Nagios Log Server is a comprehensive log management solution offering centralized log monitoring and analysis. It's designed for scalability and is used by organizations to gain insights from their system logs efficiently.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Nagios Log Server | 0.9% |
| Splunk Enterprise Security | 6.8% |
| IBM Security QRadar | 4.5% |
| Other | 87.8% |
Nagios Log Server facilitates real-time visibility into network activities and application data through its intuitive log collection and visualization capabilities. It supports organizations by offering a robust platform for managing large volumes of log data, making it easier to identify security threats and compliance issues. With its powerful indexing and searching capabilities, the server is essential for IT operations that require quick access to detailed log information.
What are the key features of Nagios Log Server?Nagios Log Server is particularly valuable in industries with stringent security and compliance requirements such as finance, healthcare, and IT services. Its deployment helps these sectors achieve superior log monitoring and analysis, ensuring both security and performance meet industry standards.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
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| Operation Director at Digital Pulse Sdn Bhd | 4.0 | In my company, we use Nagios Log Server for data center monitoring due to its affordability and valuable data features. However, the tool requires improvements in customization and dashboard presentation, and we switched from SonicWall and ManageEngine due to high licensing costs. |
| IT Infrastructure Manager at Virginia Transformer Corporation | 4.0 | I found Nagios Log Server effective for server health monitoring, praising its UI, alerts, and stability. However, the initial setup was complex, and I wish it were agentless and could analyze network bandwidth. I rate it 8/10. |
| Unix Administrator at emaratech | 4.0 | I recommend Nagios Log Server for log analysis and alerting, valuing its ease of use, dashboard, and affordability. My main concerns are its limited, US-based support and potential stability issues if host configurations aren't optimal. |
| Operation Director at Digital Pulse Sdn Bhd | 4.0 | As a consultant, I find Nagios Log Server affordable, easy to use, and open-source. However, direct customer purchasing and complex end-user administration hinder my profitability and protection, though I still rate it 8/10. |
The product has benefitted my organization. In terms of SLA in Nagios, there has been an improvement of 80 to 90 percent.
The most valuable feature of the solution is that Nagios Log Server sends me the data needed for monitoring the data centers of my customers. For my company, it is also a tool that is affordable enough to be deployed on the customer side.
The customization and dashboards have shortcomings and need to be improved to make the tool look more presentable. The reporting side of the product should allow users to have more customized reports.
I have been using Nagios Log Server for seven years. I use the solution's latest version. My company has a partnership with Nagios.
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Before updating to the new version, the tool needed some fine-tuning to be able to keep running properly. The issue usually occurs whenever the product's version is being updated.
The product has room for expanding the number of users and the number of devices. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
There are around 20 users, mostly engineers, who use Nagios Log Server in my company.
I had raised a ticket with the solution's technical support for some stability issues, and they helped me resolve my issues. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten since Nagios doesn't provide remote support.
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I had previously used SonicWall and ManageEngine. My company switched to Nagios Log Server because of the high licensing costs of SonicWall and ManageEngine.
The initial setup of Nagios Log Server was easy and straightforward.
The solution is deployed on-premises.
The deployment process takes around four to five hours.
My company pays around 500 to 1,000 USD per year toward the licensing cost of the solution. For support, we need to pay extra to Nagios. The solution's price is low.
On a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap, I rate the pricing an eight or nine.
Before choosing Nagios Log Server, we looked at a product named PRTG.
Five engineers are needed for the maintenance of the product.
I would definitely recommend the solution to those planning to use it.
To increase the rating for the product, Nagios should offer remote support and offer more customization in reporting while making it easy for the customers to use it.
Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
The use cases were to monitor the aggregate health of the servers, which were running in my infrastructure.
One of the most valuable features is the dashboard because the UI was effective and easy to use.
The alert systems are good as well.
We had no failovers and had high availability.
We can search the queries fast as well in Nagios Log Server.
The configurations during initial setup could be improved. If they could be agentless, as in the case of the Ansible product, it would be better.
I would like to be able to analyze the network bandwidth.
I used it for a year at my previous company.
It is stable, and the performance is also good.
It is easy to scale.
We had around four to five people in the company using this product.
The initial setup can be complex if you're doing it for the first time. That is, I found it to be complex the first time, but now that I've used the solution, the setup is not that complicated.
