We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Provides timely notifications."
"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"Nagios Core is stable."
"The notifications are definitely one of the most valuable features of Nagios Core. We know what to look for and what to expect when things are down."
"Other products are good but from the configuration point of view Nagios is really very lightweight. The price is really good in my opinion. Another important thing is that my Nagios engine still works with Dual core 8GB ram for the last 10 years."
"Our customers like that Nagios Core is an open source solution. It can be customized to our customers' specific needs."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"It would be nice if the company offered a sales or contract manager that was dedicated to our company so that we would have some sort of link to Nagios, and if we had issues or questions, we'd be able to contact them directly."
"We're using the free version, which limits us in terms of the things that we can do. If we had the paid version, a lot of our issues would probably go away. For example, we can't isolate instances that are being built or updated with the production ones. When they're being built, on Nagios, they're showing in red. It'd be nice to be able to partition those off until they're all green, and then we can bring them into the environment. This is probably because we've got the free version and not the paid version. If we went for the paid version, it would probably allow us to do exactly what we want to or remove the restrictions that we have, but if we are able to isolate instances in the free version, it would make life much easier."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"The mapping is a little hard."
"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."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
Nagios Core is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 76 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Centreon, Icinga and OP5 Monitor, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and AppDynamics. See our Nagios Core vs. SCOM report.
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