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    Grafana

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGrafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.

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    Nagios XI

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANagios XI is an Enterprise Server and Network Monitoring Software, built on Nagios Core and designed to comprehensive application, service, and network monitoring in a central solution. Nagios XI is available in two different editions: Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition provides users with additional functionality and includes features that are designed to aid in…

    $1,995

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    Pricing
    GrafanaNagios XI
    Editions & Modules
    Grafana Cloud - Pro
    $8
    per month up to 1 active user
    Grafana Cloud - Free
    Free
    10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
    Grafana Cloud - Advanced
    Volume Discounts
    custom data usage custom active users
    Grafana - Enterprise Stack
    Custom Pricing
    Standard
    $1995
    Per Instance
    Enterprise
    $3495
    Per Instance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GrafanaNagios XI
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GrafanaNagios XI
    Considered Both Products
    Grafana Labs
    No answer on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    Chose Nagios XI
    Comparatively Nagios XI is better I feel because we can use this for both on -premises and cloud platforms as well Also it works on both traditional applications servers like tomcat WebSphere and also containerized applications like Docker and Kubernetes where in others are …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    GrafanaNagios XI
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Grafana and Nagios XI
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Nagios XI
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    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Grafana and Nagios XI
    Feature
    Grafana
    6.8
    4 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Nagios XI
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    Drill-down analysis6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Grafana and Nagios XI
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Nagios XI
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    Publish to Web7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Grafana and Nagios XI
    Feature
    Grafana
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Nagios XI
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    GrafanaNagios XI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    8.0
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    GrafanaNagios XI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Grafana Labs
    Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
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    Nagios Enterprises
    If anyone looking for the monitoring system for the infrastructure this is the go-to tool which monitors all infrastructure related components from server health to Networking and update us with mails and can be easily integrated with multiple other tools as needed for example PagerDuty , Also this suits good both on premises and cloud environments as well. If we are managing complex environment this tool for monitoring is best one.
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    Pros
    Grafana Labs
    • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
    • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
    • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
    • Microservices monitoring
    • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Network monitoring.
    • Database monitoring.
    • Windows Server monitoring.
    • Cluster Service monitoring.
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    Cons
    Grafana Labs
    • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
    • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
    • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Robust, but visually old interface. Requires a lot of work to become presentable.
    • Small selection of dashlets to construct new views.
    • No MS Azure monitoring ability, nothing for “as service,” very limited Amazon cloud monitoring abilities.
    • Questionable price politics (could make it a lot less for developing markets to actually increase use of the product and R&D budgets).
    • No report designers nor the ability to create new reports. No changes in this area for years.
    • Overall lack of new developments, making this product more and more outdated.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    This tool has been has been of great use and learning , offering exceptional ease of use, scalability, and detailed reporting. It has a lot of customization options and proactive monitoring which have significantly improved our infrastructure management.It's UI & functions are good. Also has built in templates for various end points.It also provides graphical reports. With a Dashboard you can monitor easily
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    Usability
    Grafana Labs
    It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
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    Nagios Enterprises
    We
    are using Nagios XI in our organization primarily for monitoring all our
    application servers and databases, this is helping us in addressing all the
    infrastructure issues in advance by alerting us when it any server hits the
    threshold as per the initial parameter setup also it has free tier which helps for small scale applications monitoring to save some expenses.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    Never seen any such outages with Nagios XI till day it was available all the time working as expected
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    Performance
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    Performance wise it does its best job we monitor more than 500 Servers and we use this tool for Analysis also so never felt any lag
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    Support Rating
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    Nagios XI support has plans to offer the following features:
    • Access to knowledgeable IT professionals – including support staff and developers.
    • Access to customer-only tutorials, documentation, and content in the Nagios Library.
    • Access to customer-only boards on our support forum for expedited assistance.
    • Access to customer-only email support for fast, confidential assistance.
    • Discounts on future license purchases.
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    Implementation Rating
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    I have been participated in the few implementations, and I would say its bit complex when its come to initial setup once its set post that its easy to manage
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    Alternatives Considered
    Grafana Labs
    Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    Cost efficiency is the main reason which we opted [for] Nagios as we were previously using IDERA tool with comprehensive database monitoring solutions, but the slow performance we are getting while monitoring the instance of the database.
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    Scalability
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    We have installed Nagios XI for our monitoring system and with this we are managing around 600 servers in total and not seen any major issues with its scalability we can scale it as much as we require and also installed on various applications servers and working as expected
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    Return on Investment
    Grafana Labs
    • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
    • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
    • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Very good ROI.
    • Good results as capacity mgmt tool.
    • Good results as application monitoring tool.
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