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."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"Key features include the GUI interface, its notification capabilities, and the real-time reporting."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"Alert calls occur anytime a service goes down or a matrix is difficult and that helps us to quickly restore service and transfer work."
"What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"We use the product to monitor server applications."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"It is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"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."
"Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier."
"The tool needs to improve the integrations."
"It is a bit slow due to latency."
"The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
"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."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
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Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th 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 Zabbix, Nagios XI, Icinga and Centreon, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Nagios Core vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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