We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Scout APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The features I've found the most useful are the plug-ins, the fact that you can connect almost everything to it. That's very useful."
"Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"The product can scale."
"The way Nagios displays information isn't easy for a new user to understand. It's not intuitive enough. You need to read some tutorials or be trained to understand what it's displaying. Also, I think it needs more features to improve network visibility because there are some things you can't detect."
"The installation and monitoring need improvement."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Nagios XI is ranked 8th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 30th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and New Relic.
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