We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring 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."Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."
"It is a great resource for us because we have so many different data sources and to be able to aggregate that and put it through a concise dashboard or an alert really helps."
"Great monitoring of network devices."
"The alerts are the most valuable feature."
"The features I have found most valuable are log searching and log analytics, both of which are quick features."
"The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs."
"The most valuable feature in this solution is the log searching."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"The PNP4Nagios plugin not working easily with XI is an issue for me, because some open source monitoring plugins do not work out of the box. But in the end, you learn to live with it."
"The product's stability could be even better."
"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."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."
"I would like to see an improvement and some innovation in the customer interface."
"The deployment can be quite complex."
"It's a bit difficult to use. It takes some time to get into it and to get it to do what you would like it to do. It is not straightforward to use it."
"A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"They need more EDR functionalities."
"There is a lot of room for improvement with the automation."
"The implementation can be more user-friendly."
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Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 15th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 24 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2. 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 Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Amazon CloudWatch, Cisco Intersight, ITRS Geneos and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence). See our Nagios XI vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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