Nagios Network Analyzer vs Plixer Scrutinizer comparison

Nagios and Plixer are both solutions in the Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) category. Nagios is ranked #11, while Plixer is ranked #13. Nagios holds a 3.8% mindshare in NTA, compared to Plixer’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Nagios users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Plixer users who would recommend it.

Nagios Network Analyzer

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 6, 2024

Plixer Scrutinizer and Nagios Network Analyzer are both prominent network analysis tools, each with unique strengths. Plixer Scrutinizer seems to have the upper hand due to its ease of deployment and superior customer service.

Features: Users highlight Plixer Scrutinizer's comprehensive traffic analysis, robust reporting capabilities, and ease of deployment. Nagios Network Analyzer is noted for its scalability, sophisticated monitoring, and rich feature set.

Room for Improvement: Plixer Scrutinizer could enhance its integration options, improve alarm management, and optimize performance during peak usage. Nagios Network Analyzer needs a more intuitive setup process, better documentation, and enhanced user interface design.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Plixer Scrutinizer is praised for its straightforward deployment and exceptional customer support. Nagios Network Analyzer users indicate a steeper learning curve and less responsive support. Thus, Plixer Scrutinizer offers a more user-friendly and supported experience.

Pricing and ROI: Reviews suggest Plixer Scrutinizer has a higher setup cost with a notably strong ROI due to its comprehensive features. Nagios Network Analyzer, while more affordable initially, may yield a lower ROI because of its complex deployment and user training costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Nagios Network Analyzer

Ranking in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Plixer Scrutinizer

Ranking in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

13th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (72nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) category, the mindshare of Nagios Network Analyzer is 3.8%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plixer Scrutinizer is 3.7%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Nagios Network Analyzer	3.8%
Plixer Scrutinizer	3.7%
Other	92.5%

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

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Gilbert Mwiinga

Baobab College logo System Administrator at Baobab College

Effectively monitors the uptime of all equipment and network connectivity

There is room for improvement on the setup side. It's not very user-friendly, especially for those who aren't tech-savvy. I find it a bit hard to set up initially. It could be done better to make it easier to configure. It would be beneficial for users. For additional features, I have an idea. I'm not sure if it's already there, but it would be great to have a feature that maps the network and shows which devices are connected. It could provide information about how traffic flows and offer a visual representation of how devices are physically connected to each other. It would be like a network audit feature that displays the connections between switches and other devices. So, in future releases, a network mapping and visualization feature would be valuable.

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Ira Mulyanti

Sales Director at ARGA SOLUSI

An affordable product with great integration capabilities

Plixer Core Platform is a valuable feature and a good software. Plixer Scrutinizer uses NetFlow analysis to monitor whatever is there in a network. Price-wise, Plixer Scrutinizer is not an expensive product. Basically, Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that can integrate with any other brand or product in the market, so it is not an area of concern.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is useful for monitoring network devices."

"The tool's UI is user-friendly, and pricing is affordable. It is very easy to deploy and learn."

"It is highly customizable and can be integrated well with third-party software."

"I have found that it has a good GUI and user-friendly administration."

"The solution offers very good system monitoring. It's easy to manage your network, as well as your hardware and software. It's really useful."

"Its initial setup process is straightforward."

"Network tracking is the most valuable feature of Network Analyzer."

"The network monitoring feature, especially, stands out to me."

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"It shows us the saturation of the network of devices. It gives us a clear view of the flows in the network to understand, for instance, planning upgrades in the network to get an idea of what's going on the network on traffic flows. It gives us insight, for instance, on what's going on on our VPN Client. There are a lot of things where it provides very helpful information. It also gives us our security reports with quite detailed information on what's going on in the network, and whether there are data exfiltrations and so on."

"We have had many requests to understand in the network which devices are connected to others. Most people don't have this information or are able to establish a map of data flow everywhere around the network. Scrutinizer can really help with this. We are using it to understand who is talking to what, how, and which protocols can help us to improve security and analyze flow."

"The solution helps to enrich the data context of our network traffic. It allows me to see what applications are most in use on a slightly historical basis, going back a day or week at tops. It allows me to tune QoS or traffic shaping around what's being used. It saves me from having to unnecessarily upgrade, if I don't need to."

"One feature I found most valuable in Plixer Scrutinizer is the very extensive reporting. Reporting is very flexible, though sometimes you need a little bit of support from Plixer Scrutinizer to create custom-made reporting in a very short time. Reporting is a very strong feature of the product."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the ability to track what a device is doing and to go back historically. It is also able to go down to, and identify, very low levels of traffic."

"As a network engineer, the ability to identify what traffic on the link is consuming all the bandwidth at any given time, and provide immediate feedback to the business, is the most valuable feature."

"Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features."

"We didn't experience any bugs."

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Cons

"I think the reports can be improved. They're adopted."

"The bandwidth for its front-end version needs enhancement."

"They need to have some automation models embedded in them."

"There is room for improvement on the setup side."

