We used several other monitoring tools that didn't give us all the details, the visibility, and the reporting we were looking for in a single pane of glass, and OpsView gave us that.

There are other tools out there designed for scalability, such as Zoho. When we started loading up different sites on other tools with the same environments we had in Opsview, Opsview was much faster. If I wanted to pull a NetFlow report on the other tool, I had to sit there and wait minutes for it to go through and churn through a more legacy, SQL-type database. It was incredibly slow and painful, and you'd miss the window to easily capture stuff. Collecting NetFlow information on Opsview was wonderful and quick in contrast to other tools that we had that were just lethargic with 5,000 devices.

Opsview gave much better visibility than the other tools. We also ensured the service desk has visibility so people don't start calling us and saying that there's something wrong with the network or the server farm when it is something else. When we look at Opsview and the site, we see nothing wrong with that site. No errors are being reported, no outages, no service degradation, and no slowness. We could easily call root cause analysis or troubleshooting because we could rule out what was working and not working, what was slow, not slow, or impaired.

By contrast, other tools had lots of noise/alerts that were not actionable. And we were spending an inordinate amount of time trying to dial out the noise on the other tools, which was incredibly painful. At some point, we had to stop fighting with the tool and just throw it out the back door and start over, which we did with Opsview.

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The extensibility of Opsview is via the underlying agents or plugins. With Nagios, you have the ability to write your own. Those you can instantly plugin, and it's extremely extensible depending on your knowledge of how to create plugins for it.

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Previously, we were using Nagios in our company. We are currently using Opsview and Nagios together. Also, I can't comment on which one we will adopt for our company. At the moment, we're using Opsview and Nagios in different ways.

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We previously used Nagios then Nagios XI.

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We previously used Vanilla and Nagios. We needed a solution that was scalable but still supported our existing plugins.

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We previously used ITM, and the primary reason for switching was cost savings, but the increased scope of monitoring by the base Opsview product and the larger number of supported OS's were also factors.

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We are using it alongside Opsview, which we use to monitor our virtual infrastructure.

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We were using a previous solution called NightWatch. It had nowhere near the features of Opsview.

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We previously used a combination of Big Brother, Ganglia, Cacti, a Syslog server, and an in-house monitoring solution. We selected Opsview over its competitors primarily due to the distributed full-redundancy. Second on our list was the replacement of many systems with a single configuration point.

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We used Nagios Core Open Source, so we had no certifiable support.

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We used Nagios previously, and it was reliable but hard to configure, and even harder to create a master/slave configuration.

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Prior to 2012, we were using Nagios and NetSaint. We moved to Opsview as it gave us GUI flexibility and also allowed us to migrate our Nagios and NetSaint alarms and plugins easily.

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I used Opsview in my previous job and that's the reason why I went with them here in my current role.

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We previously just used plain old Nagios. Opsview did way more of what we needed.

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I used Icinga in my previous company.

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Yes, we used vanilla Nagios which was spread out over three different installs with different configurations and different versions. View full review »

I did not previously use a different solution.

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