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Nagios Core

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What is Nagios Core?

Nagios provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components. Multiple APIs and community-build add-ons enable integration and monitoring with in-house and third-party applications for optimized scaling.

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Old reliable solution

Incentivized
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Nagios Core to monitor servers and applications for our clients. We also use it to monitor our and our customers' infrastructure for which we are contractually responsible. Customer support teams use Nagios Core to find and resolve problems with servers and applications which they support.

Pros

  • OS resources monitoring
  • Database monitoring
  • Web site monitoring

Cons

  • Application performance monitoring
  • Time series
  • User interfsce

Return on Investment

  • Nagios Core can be offered as cheap basic monitoring solution for customers
  • No cost for licenses
  • Small hardware requirements
  • No specific software knowledge required
  • Friendly for OS admins

Alternatives Considered

ScienceLogic SL1, Zabbix and IBM Netcool Operations Insights

Other Software Used

ScienceLogic SL1, Tivoli Monitoring (legacy), Zabbix

anything or everything just monitor in Nagios Core

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To monitor the critical business application services.
get better control over the servers.
Basically, Nagios Core helps us to act quickly and to reduce the impact of any business urgencies by giving the notifications in time with proper information's. Scope is to gain total governance and unattended monitor of servers and services with different parameters defined.

Pros

  • Notification
  • cron job check
  • server monitor
  • service monitor

Cons

  • May be some more plugins for different types service monitor
  • automation to configure the services
  • more documentation help support

Return on Investment

  • great opensource tool
  • time to setup is really less
  • very robust and reliable

Alternatives Considered

Prometheus and Grafana

Other Software Used

Grafana, Prometheus, GitLab, Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Nagios [Core]: Best Open Source Monitoring Tool

Pavan MehareView profile
Linux Administrator in Information Technology at Amdocs (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Network analysis
  • Effective data collection
  • Easy implementation

Cons

  • Web UI should be better while navigating
  • Improve security
  • Need to extend support and availability

Most Important Features

  • Network analysis
  • Open source
  • Calculated data

Return on Investment

  • Open source is helpful.
  • We have better managed downtime due to calculated data.
  • No negative impacts.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

Other Software Used

Amazon RDS on VMware, Chef Infra, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Industry standard monitoring

Incentivized
Chris SaenzView profile
Lead System Engineer in Information Technology at Azusa Pacific University (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Monitors a variety of standard metrics.
  • Uses standard protocols (SNMP).

Cons

  • Managing monitor plugins could be more centralized and consistent.
  • Configuration is not very user-friendly.

Return on Investment

  • It has allowed IT support staff to ensure uptime of our services.
  • It has given IT staff insight into application functionality.

Alternatives Considered

Centreon

Other Software Used

Centreon, Pure Storage FlashArray, vSphere, Ansible

Nagios Core - sit back and monitor at ease!

Incentivized
D. Robert HamiltonView profile
IT Senior Client Services Engineer in Information Technology at DTE Energy (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Host-level monitoring.
  • Log monitoring.

Cons

  • Dashboarding.
  • Color schemes.

Return on Investment

  • Seems cheap.
  • Lite weight user design.

Alternatives Considered

Dynatrace

Other Software Used

Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM

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