Nagios XI Reviews

We have installed  Nagios Core and Nagios XI on many customers in Latam successfully. A good use case was one customer with many servers (upper 1000) and many routers and switches (upper 2000), they wanted to monitoring operating systems and switches ports, Nagios worked like to swiss watch.

With Nagios, I can monitor since a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company. Also, I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies. Nagios is great for verify quality and quantity in a datacenter. Nagios can show if there are problems showed behavior in datacenters.

The community, Nagios XI is made on Nagios Core base, and the community makes plugins on almost any language of programming. Nagios is not owned by any brand.

The second feature is Nagios is very friendly, if you can customize the tool to the specific environment.

If you want the best security: Log Server is better. If you need in-depth networking, I recommend Network Analyzer. If you want any other implementation of Nagios, the best is Nagios Fusion.

More than ten years.

Nagios is very stable, We haven't reports on problems with the Nagios servers in never opportunities.

You should be careful when you monitor many hardwares with many softwares, the performance of one license could be compromised. You need to manage more than one license if you have an infrastructure which is very large.

10 out of 10.

Yes, I have used other solutions. I switched to Nagios, because Nagios is not linked with any brand that's independent. This is good because you can monitor any brand of switches, routers, servers, central phones, etc.

The initial configuration is very easy. The complex is customizing the solution.

We are an expert consultant, who implements for customers.

It's complicated answer this question, but the ROI depends on Datacenter.

It is good to contact experts for advice about what is the best solution for your specific infrastructure and enterprise.

I evaluated Zenoss, Zabbix, SolarWinds, and other solutions.

You will need an expert consultant for the best implementation.

The main use case is the monitoring of infrastructure environments.

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 are the product's flexibility and the daily and monthly availability reports.

An area for improvement would be that when we need any modifications for the configurations, we need to delete the host and configure through CPM. It would be great if they could add a feature so that the existing host can be modified through XI. In the next release, I'd like them to add an option to modify the results when configuring through results.

I've been working with Nagios XI for the last four years.

I'm happy with our service.

The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered.

I previously used Nagios Core but switched because there was no DUI, so we had to do every configuration on the line.

The setup was easy, taking between 15 and 20 days, and I would rate my experience as 3.5.

Licensing is available quarterly.

Nagios is a good product, which can configure many kinds of plugins. I would give this product a rating of eight out of ten.

We use the solution in order to collect large amounts of data to monitor our network, switches, and firewall.

It provides an easy and powerful solution to network monitoring so I can pay attention to other concerns.

The most valuable feature is the setup wizard. The wizard just asks you for simple details and automatically starts collecting logs. It will give you some hints to configure your login on remote devices.

For enterprise users, the product would be better if it came with dedicated plugins. It has an online store for plugins and additional features, but most of the plugins we have are mostly open source. These open source plugins do not have a lot of documentation. We have to try to figure out how to use them on our own. They have good documentation for their own products and because of that, we have details to easily use their product as they have a guide. There is no documentation on the plugin site. They need more documentation for the plugins.

Besides that, there's nothing more that I would add as the product covers my current needs. Maybe I would like a lower price. That is maybe a problem they could fix.

We have absolutely no problem with the stability of the solution. I have no problem with the system or the setup. I want to do more to master the system and harness its capability, but that is my limitation.

Technical support is very good but is very expensive. It is becoming more and more expensive just like the upgrade. The incredibly high prices are a very bad move on their part. I know everything is got to go up but this seems too much at a time. They also have some requirements for the support licensing that is very complicated. You have to have a password and you pay for a limited number of calls. For the price they are selling it, It should be okay to call them anytime.

The setup was very straightforward. We did not have to create a complicated strategy. We just installed the server and add the devices that were most urgent for me to monitor. I just added the devices and it was as simple as that.

We implemented it on our own in a very short period of time.

The license and support are very expensive. You pay separately for each and the licensing is a little complicated. With a company like Cisco which may be expensive, the support is included. This product costs more than even Cisco. The support is not as easy to contact.

It is hard not to consider other solutions now because of the advice of other CIOs and their experience with open source products that save them a lot of money. It may not always save time because they can be more difficult to use. That can be a trade-off.

