We performed a comparison between Nagios XI, SCOM, and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The solution is pretty stable."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"Though I downplayed the administrative NCC GUI, this is by far the strongest aspect of the Nagios XI product."
"Nagios XI is a simple monitoring tool with performance management."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"The stability has been great."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth."
"What the network team found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it helps them to troubleshoot or analyze the issue. For example, traffic that comes from our location: India, goes to the US, so for the network team to analyze where the traffic comes from and where it is directed, and whether the packets are being dropped, they use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. The network team also likes that through the solution, they can analyze the complete traffic utilization and how they're going to use it. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is user-friendly. The team finds it comfortable to use."
"What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature."
"What my organization likes best about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its easy deployment. It's also well-integrated in terms of monitoring because my organization also uses a SolarWinds solution for monitoring. You can connect SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer directly to that monitoring tool to get information. My organization also finds the default graphs that appear before the configuration in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer very useful."
"The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth."
"SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do."
"The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more."
"I would like a much easier GUI so that I can delete events and logs, which will free up a lot of space."
"I would like to be able to extend it to all of our data centers, whether they are in the cloud or not. It would be helpful if I could connect everywhere."
"The way Nagios displays information isn't easy for a new user to understand. It's not intuitive enough. You need to read some tutorials or be trained to understand what it's displaying. Also, I think it needs more features to improve network visibility because there are some things you can't detect."
"It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up."
"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 interface could be more user-friendly."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"As people always complain about the pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, it's an area for improvement in the solution. People find it expensive. Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is support, as it could be better."
"What needs improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is performance because sometimes, my team struggles too much for the solution to perform correctly for a specific deployment in my organization. Having a more detailed view in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is another area for improvement, but that's more part of the protocol than the actual solution."
"NTA's documentation for the implementation phase needs some enhancement."
"This solution does not do a very good job when I am trying to look deeper into my internal network, in particular with respect to individual ports."
"This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself."
"The solution needs better log management and log coordination with tools."
"It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts."
"It can be complex to set up and configure."
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