We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Though I downplayed the administrative NCC GUI, this is by far the strongest aspect of the Nagios XI product."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"The features I've found the most useful are the plug-ins, the fact that you can connect almost everything to it. That's very useful."
"Nagios XI helps us monitor the bandwidth of the internet connection, HTTP, DNS, active directory services, and exchange data availability. We have multiple servers to monitor databases, availability of servers, and ping."
"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."
"Nagios allows us to configure any device so that we can send pager alerts when people don't have access to emails. It also allows us to schedule downtime and maintenance."
"It can monitor, get the data, and then report on the data."
"The most valuable feature in this solution is the log searching."
"The product retains a lot of log data for subsequent analysis."
"The alerts are the most valuable feature."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to get information about all of the security measurements in my environment."
"Great monitoring of network devices."
"The ability to create custom dashboards is one of the best features and that's typically why most people deploy Splunk. Users can create dashboards for just about anything."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more."
"It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up."
"The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors."
"The way Nagios displays information isn't easy for a new user to understand. It's not intuitive enough. You need to read some tutorials or be trained to understand what it's displaying. Also, I think it needs more features to improve network visibility because there are some things you can't detect."
"Nagios XI can improve network and hardware monitoring, these parameters should be simplified to allow usage for monitoring. Additionally, if there was automatic reporting it would be helpful."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns."
"It does not have a user-friendly interface and it is difficult to use."
"The price has room for improvement."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers."
"We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features."
"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."
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Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 13th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 24 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2. 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 Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Amazon CloudWatch, Cisco Intersight, ITRS Geneos and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence). See our Nagios XI vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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