The price of the licensing is very high, even for a big company. There are good open source products in the market that we could use for free and other companies I know are using them because of the price. Mostly because of the price of the product and the cost of tech support, I would rate this an eight out of ten. The product itself is very good.

We use this solution for monitoring the status of our hard drives, as well as bandwidth utilization. Essentially, we monitor all of the necessary statuses for our servers.

This solution is very good for monitoring infrastructure. It is simply to use, and you can receive notifications by email.

This solution would be improved with the inclusion of additional services. Monitoring streaming services is an example of something that is not currently supported, so in order to handle this, I would have to write a script. Scripts like this should be included in the next version of the solution.

I would like to see support for notification via SMS. 

The solution is very stable, although sometimes we have had problems with the database in cases where we had a large number of roles and services. There have been cases of database corruption that had to be repaired.

Scalability is very good, and I have no problem with it. The configuration is such that you can add hosts or monitoring services very easily.

We have four security administrators who use this system.

I have not needed to contact technical support. There are webinars and other information available that I have made use of. If you have a problem then you can copy and paste the error into a search engine and find the solution easily.

I have used other solutions from vendors such as McAfee, but Nagios XI is the best solution when compared with others.

I feel that the initial setup is difficult for a beginner. You must be skilled at using the Linux operating system to install and start up the solution.

I performed the installation myself, learning about it from a webinar that was available online.

I am in the process of testing a large number of solutions, and this is the best one.

This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company. It is also very stable and you can monitor a large number of services with no problem. You can also create many users and have them receive notification by email. It's very good.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

We are using Nagios XI for system-level monitoring. For example, hardware and memory storage monitoring. Additionally, we use the solution for built-in operating systems and database services, such as Postgres and MySQL, and some custom services that we use a custom script to fetch the data and feed the Nagios XI for alerts and notifications.

The most valuable features of Nagios XI are you can customize it based on your use case and requirements. It is flexible and easy to integrate with our systems. You can customize the solution by adding additional features using code.

I have been using Nagios XI for approximately two years.

Nagios XI is stable.

The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do.

We have approximately 12 system engineers and system administrators using the solution.

The support from Nagios XI is good and the response time is good. However, it can take some time to reach the right agent to support the problem. Overall the support is good.

Nagios XI is very easy to install in our PE plugins to start monitoring the servers.

Our team maintains Nagios XI in-house.

I would recommend this tool to others.

I rate Nagios XI a seven out of ten.

I mainly use Nagios XI for critical UN, for example, if the CPU usage is very high.

It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up.

I've been using Nagios XI for around five years.

Nagios XI is stable.

Nagios XI isn't really good for scaling, in my experience.

The initial setup is very complex, as there's no helpful manual and there are a lot of custom settings you have to learn.

Learning to use Nagios XI is quite time-consuming, so you need patience to get the best out of it. I would rate Nagios XI six out of ten.

We are planning to use this solution for network server monitoring. We have had training for deployment on our end, but it is not yet in production use.

The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes.

I think that the process of installing this solution can be improved because it is quite hectic.

The interface could be more user-friendly.

I think that stability is quite good. 

We are still in the pre-production stage and have only two IT administrators using the solution. There will be six users once it moves to production.

We have not been in contact with technical support.

We are currently using Zabbix.

The installation of this solution is a bit complex, and it requires that you are running it fully.

One of the issues that we experienced was getting the source to a computer where we could deploy it. That took some time.

We are handling the implementation in-house. There are two of us who took care of the pre-production deployment and will continue with the implementation.

We are using the free version of this solution.

We are testing out this solution in addition to Zabbix.

We will soon be moving this solution into production. However, it is a bit complex and difficult for a first-time user.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

For monitoring HFC network from the headend to end-of-line, mainly power supplies (transponders).

Integrating events and performance data between multi-vendor network elements and management systems.

All of them, but mainly: 

• Highly-efficient server performance monitoring engine
• Configuration wizards
• Infrastructure management
• Configuration snapshot.

• Developing a tool for KPIs and KQIs
• WebUI should be improved (visual aspect) and should incorporate non-relational databases.