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Nagios Core vs NetXMS comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Nagios Core
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
19th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (16th)
NetXMS
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
78th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Nagios Core is 1.4%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetXMS is 0.3%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nagios Core1.4%
NetXMS0.3%
Other98.3%
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Featured Reviews

HY
Senior System Administrator at Interactive Group
Monitoring solution provides comprehensive visibility across IT infrastructure
The good thing about Nagios Core is it covers everything. Everything in the IT domain, you can monitor anything. You can even monitor printers, the ports of printers, Core workstations, and storage. You can monitor the workflow Core and the utilization of computes. If you want to grasp everything of your IT equipment on a single interface, you can use Nagios. It's the best one. It provides dashboards, and you can also configure your emails and alerts with it. If something is critical, you can configure it to notify via emails. It has a very handy dashboard, providing live alerts and visibility for everything.
UK
AGM Cybersecurity at Microscan Computers Private Limited
Offers custom monitoring functionality, user-friendly interface, custom maps feature and open source
Based on my experience, there should be options for using the latest communication methods, like social media integration. Telegram is already integrated, but SMS and other alert options would be beneficial. So, integrating social media notifications into NetXMS would be a good thing. As a large company, we integrate different systems together. We'd like to see some improved functionalities for enhanced integration. For example, our incident management system isn't currently integrated with NetXMS. Ideally, we'd like the alerts generated in the monitoring system to automatically create tickets in our ticketing system, similar to how some other systems function. NetXMS doesn't offer this functionality itself because they are not an incident management or ticketing system vendor. They allow integration with other vendors, but our ticketing system isn't currently supported. So they recommend using it with any other application of our choice.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We have the ability right now to see and create reports to tell whether or not we're meeting our SLAs on our production servers, through it."
"It sends alerts to the right people which ensures there is no delay in the correct person or team looking into issues, and it has helped to reduce downtime in the production environment to almost zero so we now spend less time on network or server administration."
"Extensibility is good as this makes it easy to write checks on your own."
"Nagios is able to minimize server downtime and this in turn helps to generate more revenue."
"Using Nagios, I'm managing more than 1000 services, which involves the following operating nodes: IBM AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, HP-Unix, Windows enterprise-grade OS, Cisco router/switches, FortiGate and WatchGuard firewalls, APC UPS systems, and many more."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"Nagios Core is very configurable. Whatever you want, you can do it."
"The poller is really good, I can easily implement new stuff and it is scalable."
"We have a large network spanning over 1000 kilometers. NetXMS provides visibility and sends alerts. Typically, most monitoring systems monitor every 60 seconds, but NetXMS allows us to adjust this. For critical links, we can set it to check every second. For our high-priority financial customers, we monitor every second. So, every three seconds, we receive another email and a Telegram alert. This helps us meet our SLAs (Service Level Agreements) with our high-priority customers."
 

Cons

"The dashboard should be improved."
"The initial setup was complex, mainly because it was in Linux and had many packages that we're not used to."
"Application level monitoring is limited."
"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"The alerting mechanism in Nagios Core could be improved."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
"Nagios Core could improve by adding a user interface. If you want the user interface you have to use Nagios XI."
"Based on my experience, there should be options for using the latest communication methods, like social media integration. Telegram is already integrated, but SMS and other alert options would be beneficial. So, integrating social media notifications into NetXMS would be a good thing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Nagios Core is a cheap solution."
"The product is cheaply priced."
"Nagios Core is free to use."
"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
"The enterprise version has technical support. The version we are using is free."
"We are using the free version of Nagios Core."
"Nagios Core is an open source solution, and there are no licensing fees."
"The solution is expensive."
"Since it's open-source, there are obviously no licensing fees. There are additional operational costs, like the cost of hosting it somewhere."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise24
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Questions from the Community

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.
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.
What is your primary use case for Nagios Core?
I was a senior system administrator. I've been using Nagios Core for more than ten years now. It can be used to monitor hosts, such as machines, and monitor services of any kind. I'm using it to mo...
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