We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and NETSCOUT vSTREAM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is the ability to check the availability of the server for network connectivity. Additionally, the interface is good."
"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."
"Provides timely notifications."
"Key features include the GUI interface, its notification capabilities, and the real-time reporting."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"Nagios Core is stable."
"Our customers like that Nagios Core is an open source solution. It can be customized to our customers' specific needs."
"We use the product to monitor server applications."
"One of the valuable features is the packet decoding."
"vSTREAM gives us better visibility and reporting about our network infrastructure, allowing for cost-optimization."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The tool needs to improve the integrations."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"Making it a little easier to configure and set up from the start would help. There are multiple layers that you have to wade through to be able to set it up, to do it the right way, and to get it to do what you want it to do."
"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."
"Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"Cloud monitoring is an area for improvement because there aren't too many plugins available."
"Bandwidth monitoring is the pain point for me because Nagios Core does not monitor bandwidth effectively like Cacti does."
"I would like for it to have a smaller footprint of the virtual appliance and better performance."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user guide."
"Room for improvement exists in filtering in the packet decode."
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Nagios Core is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETSCOUT vSTREAM writes "Troubleshooting at the packet level helps us resolve issues more quickly". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Centreon, Icinga and OP5 Monitor, whereas NETSCOUT vSTREAM is most compared with vRealize Network Insight, Azure Network Watcher, NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG, Arista Data ANalyZer and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE.
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