We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and Spiceworks 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."Alert calls occur anytime a service goes down or a matrix is difficult and that helps us to quickly restore service and transfer work."
"Provides timely notifications."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"We use the product to monitor server applications."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."
"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."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"It shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know up front."
"It lets us know whether devices are getting out of date and tracked warranties. Spiceworks also gave me visibility in terms of what software was installed on each device and its status."
"Spiceworks' dashboard allows you to drill down to the notes, where I can take an inventory of the network and see the devices I need to monitor."
"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"The solution can find all asset details automatically, whether it's a Mac address, computer name, IP address, models, etc. It's very helpful."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"The solution is easy to use and easy to manage."
"Tickets by e-mail, with actions by hastag."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier."
"It would be nice if the company offered a sales or contract manager that was dedicated to our company so that we would have some sort of link to Nagios, and if we had issues or questions, we'd be able to contact them directly."
"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."
"The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"I would like to see more training videos."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"They've also tried to integrate it with social logins, like Twitter and LinkedIn, and that type of login authentication has no place in a corporate application."
"Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"The GUI must be improved."
"I would like the solution to allow for more direct interaction with computers. I can open tickets and I can see their status, but I can't interact directly with the computers themselves."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
Nagios Core is ranked 7th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 46 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 32nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while Spiceworks 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 Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Centreon, Icinga and New Relic, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and SolarWinds NPM. See our Nagios Core vs. Spiceworks report.
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