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We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Sumo Logic Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Nagios XI vs. Sumo Logic Observability Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The solution is pretty stable.""The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent.""It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring.""It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability.""Nagios XI helps us monitor the bandwidth of the internet connection, HTTP, DNS, active directory services, and exchange data availability. We have multiple servers to monitor databases, availability of servers, and ping.""You want to monitor a specific metric that nobody else has? You can do it even with the most basic of scripting skills, and you can always share it with the vast community of Nagios Exchange.""Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature.""The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."

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"The solution allows multiple groups to converge on a unified platform, allowing for different utilization by various teams.""Sumo Logic Observability presents a range of valuable features, including well-crafted dashboards and a diverse selection of helpful apps. However, personally, I don't hold a favorable opinion of the solution. While I don't struggle with writing queries, my main difficulty lies in recruiting competent individuals and ensuring their proficiency in utilizing the solution. This often leads to additional challenges and complexities. From my perspective, when compared to Microsoft Sentinel or even Splunk, Sumo Logic Observability has a steeper learning curve. One contributing factor to this disparity is the solution's long existence in the market compared to Synlogic. Nevertheless, I acknowledge that there are capable and knowledgeable professionals employed at Sumo Logic Observability. The effectiveness of the solution largely depends on how it is integrated into your internal operations and environment. Its utility and benefits can vary significantly. It is worth noting that organizations like the NSA and, I believe, the CIA used it in the past, primarily for rapidly searching and analyzing large volumes of data. To leverage its capabilities effectively, you must determine how to tailor it to your specific needs.""Alerting and consistency are key. We have different tiers with log collectors, and continuous querying provides near-real-time updates. It's almost like instantly when something happens, like pending transactions or error fees. This helps reduce incident resolution time compared to waiting for thresholds on other platforms. We can continue logging in with them seamlessly and quickly get into action.""I have not seen any stability issues in the product.""The product is easy to learn."

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Cons
"The reporting part should be made simpler. While we can obtain all the reports we need, we always have to create work-arounds to get them.""The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered.""Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look.""The interface could be more user-friendly.""We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios.""The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present.""The installation and monitoring need improvement.""We'd like to see more integration capabilities."

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"Implementing a more streamlined enrichment process, and conceptualizing the observability data collection as an ETL pipeline would be helpful.""Fine-grained data can be quite frustrating to work with and should be made easier.""SearchUI.exe is a bit clunky in the product, making it an area where the product needs improvements.""Documentation could be better. While it's generally good, sometimes finding what you need requires extensive searching. It's not always clear where to look for specific things."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing is really cost efficient. The licensing is perpetual and can be renewed very easily."
  • "You can grow into the higher-priced scale as they learn how to utilize the features for Nagios XI."
  • "For the cost of the commercial product and support, and taking into account the open source characteristics of it, I believe it is difficult to a better value."
  • "We are using the free version of this solution."
  • "This solution is very expensive, at approximately $5,000 USD when I purchased it, which is why I haven't upgraded my version in several years."
  • "The licensing fees for this solution are approximately $3,000 USD per year."
  • "The pricing is high with separate licensing for the product and support."
  • "Nagios Core does not have any payment, but Nagios XI requires payment for the license."
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  • "I started on the free tier to try it out, but because of our usage, we're now paying for it."
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    I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want using these, but they require quite some expertise before you can use them. Then there are the ones that are not open source, the enterprise softwares and cost you some money, but on the other hand, they are extremely easy to set-up and learn. You can have them up and running in a matter of minutes. And then there are those which are completely cloud based. They can be free of cost or charge some money depending on the software. The good thing about these is that you don’t have to install any extra software, and it can be managed completely online but then again these have limited features and you cannot exploit them to the full extent as you can do with the open-source and to some extent the enterprise software, so I won’t suggest you to use these, because these are generally not the complete solutions and require other support software to achieve the same. Below I have listed the outstanding pros and cons of the various Network analyzers that you can look into Nagios Pros: Nagios offers an extensive set of collector plug-ins that allows users to gather performance and availability data from a broad range of operating systems, including  Windows and Netware Nagios… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability.
    Top Answer:I don't deal with the licensing aspect of the product.
    Top Answer:The product's stability could be even better.
    Top Answer:We accumulate more systems, and they become more ephemeral. Consequently, this leads to an exponential increase in observability data. Therefore, it's crucial to continuously explore, employ, and… more »
    Top Answer:The product helps to monitor data and alerts when it is triggered.
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    Overview

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

    Nagios XI uses a powerful Core 4 monitoring engine that provides users with the highest levels of server monitoring performance. This high degree of performance enables nearly limitless scalability and monitoring powers.

