Nagios Core vs NetApp Cloud Insights comparison

Nagios and NetApp are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Nagios is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.5, while NetApp is ranked #34 with an average rating of 8.8. Nagios holds a 3.5% mindshare in IM, compared to NetApp’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Nagios users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Nagios Core

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80% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Nagios Core and NetApp Cloud Insights compete in the monitoring solutions category. Nagios Core gains an edge with its flexibility and cost-effectiveness, while NetApp Cloud Insights is favored for its robust analytics and multi-cloud deployment options.

Features: Nagios Core, known for its extensive flexibility, allows users to engage in deep customization through text file configurations. It offers potent notification and reporting capabilities with manual setup requirements and is valued for its lightweight architecture, supporting deployment on less powerful hardware. NetApp Cloud Insights provides advanced analytics with real-time monitoring, delivering comprehensive visualization and reporting capabilities. Its strength lies in environments needing detailed analytics across various vendor platforms.

Room for Improvement: Nagios Core could benefit from interface updates and easier setup procedures, as its complex configuration is challenging. Enhancements in dynamic device addition and improved reporting functions are necessary. NetApp Cloud Insights could advance its reporting and visualization tools for seamless integration. There's also potential for improved pricing transparency and refined query functions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nagios Core commonly uses on-premises deployment and relies on community-driven support, which may be difficult for users who require structured technical assistance. In contrast, NetApp Cloud Insights provides multi-cloud deployment, fitting various IT environments, complemented by official support services for troubleshooting issues.

Pricing and ROI: Nagios Core is preferred for its cost-effectiveness, being an open-source solution with zero licensing fees, which contributes to a favorable ROI for organizations with Linux expertise. NetApp Cloud Insights requires licensing for non-NetApp products, presenting pricing complexity based on feature utilization. It offers competitive pricing and good ROI through resource management, though budgeting for these licenses necessitates understanding capacity and usage.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Nagios Core

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (10th)

NetApp Cloud Insights

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

34th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (11th), Cloud Monitoring Software (24th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Nagios Core is 3.5%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Insights is 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Scott Lauters

Associate IT Director at Wolters Kluwer

It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment

All our production clusters are in Cloud Insight. It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment, which allows us to understand if any issues are going on across any of our clusters. The main issue we were looking to address was the lack of visibility across all the clusters in one single view. We're using Cloud Insight's Unified Manager. It has improved our ability to support and see the immediate status of the entire environment. If we have a critical incident, we can quickly see these issues and loop in monitoring teams and other teams. For example, if our app team thinks there are issues in the environment, we can quickly see if anything related to storage is part of the problem. It improved our organization by unifying all the various support teams. We all have the same view of what's happening in the environment. The dev team knows what storage is used or not, and we can quickly move on to other activities. Cloud Insights provides a single tool for containers and other cloud-based architectures, but we're not using some of those things, such as Kubernetes. We're primarily leveraging the monitoring and reporting. The solution does a great job of inventorying our resources. It allows us to put the tags on the devices. The process is fast. It also gives you the dependencies. I can dig down into all the related components. Cloud Insight's advanced analytics feature does a good job of highlighting the areas where there might be issues in the future.

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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

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

"The most valuable feature depends on the project. It's great if you need to check to ensure a service is running 24/7. I can use the full solution for free, and it's flexible. If I need to add a dashboard, I can integrate it with Nagios. Cloud synchronization is wonderful."

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

"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."

"The good thing about Nagios Core is it covers everything."

"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 features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."

"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."

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"NetApp Cloud Insights helps reduce the time spent on problem resolution by up to 50% for my customers, making their operations significantly more efficient and productive, which is a perfect outcome."

"One feature we appreciate the most is its ability to take snapshots, which adds an extra layer of security and allows us to protect our data effectively."

"The solution is 98 percent stable."

"The solution is easy to deploy."

"Its ability to quickly inventory our resources, figure out interdependencies across them, and assemble a topology of your environment is brilliant. There is a price associated with it. Whenever you target a NetApp environment, it is included in the price but whenever you want to add different vendors, like VMware and Cisco, the price greatly spikes. Inventorization helps us a lot to visualize the environment."

"All our production clusters are in Cloud Insight. It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment, which allows us to understand if any issues are going on across any of our clusters."

"Cloud Insights' best features are visibility and the connector to move the workloads."

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Cons

"The alerting mechanism in Nagios Core could be improved."

"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."

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

"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."

"The NetEase reporting structure needs improvement, especially the availability report, which is weak."

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

"There is room for improvement in the graphics."

"The mapping is a little hard."

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"In a perfect world we would have something built, right out-of-the-box, that can identify what we call "noise," and reduce the amount of data. You're presented with so much data when you first start the data collectors. For example, it brings back a lot of change rates that happen just because of standard computing, like profile changes and that sort of thing. Being able to identify things like that and categorize them and strip it down—and it probably can do that, I just haven't gotten there yet—would be very beneficial."

"In my opinion, one area where NetApp Cloud Insights could be improved for the next release is the console, which I find a bit complex."

"When I did need support because I was having problems with the solution, the first or the second line just didn't understand it. They were providing this only on a software as a service basis. So, they were asking all the wrong questions."

"The first level of NetApp's technical support could be improved."

"Most of the time, I initially connect with entry-level support, and then I need to request a higher-tier support level, which can result in delays."

"The visualization needs some improvement because there are occasional delays while the system queries information."

"Their pricing model needs improvement."

"There is room for improving the creating and managing or modifying of reports. That is still a difficult task to do and requires knowledge beyond the storage itself. I would love to see reporting improved so that we can create reports by dragging and dropping pieces into a report form and publish a report that way."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Nagios Core is free to use."

"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."

"We are using the free version."

"It's free."

"The product is cheaply priced."

"The solution is expensive."

"It's free."

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"Be aware of the capacity licensing and understand how that works, because it is based on capacity. Getting an understanding of that is the biggest thing."

"The solution is expensive."

"The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about the end-use managed units and having an easy place to reference how far those units go."

"We are billed based on management units, so we can purchase units based on six months, twelve months, twenty-four months, or thirty-six months upfront or pay as you go depending on our requirements."

"The solution's pricing is based on the device you purchase and includes support services."

"The licensing model could be improved. We love that you can use it for free for looking at NetApp products. You only need licenses to look at non-NetApp products, but as soon as you do that, you start utilizing licenses that actually would have been free in the public. So, there is a bit of an anomaly in the licensing model."

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Computer Software Company

15%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

33%

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Insights?

NetApp Cloud Insights helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting. Previously, if we had performance concerns or needed to interface with other groups and their products, a task that should req...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Insights?

The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about t...

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Insights?

In my opinion, one area where NetApp Cloud Insights could be improved for the next release is the console, which I find a bit complex. Even though I work with NetApp, it still takes time for me to ...

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Overview

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

Nagios

NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers.

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