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Nagios XI

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What is Nagios XI?

Nagios 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.…

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Standard

$1995

Cloud
Per Instance

Enterprise

$3495

Cloud
Per Instance

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Nagios XI?

Nagios 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 large-scale configuration, forecasting, and scheduled reporting. Each license includes twelve months of maintenance (upgrade entitlements) and email support.

Nagios XI Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Nagios XI is a versatile monitoring tool that has proven effective in a variety of use cases. Users have found it invaluable for monitoring the availability of devices and services, ensuring high availability and scalability in infrastructure monitoring. With its quick alerts for downtime machines and network outages, Nagios XI simplifies network monitoring and provides timely notifications for any issues that may arise.

Additionally, Nagios XI is relied upon for health checks of ports and the monitoring of instances. Despite some users' suggestions for more plugins and a modern GUI/UX, Nagios XI continues to be a critical and reliable part of many organizations. The software's continuous improvement through future updates introduces great features, enhancing its usefulness for managing and monitoring the entire IT infrastructure of an organization.

Furthermore, Nagios XI saves time by efficiently monitoring devices and providing quick access to switches and other network components. Its comprehensive infrastructure monitoring capabilities, coupled with its quick response and stability in network connectivity, make it highly recommended for proactive troubleshooting, maintaining network uptime, and generating accurate live data reports. Nagios XI also aids in end-to-end live monitoring of fiber ring topology, facilitating efficient management of networks across different locations.

Moreover, Nagios XI has been adopted by various users to monitor servers' performance, disk usage, memory utilization, CPU utilization, network devices such as switches and routers, and end-to-end connectivity. Its simplicity and user-friendliness make it accessible even for beginners while offering powerful functionality to experienced users. Though initial setup and configuration may require some manual effort, users have found that it becomes less complicated with experience.

Overall, Nagios XI's reliability, cost-effectiveness, flexibility in configuration preferences, and ability to provide real-time monitoring and fast alerts have made it an essential tool in maintaining network health, solving issues promptly, impressing management with results, enhancing product quality through automation monitoring, aiding in capacity planning with scheduled managed reports, ensuring quick recovery from downtime, and keeping operations running smoothly for businesses operating around the clock.

Users recommend Nagios for its effectiveness in monitoring network infrastructure. It is considered a good tool for network administrators, IT operations, and system administration. Reviewers highlight its cost-effectiveness and ease of learning and implementation. Furthermore, Nagios is recommended for monitoring large-scale data centers, fiber connectivity, and device monitoring. Users also suggest using Nagvis for proper network monitoring. Additionally, Nagios XI is praised as a smart monitoring tool for network monitoring, particularly for live monitoring and enterprise device monitoring. Finally, Nagios is regarded as the best option for proactive network monitoring in large infrastructure networks. It is also seen as well-suited for smaller environments or those with limited budgets for expensive monitoring applications. Lastly, users suggest trying the free version of Nagios before purchasing the full version.

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Monitoring Master Nagios XI for infrastructure