"Nagios Network Analyzer should integrate an application monitoring solution to monitor application bandwidth usage."

"It has an old-fashioned interface."

"The graphics and reports can be a little bit better."

"It's very hard to install materials. You need a lot of documentation. They should make it easier to install and configure the solution."

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"From what I understand it is that the solution is not very scalable in a high volume traffic environment with a large number of flows."

"The reporting structure, the front-end GUI, also needs some work. It needs some getting used to. It works fairly well, but it's a technical tool rather than a user tool. You have to understand the structure of the databases before you can really use it."

"Knowing that they're coming out with a new user interface, that is an area where there is room for improvement. There are so many variables. They should limit the variables in the user interface and create some classes, like "simple," "novice," and "expert" to narrow down the variables within it."

"The solution creates a visual map of a particular location and how the network flows. You need to spend time to generate all those maps. If they could figure out a way to reduce the time needed to generate the maps, that would be great."

"Data retention needs improvement. Data retention is a thing where we are looking for a better way to collect flow data for a longer time to do forensic research on security incidents. By default, data retention is quite low. We need detailed data in safe storage for a longer time, e.g., for a couple of months. An improvement would be a way to export data into a secure long-term storage."

"There was a price lift because previously the product was privately owned, and now there is some external capital in the organization, so pricing could be lower, though, for Plixer Scrutinizer, there is almost no competition at this price point."

"Though Plixer Scrutinizer has network detection and response, it's an area that needs just a little more rounding out. Another room for improvement in the solution is its lack of SaaS offering which some customers were looking for. My company deals in small to medium businesses, mid-market, and some customers wanted the SaaS feature which Plixer Scrutinizer doesn't offer. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for it to have a SaaS offering because my company also deals with educational spaces and smaller businesses that just don't have the staff that can implement this. If there's either a managed service or SaaS-based offering to just make it a little easier for those types of customers, it would be a great addition to Plixer Scrutinizer."

"It would be useful if there was a way to back up the configuration information. E.g., if you wanted to deploy a new instance or disaster recovery, you could quite easily deploy and restore the config, as opposed to having to restore all the NetFlow data. If there was just a button that said "backup config information", that would be good."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"They charge around ten thousand per month for one thousand nodes. That is their overall cost, but it differs on which company you are applying to, whether you are a service provider or an enterprise."

"I rate Nagios Network Analyzer's pricing a six out of ten."

"The solution is cost-efficient."

"Compared to some of the other tools we have, it's incredibly reasonably priced."

"Currently, the license for Plixer Scrutinizer is subscription-based and at a yearly fee. The price would depend on the amount of traffic you pull in. For example, there are several blocks from a 10K flow, a 40K flow, and a 100K flow, and based on the number of devices that you receive the flows from, that's the license, and it is not a per-interface pricing model, so that is a very strong, very competitive pricing feature of Plixer Scrutinizer. Licensing for the product is also not based on the number of storage, compared to some competing products that are priced based on the amount of storage you need, particularly based on the retention and the amount of data. Plixer Scrutinizer licensing is based on the device, and it's more in the direction of $10,000 because, with just $1,000, you don't have anything."

"We recently bought a license upgrade, so we will integrate more exporters. We upgraded from a 25 exporter license to a 50 exporter license. Therefore, there will be more flows, and this will be an extension. I don't know when we will purchase a faster server, because the server that we have is quite new."

"We pay our one-off cost for the licenses, per device, in blocks of 50. And then we pay an annual maintenance fee of about $15,000 Australian, which is, at this point in time, about $9,000 US, for those 250 devices. The upfront costs for the 250-license use, were about $50,000 Australian, which is about $32,000 US."

"There is a recurring maintenance fee after the initial purchase or if we want the license upgrade."

"The licensing cost for Plixer Scrutinizer is in the middle. It's not the cheapest, but it's not the most expensive. Its licensing model is based on how many exporters, how many devices export information to the system. Plixer Scrutinizer has different modules you could add such as the security module which would cost extra."

"I rate Plixer Scrutinizer's price a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price or affordable, and ten is high price or expensive."

"There are no extra costs. It's about $8,000 a year. The bang for the buck (cost) is definitely a plus."

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Small Business	4
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Large Enterprise	8

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Overview

Nagios Enterprises delivers official products, services, and solutions for and around Nagios – the industry standard in enterprise-grade IT infrastructure monitoring. With millions of users worldwide, Nagios is the undisputed champion in the IT monitoring space. Our team of dedicated professionals works to ensure total customer satisfaction with all the services we provide. Our extensive network of partners helps extend Nagios services and solutions to new organizations and markets worldwide to meet a variety of business needs. Nagios Enterprises was founded in 2007 by Ethan Galstad. Ethan created what would later become known as Nagios in 1999, and currently serves as the President of Nagios Enterprises.

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The Scrutinizer incident response system leverages network traffic analytics to provide active monitoring, visualization, and reporting of network and security incidents. The system quickly delivers the rich forensic data needed by IT professionals to support fast and efficient incident response.

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