We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios XI is customization. We can customize based on our requirements. We can do modifications and implement a lot of scripts. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Nagios XI are you can customize it based on your use case and requirements. It is flexible and easy to integrate with our systems. You can customize the solution by adding additional features using code."
"You want to monitor a specific metric that nobody else has? You can do it even with the most basic of scripting skills, and you can always share it with the vast community of Nagios Exchange."
"The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"Nagios XI is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"The solution is easy to use and the Panorama feature is good. The software management or the malware blocking and some authentication management system are good."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"The analysis is very fast."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The PNP4Nagios plugin not working easily with XI is an issue for me, because some open source monitoring plugins do not work out of the box. But in the end, you learn to live with it."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"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."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and SCOM, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox.
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