We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and WhatsUp Gold 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."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"The solution is quite efficient."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."
"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"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."
"Our customers like that Nagios Core is an open source solution. It can be customized to our customers' specific needs."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"The core version is no match for the XI version."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
"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."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
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Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 45th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Nagios Core is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, Icinga and Centreon, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Nagios Core vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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