We performed a comparison between Nagios XI 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."This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"The installation is no problem. I've installed Nagios several times."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"Nagios XI is a simple monitoring tool with performance management."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"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."
"It's easy to understand."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"Tickets by e-mail, with actions by hastag."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"The product's stability could be even better."
"The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"I would like a much easier GUI so that I can delete events and logs, which will free up a lot of space."
"The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors."
"We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."
"It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
"The GUI must be improved."
"I would like to see more information when drilling down into access permissions, assignments management, or tagging. When I click a note or a device, I should be able to see more details about the router and modem. For example, I want to see the version, downtime, availability, latency, etc. I should have easy access to everything about our assets at a glance."
"It would be nice to have remote access to the solution via a tablet. They also need remote control from a PC. Right now, to complete the technical support process, you have to have a tool to access the PC, and check the problems."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"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."
"With Spiceworks, like, when I open the websites, I have to Zoom in. I need to zoom in on those websites sometimes because it makes it horrible to use."
Nagios XI is ranked 7th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 46th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. 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 Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Icinga and Wireshark, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. See our Nagios XI vs. Spiceworks report.
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