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Nagios XI vs OptiView XG [EOL] comparison

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Nagios XI
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83% willing to recommend
OptiView XG [EOL]
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    89% willing to recommend
     

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    Categories and Ranking

    Nagios XI
    Average Rating
    8.0
    Reviews Sentiment
    6.8
    Number of Reviews
    58
    Ranking in other categories
    Network Monitoring Software (16th), Server Monitoring (7th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (11th), Cloud Monitoring Software (19th)
    OptiView XG [EOL]
    Average Rating
    8.6
    Number of Reviews
    38
    Ranking in other categories
    No ranking in other categories
     

    Featured Reviews

    Emmanuel Appiah Boateng - PeerSpot reviewer
    Emmanuel Appiah Boateng
    Network and Security Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
    Simplifies setup and requires user interface enhancement
    Nagios XI is easy to install, which sets it apart from other open-source solutions I've tried. Typically, setting up a monitoring system on Linux involves cloning files from GitHub, building it, and installing many dependencies, but with Nagios XI, it wasn't like that. Nagios XI simplifies our setup and reduces the time spent configuring monitoring tools.
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    Mark_Walker
    President at Bitwise Micro
    A valuable, impressive, and portable product that saves time and has great scalability and stability
    It just saves time. We have run into situations where contractors come in, and they plug in a WiFi device that is handing out DHCP addresses, which affects the rest of the network. To be able to quickly identify from where the problem is originating, you need a network tool that can identify the device that is doing this. It just brings into clear focus the exact issue when there is a problem or outage. When there is a crisis and you've several people wanting to know an estimate of when things are going to be back up and running again, you need to have answers. I have been at places that didn't have a tool like that. I know one place that had an outage for almost a week, and it was craziness. It turned out to be just a bad cable. That's all it was. They were having trouble with their email server, which was an on-premise email server, but emails were taking six hours to appear. The whole problem was because of a bad network cable. When I plugged in the Fluke analyzer, it analyzed and told me immediately that there were transmission errors on this one port from one switch. It told me this within 10 minutes. It is an incredible product.
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    Pros

    "The alerting system is very effective."
    "The technical support is good."
    "If you are a mid-sied company with an eye on expansion, this solution is very good."
    "Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature."
    "Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want."
    "The ROI is very good."
    "The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system."
    "Nagios is an open source monitoring tool for monitoring network services, with easy installation, a user-friendly and configurable interface, and the ability to monitor disk space, CPU utilization, memory usage, host availability, NFS availability and many other things, making it widely used in IT markets."
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    "Basically, what OptiView XG allowed us to do is, when someone says, "Hey, there's a problem, we're experiencing slow latency in a site", we put it on both ends and we look at the traffic going between both ends and see where the latency lies."
    "OptiView XG helps us troubleshoot problems faster than we would normally be able to."
    "We used different solutions, such as Wireshark, but they had limitations, and this brought everything to one solution."
    "I think it cuts down the time to resolution drastically for an environment that would not have the ability to do these packet captures."
    "We use it for all of our predictive Wi-Fi designs, and we get standards reports so we're able to do more of the designs more quickly and more consistently."
    "We switched to OptiView to be a little bit more flexible."
    "The pre-site survey and the AirMagnet site survey help my company in pre-sales and post-sales."
    "It allows us to be able to troubleshoot, predominantly in the field, with the tools that we would normally have in the lab."
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    Cons

    "The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
    "As it is open-source, it is not user-friendly. Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
    "The installation can get very difficult depending on what Linux flavour you are using."
    "We're still experiencing stability issues with regards to collecting performance graphs."
    "We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."
    "Implementation on Windows was painful."
    "I think that the community needs to concentrate development to get a standard GUI (Adagios is a side project) and gives the user a better notification system."
    "WebUI should be improved (visual aspect) and should incorporate non-relational databases."
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    "It's bulky; it's a big tablet. The physical dimensions need to change a little bit; it needs to be more portable."
    "Maybe the licensing could come down; the price could come down a little bit, that would be kind of nice. I think it's a little bit expensive, but as far as functionality goes, I'm not too sure about any room for improvement; I'm not the one that uses it every day."
    "With the cost it's hard to justify having more than one in our school."
    "Its price can be improved. Their support can also be improved a little bit. In terms of features, it did everything I wanted it to do. With more features, I would have to start installing network agents or something else, and I don't want to have to install anything. This was the value for me about this device."
    "We use the tablet version, and I'd like it to have a longer battery."
    "The licensing cost needs to improve since it is very expensive, especially the licensing and maintenance costs."
    "Initial setup was complex."
    "Its price was a bit excessive. The device that I had died; it is under warranty, and they want $20,000 for another one, so I am trying to find an alternate solution."
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    Pricing and Cost Advice

