We performed a comparison between Nagios XI, SCOM, and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."
"Nagios allows us to configure any device so that we can send pager alerts when people don't have access to emails. It also allows us to schedule downtime and maintenance."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"It's easy to use."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"The integration with other SolarWinds products is good."
"They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it."
"The dashboard alerts me when a critical device goes off the network."
"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical."
"The program is scalable enough for our usage."
"The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network."
"SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"Nagios XI can improve network and hardware monitoring, these parameters should be simplified to allow usage for monitoring. Additionally, if there was automatic reporting it would be helpful."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature."
"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."
"Technical support could be improved with quicker response times."
"This solution does not do a very good job when I am trying to look deeper into my internal network, in particular with respect to individual ports."
"I would like to see more training videos and additional material for learning how to use this solution."
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