    With Nagios XI, stakeholders can check up on their infrastructure status using the role-based web interface. Sophisticated dashboards enable access to monitoring information and third-party data. Administrators can easily set up permissions so users can only access the infrastructure they are authorized to view.

    Nagios XI Benefits and Features

    Some of the benefits and top features of using Nagios XI include:

    • Extensive IT infrastructure monitoring: Comprehensively monitor all of your organization’s infrastructure’s components. Hundreds of third-party add-ons let you monitor virtually any internal application, service, or system.

    • Proactivity: With built-in, automated trend analysis and capacity planning charts, organizations can plan infrastructure upgrades before legacy systems encounter unexpected issues. IT staff, business stakeholders, and end users are notified via email or SMS with details of the outage so they can begin handling the issue immediately.

    • Multiple integration options: Numerous available APIs allow seamless integration with in-house and third-party applications. Thousands of community-developed add-ons that extend monitoring and native alerting capabilities as well as custom interfaces are available, allowing you to customize Nagios XI to your company's needs.

    • Complete visibility: Get a single view of your entire IT operations network and business processes. The Nagios XI dashboards provide at-a-glance access to monitoring information and third-party data. Views give users quick access to the most useful information.

    • User-friendly interface: Customize the layout, design, and settings for each user’s GUI, providing clients and team members with the flexibility they need. Administrators can easily delegate control over monitoring configuration management, system settings, and more to end users and team members using the built-in web-based configuration interface. A configuration wizard guides users through the process of monitoring new devices, services, and applications without understanding complex monitoring concepts.

    • Configuration snapshots: Snapshots allow you to save and archive your most recent configurations. Later on, you can revert back to them whenever you like.

    • Advanced user management: Ensure a secure infrastructure environment by easily setting up and managing user accounts and assigning custom roles with just a few mouse clicks.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Nagios XI stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its integration options and monitoring abilities, as well as its alerting features.

    David P., a senior DevOps engineer at EML Payments Ltd, writes, “We use Nagios as a network discovery tool. We use Nagios to maintain our uptime statistics and to monitor our services. It has allowed us to be much more sophisticated in our monitoring and alerting.”

    An IT-OSS manager at a comms service provider notes, “Nagios XI has a custom API feature, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature.”

    Sumo Logic empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Our cloud-native SaaS analytics platform powered by logs helps customers deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications. With Sumo Logic, practitioners and developers can ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern threats and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide rely on our scalable platform to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications. For more information, visit: SUMOLOGIC.COM

    Sample Customers
    Nagios has over one million users globally, including AOL, DHL, McAfee, MCI, MTV, Yahoo!, Universal, Toshiba, Sony, Siemens, and JPMorgan Chase.
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    Comms Service Provider32%
    Manufacturing Company24%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Retailer8%
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    Educational Organization49%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Financial Services Firm5%
    Government5%
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company19%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Media Company8%
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    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise34%
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    Midsize Enterprise54%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise67%
    Buyer's Guide
    Nagios XI vs. Sumo Logic Observability
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Nagios XI vs. Sumo Logic Observability and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Nagios XI is ranked 10th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 54 reviews while Sumo Logic Observability is ranked 26th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 5 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Sumo Logic Observability is rated 8.0. 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 Sumo Logic Observability writes "Easy creation of custom fields, no need to alter applications; supports ten active logging applications simultaneously and faster than aster than default search tools". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas Sumo Logic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Prometheus and Chronosphere. See our Nagios XI vs. Sumo Logic Observability report.

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