We compared Nagios Core and New Relic across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Nagios Core is an adaptable solution praised for its integration, customizability, and ability to effectively monitor server availability and network connectivity. New Relic offers reliable monitoring capabilities and advanced traceability features.
Room for Improvement: Nagios Core users have requested better documentation, improved scalability, and a more user-friendly configuration process. New Relic could improve by simplifying server removal and offering more detailed troubleshooting information. Reviewers also said the user experience could be smoother and that the documentation should be more detailed.
Service and Support: Nagios Core lacks direct customer service, but users can generally find help from a supportive open-source community and large knowledge base. Some New Relic customers commended the prompt and knowledgeable support, while others expressed dissatisfaction with slow response times and delayed resolutions.
Ease of Deployment: Nagios Core's setup is generally seen as well-documented and straightforward. New Relic's setup is perceived as relatively easy, and professional services are available if needed.
Pricing: Nagios Core is free, but users may incur costs for installation and configuration. New Relic's pricing is considered a pain point for many customers, but others said it is reasonable for the features provided. There are additional costs for extra features and historical information.
ROI: Nagios Core users say they have saved money by replacing paid monitoring tools with this open-source solution. Some New Relic users reported a positive return on investment, but others were uncertain or have not observed any ROI.
Comparison Results: Nagios Core is a flexible open-source solution that is highly customizable and offers robust functionality commonly found in paid enterprise solutions. However, some users have said that Nagios Core becomes unwieldy when used at a large scale and that the documentation could be more thorough. New Relic is praised for its robust monitoring capabilities, stellar customer service, and painless setup, but some users say the solution is too pricey and that the user experience could be better.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The solution is quite efficient."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"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 monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"Alert calls occur anytime a service goes down or a matrix is difficult and that helps us to quickly restore service and transfer work."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"You don't have to go through a list of 500 servers."
"Sometimes, I monitor the user's time of response and use this information to improve the number of servers on the back-end. Or, I can use it to change my back log for front-end developers and improve their response times. It's very important in this case because I can improve the experience of the final user."
"The synthetics, alerts, and native inbuilt capabilities for monitoring the cloud with the New Relic agents have been helpful."
"The versatility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The integration and configuration of New Relic is straightforward and easy."
"Server uptime is its most valuable feature."
"Every time there is a crisis, high traffic, or if we see a problem with a server, we go to New Relic and monitor it to determine the cause."
"The VPN is one of the solution's most valuable features for us."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"Cloud monitoring is an area for improvement because there aren't too many plugins available."
"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"The tool needs to improve the integrations."
"There is room for improvement in the graphics."
"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."
"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."
"The older view is much better than the new view that they have. We'd like to go back to that previous version. The user interface just isn't as nice as it used to be."
"One thing I'd like to see in any APM, especially New Relic, is the ability to use distributed transactions. When one microservice calls another, it calls another database and microservice. The entire data visualization layer will not be able to correlate from one microservice from end to end and return on that path. Distributed transactions would be a great addition that would make life simpler. Unfortunately, no APM has that end-to-end capability."
"New Relic APM is a good tool, and it has a database of failures, but it could use a list of customer-specific failures. New Relic APM should be able to give my company advanced analytics through AI."
"The monitoring is only as good as the alerts that it produces. By having it set up fine grain alerting, it is a bit of a pain."
"Real-user monitoring would be helpful as it would help me to really understand the client-side performance of the application."
"The solution does not provide input on how the page performs in a big group. It just says that the page performance is bad, but it does not say what can be done to improve it. If they could provide some insight or guidance on how to make improvements, that would be a big help."
"The solution should include more detailed reports for SQL database requests."
"There were some settings we had issues with."
Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while New Relic is ranked 6th in Network Monitoring Software with 152 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while New Relic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of New Relic writes "Has a simple user interface and end-to-end monitoring and self-healing features". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Icinga, Centreon and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas New Relic is most compared with Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic Observability, Grafana and Prometheus. See our Nagios Core vs. New Relic report.
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