We performed a comparison between BigPanda and Nagios XI 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."The program is very stable."
"The main thing that we like about BigPanda is the user interface."
"The solution is user-friendly and has good performance and certification."
"We have also made extensive use of the outbound integrations to ticketing systems (JIRA) and collaboration tools (Slack). The main driver for us has been getting all alerting into a single UI and enabling us to streamline our incident management process."
"The best of a bad lot was the error message deduping."
"Alert aggregation was the primary requirement. BigPanda pulls all this together into a single UI for us, allowing us to see related alerts grouped together into an incident, and enables us to easily create a JIRA ticket and Slack channel to manage an issue."
"One of the most valuable features of BigPanda is its user-friendly interface."
"BigPanda integrates well with other solutions, such as WatchGuard,"
"The solution is pretty stable."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"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."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"BigPanda could improve by syncing its threshold settings with Dynatrace to align with users' familiarity."
"The UI for this solution could be improved. It is very hard to find what you are looking for."
"BigPanda can improve the correlations. We didn't see any big value. It is still good at the same event deduplication, event processing, and ticket creation, but I was more looking at event analysis and event correlation. In that area, it is still no big difference between the other solutions on the market. All of them, are in the same immature stage."
"The observability can be enriched with regards to infrastructure and the application-integrated environment. The dashboard and reports could be improved."
"BigPanda attempts a little of everything and fails at most."
"Lacks sufficient dashboard features."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"We had to use a partner for the deployment."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
BigPanda is ranked 43rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 12 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews. BigPanda is rated 7.2, while Nagios XI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BigPanda writes "Offers comprehensive alert monitoring and a user-friendly interface but requires manual validation to provide accurate alerts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". BigPanda is most compared with ServiceNow, Moogsoft, PagerDuty Operations Cloud, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga. See our BigPanda vs. Nagios XI report.
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