Nagios Core vs Nutanix Prism comparison

The compared Nagios and Nutanix solutions aren't in the same category. Nagios is ranked #10 in NMS , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 1.9% mindshare in the category. Nutanix is ranked #4 in VM , with an average rating of 8.8, and holds a 9.1% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Nagios users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

Nagios Core

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80% willing to recommend

Nutanix Prism

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98% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and Nutanix Prism based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Nagios Core vs. Nutanix Prism

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

8.9

Nagios Core boosted operational efficiency, reduced costs, minimized downtime, and significantly improved productivity and disaster recovery times.

Sentiment score

6.8

Nutanix Prism enhances management efficiency, reduces costs, and provides ROI through staff reduction and streamlined operations despite higher initial costs.

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Using Nutanix Prism, a task that took a complete day can now be solved in hours.

Aniket Wankhede

Associate Systems Engineer at Dhanyaayai enterprise private limited

Initially, the CapEx was higher than VMware's, but considering the operational cost over time, it has been beneficial.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

You will get 60% ROI with Nutanix Prism on-premises.

MukundKambli

Lead Solutions Architect at Team Computers

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.5

Nagios Core relies on community and documentation for support, offering valuable resources but facing scalability and consistency challenges.

Sentiment score

7.8

Nutanix Prism support is praised for prompt, knowledgeable service, high reliability, and effective resolution of complex issues.

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Basic means standard business hours support, Production means 24/7, Mission Critical means faster SLA with technical account managers connectivity, and Ultimate means full white-glove support with a dedicated team.

Usha Rani

Director at Eglobe infra solutions

Nutanix support is excellent, and their response time is extremely fast.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

If there is any hardware issue with HP or Dell, customers don't need to raise tickets with the hardware OEM. They can raise tickets on the Nutanix portal itself.

MukundKambli

Lead Solutions Architect at Team Computers

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

Nagios Core is highly scalable, supporting diverse infrastructures with open-source flexibility, despite some horizontal scaling concerns.

Sentiment score

7.8

Nutanix Prism is highly praised for its effortless scalability, supporting large environments with minimal downtime and straightforward expansion.

The solution is scalable.

Husham Yaqoob

Senior System Administrator at Interactive Group

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Nutanix Prism is completely scalable; you can add nodes and disks without using downtime, allowing for easy scaling.

Biniyam Samuel

Junior System Cloud Engineer at DeliverICT

You can scale it up and scale down your networking.

Aniket Wankhede

Associate Systems Engineer at Dhanyaayai enterprise private limited

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.6

Nagios Core is highly stable and reliable, offering exceptional performance on Linux with minimal plugin-related issues.

Sentiment score

7.8

Nutanix Prism is highly reliable and stable, with quick bug resolutions, minor update challenges, and excellent user satisfaction.

I tried many other solutions at work, however, in terms of Nagios, I haven't seen any disruption or downtime.

Husham Yaqoob

Senior System Administrator at Interactive Group

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I have not experienced any downtimes, crashes, or performance issues with Nutanix Prism.

Biniyam Samuel

Junior System Cloud Engineer at DeliverICT

The entire Nutanix solution is stable.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

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Room For Improvement

Nagios Core needs a modernized interface, simplified configuration, scalability, and integration with tools like Grafana for improved usability.

Nutanix Prism needs interface, pricing, and automation improvements, better third-party integration, enhanced analytics, migration ease, and licensing flexibility.

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The presales and marketing team should inform clients about resource requirements, such as RAM used by CVM, to help manage expectations.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

Nutanix Prism needs to enhance its operational efficiency through API development.

Aniket Wankhede

Associate Systems Engineer at Dhanyaayai enterprise private limited

Regarding Nutanix Prism's single pane overview, the limitation is that you cannot troubleshoot all errors from Prism Central; you sometimes need to log into the CLI to change settings such as the IP address of the CVM in the AHV.

Biniyam Samuel

Junior System Cloud Engineer at DeliverICT

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Setup Cost

Nagios Core provides cost-effective, open-source monitoring with engineering setup and maintenance, requiring customization expertise for full benefits.

Enterprise buyers find Nutanix Prism's pricing variable, appreciating features but noting high costs and complex licensing compared to alternatives.

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At first, the cost seemed heavy, but over time, its cost-effectiveness became evident.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

I hear that Nutanix Prism is more expensive than others, but as a technical person, I don't know the details about the pricing aspect.

Biniyam Samuel

Junior System Cloud Engineer at DeliverICT

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Valuable Features

Nagios Core offers extensible plugins, alerting, customizable dashboards, proactive monitoring, and integration, enhancing system reliability and minimizing downtime.

Nutanix Prism excels with unified management, intuitive interface, automation, and analytics, enhancing IT operations and infrastructure management.

It has a very handy dashboard, providing live alerts and visibility for everything.

Husham Yaqoob

Senior System Administrator at Interactive Group

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Nutanix Prism is completely scalable; you can add nodes and disks without downtime, allowing for easy scaling.

Biniyam Samuel

Junior System Cloud Engineer at DeliverICT

One of the most useful features is the disaster recovery setup, which includes two clusters, one for our production server and another for our recovery site.

Khurram Hussain

Head of Infrastructure Operations Security at Gulf Cable & Elec. Ind. Co.

Nutanix Prism is a unified management control plane, so it simplifies our operations on a daily basis with computing, storage, networking, and virtualization using a single platform.

Aniket Wankhede

Associate Systems Engineer at Dhanyaayai enterprise private limited

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Categories and Ranking

Nagios Core

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (10th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th)

Nutanix Prism

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Virtualization Management Tools (4th), Data Center Infrastructure Management (7th)

Mindshare comparison

Nagios Core and Nutanix Prism aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Nagios Core is designed for Network Monitoring Software and holds a mindshare of 1.9%, down 3.0% compared to last year.
Nutanix Prism, on the other hand, focuses on Virtualization Management Tools, holds 9.1% mindshare, down 15.2% since last year.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nagios Core	1.9%
Zabbix	5.0%
SolarWinds NPM	3.6%
Other	89.5%

Network Monitoring Software

Virtualization Management Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nutanix Prism	9.1%
VMware Aria Operations	25.2%
IBM Turbonomic	13.5%
Other	52.2%

Virtualization Management Tools

Featured Reviews

Husham Yaqoob

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.

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Aniket Wankhede

Associate Systems Engineer at Dhanyaayai enterprise private limited

Unified management has simplified daily operations and has reduced troubleshooting time

Nutanix Prism is a unified management control plane, so it simplifies our operations on a daily basis with computing, storage, networking, and virtualization using a single platform. We can manage our VMs by automating them, using one-click upgrades at different cluster levels, and monitoring our VMs. The best features are unified management, one-click upgrades, intelligent operation management, and built-in security with automated management. It simplifies day-to-day tasks. Built-in security in Nutanix Prism helps as it includes role-based access management, which is known as RBAC. By giving specific roles to specific users, we manage our security. There is also a cluster lockdown capability and an auditing feature. We use RBAC for managing all the workloads that are present on Nutanix Prism. Automated management simplifies everyday tasks and provides network load balance visibility.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Computer Software Company

24%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	23

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	28

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.

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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 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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What do you like most about Nutanix Prism?

Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Prism?

I hear that Nutanix Prism is more expensive than others, but as a technical person, I don't know the details about the pricing aspect.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Prism?

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Overview

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

Nagios

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

Nutanix

Sample Customers

Airbnb, Cisco, PayPal, FanDuel

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen

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