We compared Nagios XI and ScienceLogic across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Nagios XI received positive feedback for its versatility and adaptability. It offers a diverse selection of plugins and scripts for monitoring needs. ScienceLogic is highly regarded for its serverless and agent connectivity, versatile graphs and personalized dashboards, AIOps, and event management capabilities, as well as its AI and machine learning features.
Room for Improvement: Users have suggested Nagios XI could improve integration, simplify configuration, and make the platform more user-friendly. Nagios XI users also suggest improvements to network visibility and cloud discovery. ScienceLogic can enhance its documentation, Power Packs, notification features, and automation options.
Service and Support: Some Nagios XI customers complained about the lack of chat or phone support options. ScienceLogic's customer service is generally considered responsive and professional. However, a few users reported delayed response times and support engineers with limited expertise.
Ease of Deployment: Some Nagios XI users found the setup to be relatively simple, while others considered it challenging. Deployment can take a few months to complete, and there’s a steep learning curve. ScienceLogic's initial setup is described as simple and efficient. The deployment process can be completed within a few hours or a couple of weeks.
Pricing: Nagios XI’s pricing is considered reasonable and transparent, with no extra charges. Opinions on the price of ScienceLogic were mixed. Pricing is determined by the number of network devices or endpoints, and there are no hidden charges.
ROI: Nagios XI users reported positive outcomes overall, but some said visibility limitations lower the solution’s ROI. ScienceLogic improves troubleshooting and minimizes network outages.
Comparison Results: Nagios XI is an affordable, flexible solution with a broad feature set and a selection of helpful plugins. At the same time, users say the setup can be complex, and some expressed a desire for more convenient ways to contact support. ScienceLogic is praised for its serverless and agent connectivity, effortless setup, and customized dashboards. However, it lacks detailed documentation and automation options.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"The most valuable features of Nagios XI are you can customize it based on your use case and requirements. It is flexible and easy to integrate with our systems. You can customize the solution by adding additional features using code."
"Nagios XI is a simple monitoring tool with performance management."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios XI is customization. We can customize based on our requirements. We can do modifications and implement a lot of scripts. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"Nagios allows us to configure any device so that we can send pager alerts when people don't have access to emails. It also allows us to schedule downtime and maintenance."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"Best feature of all is detailed monitoring of services, processes, ports and SSL certificates and or web content."
"The flexibility to support most technologies. The way ScienceLogic gathers data from multiple sources is vital to our customers. As we work with new customers (often with different technology requirements), ScienceLogic is flexible enough to support our clients’ varying network needs."
"I'm satisfied with ScienceLogicfor for what they can offer today because they can offer both serverless connectivity and agent connectivity."
"The power flow is great."
"Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server."
"One of the valuable features is rapid dashboards."
"The solution provides good infra-monitoring features."
"Science Logic provides distributed and all-in-one concept in monitoring, you can easily customize the features in this product."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up."
"The installation and monitoring need improvement."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"They should add CLI command modes and scripts for high performance."
"ScienceLogic could improve the implementation, it could be made easier."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"There are often bugs in new releases."
"ScienceLogic does not have application monitoring. We definitely need something integrated within ScienceLogic to monitor applications so that we don't have to rely on monitoring tools to monitor other applications. At least the ones that are market leaders, such as SAP, Oracle, and others."
"It doesn't have the complete application-level topology. It could have service topology and business service monitoring. I would like to see how business service monitoring will function with agent-based installation, and how flexible and business-oriented it is for service modeling and service infrastructure. I have a lot of experience in using business service monitoring, service topology, and service hierarchy functionalities in similar products from BMC and Micro Focus (OpenView), and I want to see how these functionalities will look like in ScienceLogic."
"We want to understand: how does the back end work? What if some problem occurs? What we can do? They need to provide more information."
"They should improve database issues in HA and Failover mode, and provide documentation for all users , even if they are not customers."
Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while ScienceLogic is ranked 12th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 42 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while ScienceLogic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ScienceLogic writes "Great integrations, power flow, and good support". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas ScienceLogic is most compared with Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM, Datadog and Zabbix. See our Nagios XI vs. ScienceLogic report.
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