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 06, 2025
SL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nagios XI
4 years of experience
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, we have integrated this tool with PagerDuty to alert us in needed based on the priority.
  • System Health check monitoring
  • Tracking system stats for period of time
  • Provides good graphs for the analysis purpose
  • Can manage any number of servers at a time without any glitch
  • Installation and Maintenace is pretty simple and manageable
Cons
  • From Nagios XI UI we can get some more features for heap and thread dump analysis based on collected gc logs
  • UI can make bit simpler as current one looks clumpsy.
  • Custom configuration takes bit while comparatively
  • Bandwidth monitoring is not that accurate need some improvement
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.
  • It made positive impact on business due to its on time monitoring capacity and with that we easily find the affected systems in advance before they damage the business.
  • From Business side also clients use this tool for there business load analysis and also it helps them in forecasting the size of VMs
  • It has free tier as well so for small scale applications this helps a lot in finance as well.
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.
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 mostly restricted to containers based. Others are paid versions.
30
We use Nagios XI mainly for monitoring our cloud hosted services and keep us alerted when any of the server hits threshold. 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 all the parameters
20
People with basic understanding of IT terms can easily support this product . Installation and configuration is easy no pre-skills required.
  • Servers health monitoring
  • Graph and Performance
  • On time monitoring
  • scalability, and detailed reporting
  • scalability, and detailed reporting
  • Active Monitoring
  • Performance tuning
  • For cloud servers monitoring
  • In house servers monitoring
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
Yes
IBM Tivoli monitoring, Comparatively Nagios XI is having more than features than this.
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
  • Other
We can manage Cloud solutions and do scalability and easily integrate with other systems.
Nothing to do again, Nagios XI is doing good
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
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
Since we work in product based we did not much with change management it was a direct implementation, so I am not sure on this much.
  • Installation of Nagios XI agents on all systems
  • Compatibility to other version of OD
  • Multiple servers installation
  • No Training
Yea without training we can learn this
By considering the usage of the product it has all required features which supports the product and meet the customers expectations.
Nothing much but it works best on both cloud environments and inhouse environments as well so it will be good if we have latest OS systems to avoid and older OS vulnerabilities.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
Yes - we have added extensive custom code
Yes We have added our inhouse tool called GMS to this one and added all our required scripts and alerts as per the product need to this Nagios XI to support our application
Nothing major
We contacted support for Nagios XI and everytime it was superfast and always got solution for raised issues
we did not purchased premium support because whatever base edition we able to achieve the goal so.
No
Once we were into situation that none of the alerts were generated for 4 hours in our tool due to some manual error, later Nagios XI team helped to fix the issue and that was very quick
  • Servers Monitoring
  • Alerts management, performance tuning
  • Graphs for analysis
  • Query alerts are not that feasible to add here
  • integration with 3rd party systems
  • Initial setup is bit complex
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
Never seen any such outages with Nagios XI till day it was available all the time working as expected
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
We have integrated Nagios XI with our inhouse tool called GMS and also integrated with pagerduty to alert us with calls when any threshold hits so these things are working as expected and not given any major troubles.
  • Pagerduty
  • GMS
I would say it was one time activity initially we worked with customer support team once for initial setup later it didn't give any errors also its not that complex to integrate its doable
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
  • Javascript widgets
  • ETL tools
Integration with Nagios XI is not that complex they have made it easier, and we can customise this tool as we need so thats a very good option
Since I was more into technical side not much involved during sales time but I heard the feedback that they were very responsive and its was good deal to get so overall good experience.
Post sales also they same as earlier so not much difference
Majorly dedicated customer support for us.
Costing/pricing
Free upgrades for first 6 months
Look for all available options with them and utilize the toll deeply.
No
  • New features
  • Avoided multiple vulnerabilities
  • bugs were fixed and performce improved
  • Performance and bug free
  • More features
  • More Graphs for analysing data
No
No

Nagios with light weight sensors

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 15, 2021
MH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nagios XI
3 years of experience
Nagios XI is being used as a network, server, and database monitoring tool in the Information Technology Department. SMTP settings are available and whenever the server will be down, it will generate an email and inform the server administrator.
  • Network monitoring.
  • Database monitoring.
  • Windows Server monitoring.
  • Cluster Service monitoring.
Cons
  • Graphical user interface must be enhanced.
  • More monitoring agents must be included.
Nagios is best suited in an large organization where it is production 24/7, but in SME (small/medium enterprise) you have to pay a lot to the administrator. Instead use some graphical and easy to use tool like IDERA.
  • Minimize downtime.
  • Improved RTO.
  • Improved RPO.
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.

