Nagios Core vs Pico Corvil Analytics comparison

Nagios and PICO are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Nagios is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.7, while PICO is ranked #71. Nagios holds a 1.9% mindshare in NMS, compared to PICO’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Nagios users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of PICO users who would recommend it.

Nagios Core

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80% willing to recommend

Pico Corvil Analytics

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100% willing to recommend

Nagios Core

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Pico Corvil Analytics and Nagios Core compete in network performance monitoring. Data suggests Pico Corvil has the upper hand with advanced analytics, while Nagios is preferred for its open-source flexibility.

Features: Pico Corvil offers real-time traffic analysis, detailed packet inspection, and intuitive data visualization. Nagios Core provides robust monitoring configurations, plugin support, and alerting for various IT infrastructure components.

Room for Improvement: Pico Corvil could improve its cost, broaden its open-source support, and enhance customizability. Nagios might benefit from more guided deployment, improved vendor support, and streamlined integration.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pico Corvil offers a guided deployment model with strong vendor support, streamlining enterprise integration. Nagios Core requires more manual setup but offers comprehensive documentation and community support.

Pricing and ROI: Pico Corvil involves a higher initial setup cost but promises significant returns through detailed insights and proactive issue resolution. Nagios Core, being free and open-source, offers a lower entry cost but might impact ROI due to customization and maintenance resources.

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Categories and Ranking

Nagios Core

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th)

Pico Corvil Analytics

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

71st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Nagios Core is 1.9%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pico Corvil Analytics is 0.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nagios Core	1.9%
Pico Corvil Analytics	0.5%
Other	97.6%

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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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Ted Hruzd

Founder at AI Fit LLC

Helpful support agents, beneficial issue detection, and high availability

The creation of charts and real-time windows was somewhat cumbersome. The vendor's website had an application called App Agent that required improvement. This API was designed to track message rates between microservers ingested into a microservice memory map. It allowed users to monitor the number of transactions that occurred at specific points within the application, and it was quite impressive. However, it had some limitations, and it mainly served as a tool for basic tracking. The protocols it employed could reveal the type of server-to-server communication and the specific order types, but it was not able to provide a more in-depth analysis of the application. The vendor has the potential to integrate application metrics more extensively into their product suite. The product suite could benefit from more out-of-the-box predictive analytics capabilities, such as projecting market or symbol movements. However, it is unclear whether the vendor currently provides this functionality. Users may need to adjust their software to perform such analysis independently.

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

"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."

"Other products are good but from the configuration point of view Nagios is really very lightweight. The price is really good in my opinion. Another important thing is that my Nagios engine still works with Dual core 8GB ram for the last 10 years."

"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."

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

"Alert calls occur anytime a service goes down or a matrix is difficult and that helps us to quickly restore service and transfer work."

"The poller is really good, I can easily implement new stuff and it is scalable."

"We've got a medium size distributed system with a lot of locally installed machines, and Nagios provides us with a solid and reliable monitoring solution for these machines."

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"Corvil is really useful, if you want to produce statistics for your application across different platforms then I would definitely recommend it."

"We can use CLI with the UI for configuring the new monitoring system, which is good."

"It is a market leader in latency detection and monitoring with extremely precise time stamping even over a wide area."

"Time-series graphs are very good for performance analysis. We can do comparisons... We can say this is the latency in the last 24 hours, and this was the same 24-hour period a week ago and overlay the two time-series graphs on top of each other, so we can see the difference. That's a really powerful tool for us."

"We use the data to analyze how much time we spend within the applications. Then, based on that, we are doing multiple analyses and types of investigations to work on reducing the amount of time spent on the latency, which helps our applications."

"Corvil is a great tool; it is the only one of the vendors that has 100% visibility into the market data stream."

"It has all the decoders so it's capturing every network packet and it's decoding in real-time and it's giving us latency information in real-time... It's the real-time decoding and getting the latency information statistics that we find the most useful."

"It allows us to trace the flow. The logic is built sufficiently for us to be able to break down clients' orders, underlying child orders, and execution. Thus, it's a good way for us to trace client flow through a myriad of different internal systems."

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Cons

"We use the free version of Nagios, which needs some administrative skills in order to configure correctly."

"Nagios' great customizability is also one of its greatest drawback."

"Default interface is clunky and slow."

"This is the open source product, so it's a toolkit rather than a complete solution."

"I would like to see a much better Nagios Manager GUI that can support all type of configuration items, and advance search options."

"Application level monitoring is limited."

"We're using the free version, which limits us in terms of the things that we can do."

"Lessening the price point would be an improvement."

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"Sometimes, when you are saving any configuration and making changes, there are times something is missing. An error comes up, or sometimes there is no error, and the errors are not very straightforward as to the issue."

"In terms of performance analysis, if you really want to dig down into the minutiae and get statistics on the important things... that would be the only piece lacking because, in our environment, we have thousands and thousands of symbols. With the architecture that Corvil is built on, it's cumbersome."

"It is perceived as an expensive option, even in the financial services sector."

"There is definitely room for improvement in the reporting... The whole interface where you build reports and schedule them is very clunky and I find that, whereas on the GUI you can pull out all the metrics you want and it's very flexible and nice and easy to customize, the reporting is not very intuitive."

"Alerting isn't great... you can only put in one email address in. And that's for all kinds of alerting on the box."

"I have seen errors where the CNE and the CMC haven't synced because of something missing in the CMC, which was there in the CNE. We would get some type of error, but it doesn't actually say what exactly was missing in the CNE."

"While the product is scalable, it's not easy to scale. It needs investment hardware and network bandwidth consideration. It's not something you can just do overnight."

"While the product is scalable, it's not easy to scale. It needs investment hardware and network bandwidth consideration."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Most the plugin features are free."

"We are using the free version of Nagios Core."

"We have saved a lot of time, money, and effort in reducing disaster times, which is owed to Nagios quick alerting."

"Lessening the price point would be an improvement."

"Nagios Core is a cheap solution."

"The enterprise version has technical support. The version we are using is free."

"It's free."

"Nagios Core is free to use."

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"I like the way they've decoupled the hardware now... Everything's based on the licensing side now. The way they do the packs is fair. It's very flexible in that we're not charged per decoder, we're charged for a certain pack. Whether we use one decoder or 20 decoders, as long as they're in the same pack, there's no extra charge. Expensive but fair is how I'd summarize it."

"As I am working more with Corvil, it looks like it is improving diagnostic times."

"Corvil has reduced the time it takes us to isolate root causes."

"Pico Corvil Analytics is expensive. There are several competitors in the market. Selling this solution to a trading firm might be challenging as there are several other solutions available that can perform basic similar operations, such as using Wireshark and Python scripts to obtain the required values. However, that does not nearly approach the comprehensive end-2-end automated depth of metrics and their correlations that Pico Corvil Analytics provides."

"The pricing is very expensive. Corvil could work on the pricing."

"We bought a box from Corvil and it was $200,000 for one big CNE. Then there are obviously the recurring maintenance fees. The licensing is perpetual but the maintenance fees are not."

"It is pricey versus its competitors."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

40%

Computer Software Company

Non Profit

Comms Service Provider

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	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

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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Corvil

Overview

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

Nagios

Corvil transforms Network Data with speed and precision into the powerful real-time truth. Corvil captures, decodes, reassembles, and enriches vast amounts of data in motion, adding analytics and making the resulting enriched data and IT Operations Analytics available to humans, machines and other systems.

PICO

Sample Customers

Airbnb, Cisco, PayPal, FanDuel

NASDAQ, Commerzbank, Pico Quantitative Trading, CME Group, Interactive Data, Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc.

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