We had to do a lot of configurations. Nagios Log Server is a kind of agent service because we have to install the Nagios Log Server in the server. If you have to attach multiple systems on nodes, then you have to also do the configurations for those. If it can be done agentless, then it would be better.
I deployed it myself with the help of a colleague.
For a single instance, the price is around $4,000.
My advice would be to first go to the product, read about the features, the pricing, and how to deploy the Log Server in your environment, and then make the final decision.
Overall, I would give Nagios Log Server a rating of eight on a scale from one to ten.
It's for analyzing logs in the web server. For example, if there is a password authentication failure attempt happening on a Windows server, we need to check how many times this logging failure happened. We can check in Log Server for the logs and check all machines whenever password authentication failures happen. We can also see if there is some DDoS there. If so, the server will send the logs to the Nagios Log Server, and we can get them in the dashboard. We can even set up alerts for these types of logs.
It's easy to add the client host to Log Server, and we can manage everything easily. We can see the logs easily through the web dashboard, and there are different charts available for viewing.
Also, we can, using a search tool, we can query for events. If something happens in the server, we can query and trigger alerts. We can trigger alerts if some query happened in the server.
The product is scalable.
The support could be better. They only offer email support. You have to fill out a form. There is no chat, only email.
The solution can crash sometimes if not enough hosts are available.
I've been using the solution for five years now.
It is stable, sometimes. If it's for a single instance, a specific number of hosts must be added. For example, if 100 hosts are running, then it is stable. If we add more, maybe sometimes there is database corruption. It can overload and crash if there are not enough hosts.
The solution can scale.
Support could be better.
The main issue is that their support is in the US. They are only available in a certain timeframe. For a different country, when we raise a ticket, we need to wait for the reply to come, which is during their working hours and not necessarily ours.
The initial setup is straightforward. It's not overly difficult.
The entire setup of Nagios takes one week at a maximum. For the Log Server server setup, it only takes one hour. That said, adding all the logs and client machines could take time, depending on if we need to open the firewall, for example.
When compared to other monitoring tools, the price is lower. For example, compared to SolarWinds, it's cheaper.
My company is a featured partner of Nagios XI. So I'm implementing Nagios XI in different companies and supporting the product.
I'd recommend the solution. It offers a lot of benefits and has a good dashboard. It's pretty easy to get up and running, and the pricing is good. The only thing is it's hard to get support if you are outside the US.
I'd rate the product eight out of ten.
A great feature of the solution involves its internal portal. The architecture is based on the open source and I find it very easy to use. Their community team developed many parts that I can use with my customers. The monitoring I have done makes configuring easier.
The most important feature involves the pricing, which I found to be quite affordable when it comes to the setting by us of one of our product services.
The Log Server should be addressed. Primarily, my customers would appreciate updates regarding the GI. They wish to know how I obtained a part from one server and, consequently, which improvements can be made.
For my part, there is no one specific module that I wish to upgrade. We are not at the point in Malaysia of adding much log analysis. The customer usually does not provide feedback and is generally not involved in the planning stages or in the generating of ideas, in so far as upgrades for the product are concerned.
When it comes to administrative needs, the solution is not a share product that can be passed on to the end user for direct administration. For the majority of our customers, services are purchased for monitoring or supplying the license, installation, management and administrative needs throughout the contractual period. For me to rate this product a perfect score of ten, it would need to have the capabilities allowing a person who lacks any IT knowledge to use and administer it.
Also, as we are talking about a product which is open to the public, the pricing makes it challenging for us to profit off of its marketing.
Over the past year I have occasionally sold the solution for its monitoring capabilities, which sees a combining of the vendor and data center maintenance capabilities. As such, the solution can be purchased directly from the website, which means I do not have a mechanism to guarantee my protection, since I am the one who will be introducing the solution to the customer.
While it is possible that those in charge of the solution's technical aspects would have more to add, this is what I can come up with offhand.
I have been using Nagios Log Server for two or three years.
We found the pricing to be quite affordable.
My advice is that the customer first have a good idea of what he is looking for. It is at this point that I will enter the picture as a consultant and will advise if this is the appropriate Log Server solution. Since the information needed may only comprise a portion of the full functionality, it is a good idea to start with Nagios Z. Nagios Log Server can support everything. The person will have the option of reducing the size of his solution.
Most of my customers will require a tailor made solution and will initially seek one which is offerred on the market, such as this Log Server or some type of SIEM. I will act as a consultant to tailor their log analyzing solution needs.
I rate Nagios Log Server as an eight out of ten.
