We performed a comparison between Nagios Core and WhatsUp Gold 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."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"I like that it's very simple to install, easy to manage and deploy, and easy to use for monitoring."
"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is the ability to check the availability of the server for network connectivity. Additionally, the interface is good."
"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."
"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."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"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."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"Bandwidth monitoring is the pain point for me because Nagios Core does not monitor bandwidth effectively like Cacti does."
"I would like to see more training videos."
"Cloud monitoring is an area for improvement because there aren't too many plugins available."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
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Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Nagios Core is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, Icinga and Centreon, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Nagios Core vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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