We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"Other products are good but from the configuration point of view Nagios is really very lightweight. The price is really good in my opinion. Another important thing is that my Nagios engine still works with Dual core 8GB ram for the last 10 years."
"I like that it's very simple to install, easy to manage and deploy, and easy to use for monitoring."
"Key features include the GUI interface, its notification capabilities, and the real-time reporting."
"The most valuable feature depends on the project. It's great if you need to check to ensure a service is running 24/7. I can use the full solution for free, and it's flexible. If I need to add a dashboard, I can integrate it with Nagios. Cloud synchronization is wonderful."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is the ability to check the availability of the server for network connectivity. Additionally, the interface is good."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is a bit slow due to latency."
"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"There is room for improvement in the graphics."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"We're using the free version, which limits us in terms of the things that we can do. If we had the paid version, a lot of our issues would probably go away. For example, we can't isolate instances that are being built or updated with the production ones. When they're being built, on Nagios, they're showing in red. It'd be nice to be able to partition those off until they're all green, and then we can bring them into the environment. This is probably because we've got the free version and not the paid version. If we went for the paid version, it would probably allow us to do exactly what we want to or remove the restrictions that we have, but if we are able to isolate instances in the free version, it would make life much easier."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"The price could be improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Icinga, Centreon and OP5 Monitor, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Nagios Core vs. SCOM report.
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