Nagios Core Scalability

NV
Sr. System Administrator at Guj Info Petro Limited

Nagios Core Scalability should be a serious concern for IT professionals responsible for overseeing their unique hosting environments.

Presently, my stand-alone Nagios Core engine monitoring 1000+ nodes but from the scalability point of view, I'm going to perform a distributed monitoring environment in HA (High Availability) mode. Single Nagios Core stands of SPOF (Single Points of Failure) having high RTO & RPO.

Nagios Core, being an open source, contains limited measures you can take to increase the scalability of the product. As it said, a free monitoring tool will simply not be able to handle the volumes of a more flexible, robust system.

That's why keeping Nagios Core due to the $0 price tag may seem like a cost-efficient approach, but eventually, it becomes mandatory to scale it without impacting productivity.

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SS
Senior Technical Support Engineer at a cloud provider with 11-50 employees

The solution is scalable with no issues. 

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GD
Regional Portfolio Manager at First in Business Solutions

I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. In my environment, only I am using the solution. But we definitely plan to increase the usage. 

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Daniel Tamiru - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Database & System Administration at Awash International Bank

The solution is scalable but we are still familiarizing ourselves with tool and have not scaled largely yet.

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James Jaramillo - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at ADDI

Nagios is appropriate for companies of all sizes, but a larger enterprise might require a bigger IT team. The largest team I've seen was 50 people. You can easily scale Nagios up, but I've never done it. 

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JM
Admin Sys Linux at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Nagios Core is limited in terms of distributed setups, and there is no central view for remote data centers. However, it is scalable in sizing, allowing for easy updates and upgrades without much complication. Just need to adjust settings in the software during the process. I would rate the scalability as a six out of ten.

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Fahad-Siddiqui - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data Infrastructure Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nagios Core is scalable for our purposes.

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Chetan_Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at Amity Software Systems Limited

I rate Nagios Core ten out of ten for scalability.

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SR
IT Monitoring & IT Service Automation Product Consultant and Team Lead at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate the scalability at five out of ten.

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it_user873816 - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategic Staffing Solutions at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

So far, it has met our needs. As far as I know, from reading blogs and the like, it can go to many more servers and even multiple data centers. It seems like it's pretty scalable.

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Rizwan Shabbir - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Mentor Graphics

Nagios Core is scalable for our needs. We don't have many servers and network activity, we have approximately 200 nodes, and it's fulfilling our requirements.

We do not have plans to increase our usage of the solution this time but maybe in the future.

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BD
Manager - Service Management ( Event & Capacity ) with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's highly scalable and will scale according to your needs.

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LE
Partner Technical Support & Escalation Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

It seems to be all right at the moment. We don't seem to be having any problems with that. We have upwards of 20 users, and it is being used on a daily basis.

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it_user853911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Architect at Rezgateway

No scalability issues, though it is a bit slow due to latency. However, after tweaking the Nagios and off-loading the graphing to NPCD, I was able to scale the Nagios to more than 5000 services checks with 0.5s latency.

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AD
Systems and Virtualization Engineer at Altelios Technology Group

The scalability of Nagios Core is very good. We can add as many hosts as we like, and we can work with the concept master and client. It's very scalable and we have added the SentryOne as another layer. It's become very easy to use.

This solution is used by two engineering and three technicians. It is not used for end-user.

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it_user978732 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We're only currently using Nagios Core on one to ten servers. In the future, we may add more nodes.

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it_user196494 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Coordinator at a tech services company

We are monitoring under 200 devices and less than 1200 services so I do not need this availability yet.

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it_user69474 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There have been no issues scaling it.

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it_user167934 - PeerSpot reviewer
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JE
Network Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't had any issues with scalability. If a company needs to expand it, it should be able to.

We have about 100 hosts and about 10 servers at this point and maybe 19 at the point of sale.

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it_user367884 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It's been able to scale for our needs.

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it_user187839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no issues scaling it for our needs.

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it_user212514 - PeerSpot reviewer
Graduate Linux System Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It does not scale horizontally. We had to wrote our own web interface and puppetry to manage/view all the hosts managed by various, indipendent Nagios hosts.

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it_user82485 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no scaling issues.

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it_user301461 - PeerSpot reviewer
LAN/Wlan Administrator at a construction company

I've not had to scale it.

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it_user256458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Labs infrastructure & technology team leader at a comms service provider with self employed

There's been no issues having it monitor our entire infrastructure.

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MN
Tech consultant at select softwares

My old instance still runs on a Esxi VM with zero support on the hypervisor or the Nagios system its just a 2GB vRAM and single vCPU with about 40 GB storage and handles about 70 odd hosts and runs just fine apart from the log files maintenance its easy

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MJ
Network Operations Center Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

This solution is not scalable at all. If you want to add an AI, or if you wanted to monitor different types of metrics, you won't get the most out of it.

It's not scalable, which is important these days when you want to see more data and how your network is performing.

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it_user84708 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's been able to scale for our needs.

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it_user244500 - PeerSpot reviewer
Constructor of the computer systems at a security firm with 51-200 employees

I currently do not need to scale on my network.

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Nagios Core
April 2024
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