We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) 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."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"It has made the life of the network operations staff more proactive in managing the resources of the infrastructure. It prevents disasters long before they can take place."
"Nagios Core is stable."
"What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"Provides timely notifications."
"We use the product to monitor server applications."
"ITSI includes a feature called a glass table."
"ITSI provides a visual representation of complex tools and context, using color coding and other features to make it easy for anyone at the monitoring or service desk to use."
"Customers have noted the solution helps streamline incident management."
"ITSI's most valuable feature is that it's easy to integrate DLP."
"Splunk Episodes are valuable because it correlates and aggregates all the information, and you do not have one million events to look at and triage, so it is quite convenient."
"We have a lot of teams using Splunk and they would be blind without it."
"The glass tables are very helpful."
"Alerts and episodes are valuable to me."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
"It is a bit slow due to latency."
"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."
"Bandwidth monitoring is the pain point for me because Nagios Core does not monitor bandwidth effectively like Cacti does."
"The tool needs to improve the integrations."
"Nagios Core is limited in terms of distributed setups, and there is no central view for remote data centers."
"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."
"We'd like them to show more inputs on the dashboard."
"Splunk ITSI generates numerous false positives and has the potential for enhancement."
"Integration is the most critical area to improve in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI). It wasn't a great experience because you had to do a little back and forth to integrate the solution."
"The problem becomes the price, as Splunk is an expensive product."
"Predictive analytics, in terms of preventing incidents before they occur, still needs time to mature."
"It would be advantageous to enhance the dashboard by incorporating sections for monitoring, service health, and a filter for the KPIs."
"Splunk ITSI lacks out-of-the-box solutions for enterprise users."
"We're using predictive analytics, and there are three or four algorithms. It would be helpful if this process were more standardized and scalable."
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Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is ranked 5th in IT Alerting and Incident Management with 28 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) writes "Provides great end-to-end visibility into our network environment and helped us reduce alert noise". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Centreon, Icinga and Nmap, whereas Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Grafana, Dynatrace and Splunk APM. See our Nagios Core vs. Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) report.
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