We performed a comparison between Instana Infrastructure Monitoring and Nagios XI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Zabbix, New Relic and others in Cloud Monitoring Software."The product's initial setup is easy."
"The features I've found the most useful are the plug-ins, the fact that you can connect almost everything to it. That's very useful."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"Though I downplayed the administrative NCC GUI, this is by far the strongest aspect of the Nagios XI product."
"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."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"The most valuable features of Nagios XI are you can customize it based on your use case and requirements. It is flexible and easy to integrate with our systems. You can customize the solution by adding additional features using code."
"The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
"The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do."
"I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it."
"The product's stability could be even better."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"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 is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 30th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 1 review while Nagios XI is ranked 10th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 54 reviews. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.0, while Nagios XI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring writes "A reasonably stable and scalable tool for monitoring purposes with an easy initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with Zabbix, IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), Amazon CloudWatch, Checkmk and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga.
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