Nagios XI -- The Open-Source Enterprise monitoring solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 09, 2019
EZ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nagios XI
6 years of experience
Nagios XI is helping us to do the monitoring completely automatic. The advance dashboard and admin dashboard are designed so well and are easy to configure as per each user's need. The scheduled managed report help in scaling up the capacity planning of the infrastructure. Nagios XI is providing the complete and comprehensive IT infrastructure monitoring many of our projects, and helps us to deliver the project in faster and more efficient ways.
  • Nagios XI has an exclusive feature of bulk modification of attributes that help in monitoring the same set on monitoring modules on a newly set up environment.
  • It allows you to monitor many network devices, such as switches, routers, servers, and is helping to monitor network performance and track traffic on the network interface.
  • The audit trails feature allows us to scrutinize the modification or setup.
Cons
  • The mobile interface is newly developed and needs more development. It should provide more options for the audit log and add more detail for the configuration rollback options.
  • The scheduled report should be included in standard edition.
  • Master Node is configurable on LINUX platform only. We had to hire a Linux administrator
Nagios' ability to chart website ping values over any length of time helps when trying to correlate the data with other network components. Website ping and response times can be used in combination with other data as a great first step when determining whether or not connectivity and performance issues are limited to just the local network.
  • Reduction of at least 10% of false alarms.
  • Increased network traffic by 5%.
I like to be fixed rather than just dislike: it's not user-friendly with almost anything excluding a Windows Operating System. A Linux version, for example, is visibly backward. This does not seem to be a serious issue for most people, but it is still considered a disadvantage. As I do not like the way the dashboards are supposed to be designed, I think it should be easier and take less time. The initial price is reasonable, and for this reason we decided to buy it
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.

Back to the future with Nagios XI

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 23, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nagios XI
5 years of experience
For in-house infrastructure monitoring and application performance monitoring across the entire organization. Some 1000 hosts, 50+ Applications, various 3rd party integrations. We do both monitoring and logging, also using a single view Fusion product provided by Nagios. We have started using Nagios to collect and store detailed performance information about our infrastructure and ended up developing end-2-end monitoring solutions, talking back to Nagios XI via its API for alerting and reporting purposes.
  • 3rd party integrations via open API.
  • Extremely flexible and configurable long term storage of the very detailed performance information (years of per 1-5 min perf data numbers).
  • Small Nagios XI footprint (very efficient MySQL DB and flat files for perf data), making it powerful tool for thousands of checks and hundreds of reports.
  • Responsive support, willing to provide resolution outside the box and by various means possible.
Cons
  • 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.
Nagios XI is suitable for inexpensive and very detailed monitoring of the physical hosts and VMs. Both Windows and Linux. This would require configuring 2-3 ways of monitoring for the same set of hosts and some time spent to fine tune the configurations. It may also be used for SQL and Apache front-ends such as Tomcat, Glassfish, etc.
  • Very good ROI.
  • Good results as capacity mgmt tool.
  • Good results as application monitoring tool.
Nagios XI is better supported vs SolarWinds, needs less manual administration work vs Datadog and a lot less expensive for a long as you are willing to compromise on the look and some functionalities. Moreover, SolarWinds database design prevents one from storing any meaningful data for an extended period of time (creating averages of the averages of the averages), where Nagios could be set for keeping years of detailed information without large storage or the overutilized DB engine. In both Datadog and SolarWinds trials we could not get answers to many of our questions, configure working solutions out of the box by using the inline documentation. Nagios XI does not have limitations, offers such as AppOptics impose on the customers (making it very expensive and absolutely not a real life product). Overall, Nagios XI is a great tool, requiring a lot of R&D “yesterday” to make it beat all the competition on all fronts. That is assuming you have an extensive knowledge in the many areas of IT (thus knowing what should be monitored and how to interpret the data).
Only because I never give out 10s.
Nagios support goes above and beyond in helping with issues, workarounds, specific cases and requirements. Tracks customer implementation and history of the most important issues. Can’t complain (except that the team is small and quite probably overworked). Time to resolution could be much improved if only there were more folks to help around.
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