We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and ThousandEyes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"We use the product to monitor server applications."
"Our customers like that Nagios Core is an open source solution. It can be customized to our customers' specific needs."
"Key features include the GUI interface, its notification capabilities, and the real-time reporting."
"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."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"Other products are good but from the configuration point of view Nagios is really very lightweight. The price is really good in my opinion. Another important thing is that my Nagios engine still works with Dual core 8GB ram for the last 10 years."
"Nagios Core is very configurable. Whatever you want, you can do it."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The company provides excellent service."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier."
"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."
"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."
"Bandwidth monitoring is the pain point for me because Nagios Core does not monitor bandwidth effectively like Cacti does."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
"Nagios Core could improve by adding a user interface. If you want the user interface you have to use Nagios XI."
"I would like to see more training videos."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"It's an expensive solution."
Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Icinga, Centreon and OP5 Monitor, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics. See our Nagios Core vs. ThousandEyes report.
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