We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"Nagios XI is a simple monitoring tool with performance management."
"The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"Nagios allows us to configure any device so that we can send pager alerts when people don't have access to emails. It also allows us to schedule downtime and maintenance."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"Identifying the problem statement is easy."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"We use the solution as a central monitoring tool. We use it to monitor every transaction that has a relation to the organization’s infrastructure."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"I adore the NTA module that provides deep details on ingress/egress traffic for any interface. With a few clicks, you can correlate who is accessing what and when, beside the bandwidth consuming applications/users."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
"The installation and monitoring need improvement."
"It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."
"They should incorporate more artificial intelligence. There should also be more predictive features."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve by having a cloud version. They have an observability platform but it still needs to be maintained by us."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"The major concern in the product revolves around application performance monitoring since end-to-end application monitoring is not possible with the tool."
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Nagios XI is ranked 5th in Server Monitoring with 54 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and SolarWinds NPM, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery. See our Nagios XI vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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