Nagios XI vs Opsview Monitor comparison

Nagios XI provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Hundreds of third-party addons provide for monitoring of virtually all in-house and external applications, services, and systems.

Opsview Monitor is a modern and scalable monitoring solution that gives your organization full visibility into on-premises and cloud IT infrastructure. It delivers simplified management and a single pane of glass view of your entire IT operations. The solution provides unified insight into dynamic IT operations on premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Additionally, it can be used either in agent-based or agentless configurations.

Opsview monitors:

• Operating systems
• Networks
• Cloud
• VMs
• Containers
• Databases
• Applications

Opsview Features

Opsview Monitor comes with an array of features, including:

• AutoMonitor express scan: This feature makes it easy for you to keep up with your changing IT infrastructure by helping you find new Windows, VMware, and Azure hosts.

• Business service monitoring: This enables you to see the health of all of your end-to-end business services in real time and in one place.

• Autodiscovery: With this feature you can automatically discover and profile hosts in your environment, which helps you quickly populate information into Opsview for monitoring.

• Network analyzer: Opsview Monitor provides you with a complete picture of your company's network infrastructure via its Network Topology, Flow Collector, & NetAudit modules.

• Customizable dashboards: Opsview Monitor’s dashboards give you a view of all of your monitoring metrics in interactive dashboards that are easy to create and maintain.

• Customizable reports: With Opsview Monitor, reports connect to the Opsview Data Warehouse and present historical data collected by Opsview. The solution’s out-of-the-box reports include performance, SLA, and events.

• Disaster recovery: Opsview Monitor gives your organization peace of mind with its disaster recovery by restoring your Opsview system if needed.

• Event handlers: Opsview Monitor’s event handlers allow for automation and proactive monitoring so that your users are not impacted.

• Events viewer: The events viewer feature helps you easily see all of the important events in your Opsview system.

• High availability server: Opsview has a high availability monitor that offers protection to ensure that you never lose IT infrastructure visibility.

• Multitenancy: Multitenancy makes it possible for your MSP to give control of Opsview to your end users. It also allows you to create new hosts and roles as well as users while using a secure, private environment.

• Log analytics: This feature allows you to improve logging visibility, reporting, correlation, and alerting..

• SNMP traps: With SNMP traps, you can reduce your network and server load and provide faster service to your customers.

Opsview Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Opsview Monitor. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

• Extensible: Opsview Monitor can be used in agent-based or agentless configurations. In addition, it can sit above multiple monitoring tools, aggregating information into a single pane of glass.

• Scalable: Opsview Monitor is very scalable. It can easily scale beyond 10,000 monitored devices via its distributed model that spreads monitoring across many monitoring engines. Its databases may be located on dedicated servers to further distribute load.

• Functional overview: Opsview Monitor monitors your IT infrastructure, network and applications, and displays alerts. It is also designed to generate notifications and integrate with your other service management tools.

• Flexible: Opsview Monitor has a flexible web framework, allowing dashboards and monitoring views to be easily customized and extended.