We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"The solution is quite efficient."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"The most valuable feature depends on the project. It's great if you need to check to ensure a service is running 24/7. I can use the full solution for free, and it's flexible. If I need to add a dashboard, I can integrate it with Nagios. Cloud synchronization is wonderful."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"If you're in the market for a low-cost service desk system, Spiceworks is a good software solution to start out with, especially when it comes to startups and those organizations that don't currently have any existing service desk software in place."
"Tickets by e-mail, with actions by hastag."
"The solution can find all asset details automatically, whether it's a Mac address, computer name, IP address, models, etc. It's very helpful."
"Spiceworks' dashboard allows you to drill down to the notes, where I can take an inventory of the network and see the devices I need to monitor."
"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"It is a bit slow due to latency."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
"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."
"The mapping is a little hard."
"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 scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"Cloud monitoring is an area for improvement because there aren't too many plugins available."
"Nagios Core is limited in terms of distributed setups, and there is no central view for remote data centers."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"The GUI must be improved."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"I would like the solution to allow for more direct interaction with computers. I can open tickets and I can see their status, but I can't interact directly with the computers themselves."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
"One of the biggest ways in which Spiceworks could improve is by developing better and more automated workflows. For example, in another solution called ServiceDesk by ManageEngine, you can have levels of approval in the event that there is a request for new software, or when someone requests a VPN or WiFi connection. This kind of multi-stage approval feature provided by ServiceDesk does not appear to exist in Spiceworks, and it is one of their main shortcomings for me."
Nagios Core is ranked 7th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 46 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 33rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while Spiceworks 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 Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Icinga, Centreon and Nmap, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and SolarWinds NPM. See our Nagios Core vs. Spiceworks report.
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