugs but they're manageable."
"The platform's performance could be improved. Additionally, its UI needs to be well-upgraded and work faster."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"I would like a much easier GUI so that I can delete events and logs, which will free up a lot of space."
"The way Nagios displays information isn't easy for a new user to understand. It's not intuitive enough. You need to read some tutorials or be trained to understand what it's displaying. Also, I think it needs more features to improve network visibility because there are some things you can't detect."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"The product's stability could be even better."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
Microsoft System Center is ranked 29th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 18 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 10th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 54 reviews. Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8, while Nagios XI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Makes user management and application management easy for users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga. See our Microsoft System Center vs. Nagios XI report.
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