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Use Nagios Fusion to gain insight into the health of the organization's entire network through a centralized view of your monitoring infrastructure.
Provider
Nagios Enterprises
Located In
United States
Foundation
2007
Open API
Yes
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Training
Webinars, Documentation, Videos, Live Online
Support
FAQs/Forum, Chat, Knowledge Base
Network Administrators, Sysadmins
Content Source: Nagios XI
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Nagios XI Reviews
Pros
Does it's job of performing good monitoring for network devices specially. Helpful in quick identification of issues and bottlenecks and help reduce MTTR.
I really like the monitoring capabilities per network resources and hosts, the customization we can do we it is also amazing, and it is bring the product to higher levels along with it’s east of use.
The best benefit is the ability to create a monitor in a GUI rather than a command line.
Nice graphs and reports. Dashboard help to keep an eye on important thing that require attention.
Cons
The GUI doesn't seem to be most updated and some of the features are hard to find (UX issue).
If there is no wizard to monitor a host or service, it requires deep knowledge to configure the system.
Consistent alerting of network outages and potential server and application problems.
Sometimes but a bit when you turn off the system and again turn on the database crashes and can cause nagios unstable.
Most Recent Video User Review for Nagios XI
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Old Monitoring solution
Grant W.
"Simple and Outbox IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tool"
Pros: Nagios provide a centralized view of system status and provide alerts when issue arise over mail and sms.It supports multiple plugins and extensions with the help of plugins we can monitor server, application, databases, network devices and store their trends. It can also escalate alerts to multiple users or groups based on specific criteria.
Cons: Not facing any issue yet,easy to use and maintain.
"Nagios XI Basic - One stop solution for monitoring"
Overall: Nagios XI was easy to setup (from the tools we tested), although it has many plugins you can always and easily create your own plugin (anything that is measurable), it has good alerting system when it comes to emails, seems like the GUI/UX could have been more modern but overall experience is very good.
Pros: I really liked the easy setup and the fact that it's a one stop solution with the amount of available plugins
Cons: For certain configuration you need to read the manual doesn't seem to be trivial titles. Also the wizards have good defaults but there should be an easier way for customization
"The "horse and buggy" of monitoring"
Overall: Nagios XI is like a horse and buggy: you use it when you'd like a taste of what the old world used to be like. Does it work? Yes, in the same way that a horse and buggy will get you wherever you'd like to go. But if you want to get somewhere in an efficient manner, and you don't want to deal with the tool taking a huge crap every once in a while, use a more modern, metric-based system like Prometheus.
Pros: People love Nagios because it "just works" with its check scripts, and Nagios XI adds an actually usable UX on top of that basic experience. It includes a small number of "wizards" that can help set up common monitoring configurations.
Cons: The Nagios monitoring agents aren't commercially supported, so good luck getting any features changed on those. You need to handle assembling a collection of test scripts, distributing them, and installing their dependencies on all managed nodes. The Nagios model, which mainly focuses on "mutable" infrastructure versus "immutable" infrastructure (Docker containers) is outdated in today's world.
"Monitoring Large scale Network at a glance."
Overall: our large scale network and different network devices we are unable to monitor and resolve network based problems timely and devices are increase time by time. due to avoid network failure and need notifications of downtime we study and installed Nagios XI and other solution in our Infrastructure.
Pros: Open source and easy to configure easy to customized Notification/Alert in case of any failure. work on SNMP Protocol free add-ons to download and develop your customization
Cons: License cost is very high Interface is create confusing ( in Free Version ) Issue in monitoring in network throughput (bandwidth user wise ) Only monitoring tool , configuration are not allowed.
"Excellent Product "
Overall: Good product and value for money. ROI from day one.
Pros: Value for money, easily availablity of pluggins and more stable product
Cons: Improved UI and more user friendly console