    "You can grow into the higher-priced scale as they learn how to utilize the features for Nagios XI."
    "It is good to contact experts for advice about what is the best solution for your specific infrastructure and enterprise."
    "We are using the free version of this solution."
    "Nagios XI is an expensive solution."
    "This solution is very expensive, at approximately $5,000 USD when I purchased it, which is why I haven't upgraded my version in several years."
    "Nagios XI is open source."
    "Licensing costs are reasonable."
    "For the cost of the commercial product and support, and taking into account the open source characteristics of it, I believe it is difficult to a better value."
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    "Its price was a bit excessive. The device that I had died. It is under warranty, and they want $20,000 for another one. I just don't want to spend that kind of money, so I'm trying to find an alternate solution. They have annual maintenance on it, which probably was 10% a year, so it all starts to add up."
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    Comparison Review

    it_user174738 - PeerSpot reviewer
    it_user174738
    IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
    May 31, 2015
    Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor
    I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…
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    Top Industries

    By visitors reading reviews
    Comms Service Provider
    11%
    Outsourcing Company
    9%
    Financial Services Firm
    8%
    Manufacturing Company
    8%
    Outsourcing Company
    19%
    Construction Company
    12%
    Financial Services Firm
    7%
    Manufacturing Company
    7%
     

    Company Size

    By reviewers
    Large Enterprise
    Midsize Enterprise
    Small Business
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business22
    Midsize Enterprise17
    Large Enterprise21
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business7
    Midsize Enterprise8
    Large Enterprise26
     

    Questions from the Community

    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios XI?
    The pricing for the Nagios XI product is good and better than other solutions. I would give it a four or five.
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    What needs improvement with Nagios XI?
    The user interface needs improvement. Many tools have poor user interfaces, making them hard to manage and navigate.
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    What is your primary use case for Nagios XI?
    I normally use Nagios XI for our servers. It's not particularly used for network equipment, however, I use it for monitoring our server performance, including CPU, memory, data, and services runnin...
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    Overview

    Nagios XI offers powerful monitoring with customizable scripts and extensive plugin support, making it ideal for those overseeing IT services and infrastructure. It features an intuitive dashboard, real-time alerts, and comprehensive device support, ensuring flexible and scalable network monitoring.

    Nagios XI stands out due to its robust monitoring capabilities, emphasizing flexibility and vast plugin support for custom scripts and service monitoring. Users value its intuitive dashboard for real-time alerts and device compatibility, which simplifies installation and enhances scalability and network visualization. Its open-source foundation assures performance and stability, while a setup wizard aids initial configuration. Despite its strengths, Nagios XI could benefit from a more user-friendly interface, enhanced installation processes, better network map customization, improved cloud integration, and alerting capabilities. Users often face hurdles with its scalability, configuration management, and reporting flexibility, and enterprise clients desire improved dashboards, clustering support, and AI integration.

    What are some key features of Nagios XI?
    • Monitoring Capabilities: Offers comprehensive monitoring for networks, servers, and IT services.
    • Plugin Support: Supports a wide range of plugins, enabling custom script creation for diverse monitoring needs.
    • Intuitive Dashboard: Provides real-time alerts and a user-friendly display.
    • Scalability: Supports growth with robust scalability and network visualization capabilities.
    • Open-Source Performance: Benefits from an open-source framework, ensuring performance and stability.
    What are the potential benefits and ROI?
    • Comprehensive Monitoring: Enables thorough oversight of IT services and infrastructure.
    • Customizability: Allows for tailored solutions via plugins and scripts.
    • Real-Time Alerts: Provides immediate notification of system issues.
    • Ease of Installation: Simplified processes through the setup wizard.
    • Scalable Solutions: Adapts to growing organizational needs, enhancing long-term use and support.

    Nagios XI is widely used in monitoring network servers, infrastructure environments, and IT services. Organizations rely on Nagios XI for comprehensive monitoring of hardware, memory storage, CPUs, databases, services, and applications. It's frequently implemented to manage multiple servers, routers, switches, modems, and power supplies, and integrates with virtual and cloud servers. By supporting custom scripts and data collection, it allows for effective alerts and notifications for network and equipment statuses across various sectors.

    Nagios

    OptiView XG is the first network analysis tablet designed specifically for the network engineer. It combines critical functions necessary to automate root-cause analysis of both wired and wireless network performance issues – whether network or application related to reduce time for problem identification. OptiView XG supports repeatable, effective troubleshooting – whether pre- or post-deployment.

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    Sample Customers

    Nagios has over one million users globally, including AOL, DHL, McAfee, MCI, MTV, Yahoo!, Universal, Toshiba, Sony, Siemens, and JPMorgan Chase.
    XG is used in all industries. Example customers include: Republic National Distributing Company, Titelive, CitiGroup, Los Angeles Unified School District, Saudi German Hospital, DeKalb County Schools, Valdosta State University, The Everett Clinic, Bio-Reference, Miami-Dade Library, Mitel, Borsa Istanbul, Cimarex, Air National Guard Lowndes County, High Point City, Carrollton City Schools, Kern County, Pruitt Communications and Bosch Group.
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