You want to monitor a specific metric that nobody else has? You can do it even with the most basic of scripting skills, and you can always share it with the vast community of Nagios Exchange.
Principal Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 17, 2017
Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want.
The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more.
Senior DevOps Engineer Individual Contributor at EML Payments Ltd
May 27, 2022
I would like to be able to extend it to all of our data centers, whether they are in the cloud or not. It would be helpful if I could connect everywhere.
The PNP4Nagios plugin not working easily with XI is an issue for me, because some open source monitoring plugins do not work out of the box. But in the end, you learn to live with it.
IT-OSS Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 2, 2021
We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios.