The dashboard should be improved. It's very simple. I don't have a very clear or specific suggestion. You can change the skin of the dashboard, however, it's good for me.
The NetEase reporting structure needs improvement, especially the availability report, which is weak. It should be generated automatically with minimal human intervention and should be exportable as a PDF. Besides that, an integrated PDF export feature for reports is necessary. Also, the alert mechanism and graphing mechanism need to be integrated properly into Nagios Core. Currently, integrating these requires advanced Linux knowledge. Integration of more visualization tools like Grafana and Prometheus for better graphing and visualization is also recommended.
Senior Application Performance Monitoring and Alerting Specialist at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
Jul 12, 2024
The alerting mechanism in Nagios Core could be improved. While Nagios Core is a solid option, I prefer other solutions that offer more built-in functionality and better dashboarding, even in their free versions. Nagios Core is a free solution not designed to have extensive front-end capabilities. For this reason, we usually use Nagios Core mainly for technical and system solutions in the backend rather than for front-end presentations to business stakeholders. We would probably never show them a Nagios Core dashboard directly. Instead, I would feed the data into another presentation tool like Grafana.
Admin Sys Linux at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Dec 12, 2023
I have found Nagios Core to be challenging in terms of its centralized architecture and configuration complexities, especially in a Microsoft environment. Making optimizations or changes often requires reinstalling the server, which can be inconvenient.
Regional Portfolio Manager at First in Business Solutions
Real User
Aug 14, 2023
There is room for improvement in the graphics. Another are of improvement is the ability to host and service by other web interfaces rather than configuration files.
Big Data Infrastructure Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Sep 28, 2022
Datadog provides the compatibility to integrate with these big data platforms like Cloudera and others. These services are very efficient and they provide customer support with it. In this case, I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future.
Partner Technical Support & Escalation Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Real User
Feb 22, 2022
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. In terms of new features, we're just using it for what it is. We are using what we've got now. We don't have any additional requirements as far as I'm aware.
If we need to process quicker, we use third party plugins to avoid downtime. Nagios Core would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down. Comparing Nagios UI and Nagios Core, in Nagios Core we need to do some coding while Nagios XI has everything in UI. If you go with Nagios XI the developer task is minimized because they help provide the UI. With Nagios Core, we need to log into the Linux servers and we need to change that particular directory. We need to write a code for each and every server.
Sr. System Administrator at Guj Info Petro Limited
Real User
Top 20
Sep 10, 2021
Recommendation: 1 Provide a user friendly GUI to configure various hosts/services using a graphical frontend. Recommendation: 2 To monitor bandwidth utilization statistics (Just like Cacti) under Nagios Core. I completely understood that Nagios is actually an incident management system, not a bandwidth monitoring tool. So, I tried a lot to integrate Cacti into Nagios but the results are not satisfactorily.
Network Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jan 14, 2021
The latest version is a bit more difficult. There have been some changes that have not really improved the solution. We have a new manager coming in, and they will watch and see over the course of the year if the solution needs any specific improvements. We're still in the process of testing the solution. The implementation and deployment might need to be slightly improved. It would be nice if the company offered a sales or contract manager that was dedicated to our company so that we would have some sort of link to Nagios, and if we had issues or questions, we'd be able to contact them directly. It would be good if the solution had some sort of alarm system to alert managers to any issues. We get good alerts, they just need to get to the right person more efficiently.
Network Operations Center Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Sep 27, 2020
Most of the issues have been covered through Nagios XI, but they could select some of the small features that are in the paid version and include them as part of Nagios Core. Especially the graphical user interface in terms of configuration when you add in hosts, you have to use CAC and CLI to add hosts. You could use the GUI to add hosts instead. The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time.
The core version is no match for the XI version. But the OEM should consider introducing some of the features of the XI version in the core version so that potential customers are actually compelled to to consider upgrading to the enterprise version
Computer Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Jun 30, 2019
I am satisfied, but I think there is a little bit of improvement that can be made. Lessening the price point would be an improvement. I would like to see more training videos. It is a vast product and it covers so many areas and so many kinds of devices, so I do understand that it's a challenge when you want some kind of integration, or add a plugin, to always have documentation. But, yeah, as much as possible on the documentation, if it can be done better, that would be good. If there was more application monitoring, it would be much better.
Software Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jun 16, 2019
It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through. In addition, I would appreciate an FNP server for sending emails, which now depends on the resting servers for Nagios Core. If it comes with its own FNP server, it would be much better. Also, if it can be installed in other cores, that would be awesome but right now it only uses Linux. Alias excavation and configurations from the wall rather than the server itself would be great improvements. Also, general UI enhancements and better UX, user experience.
The GUI of the Core is still a long way off, but the features are 100 percent above average. It would be great to see better UI themes which could be configured by Netadmin or instructions that help combine graphs and Nagios.
Strategic Staffing Solutions at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
May 23, 2018
In terms of any further features, that would bump us into their paid product. For what we get and what we use, and all the libraries that are available, it's pretty robust. However, for the version we're using, 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.
The dashboard should be improved. It's very simple. I don't have a very clear or specific suggestion. You can change the skin of the dashboard, however, it's good for me.
The NetEase reporting structure needs improvement, especially the availability report, which is weak. It should be generated automatically with minimal human intervention and should be exportable as a PDF. Besides that, an integrated PDF export feature for reports is necessary. Also, the alert mechanism and graphing mechanism need to be integrated properly into Nagios Core. Currently, integrating these requires advanced Linux knowledge. Integration of more visualization tools like Grafana and Prometheus for better graphing and visualization is also recommended.
The alerting mechanism in Nagios Core could be improved. While Nagios Core is a solid option, I prefer other solutions that offer more built-in functionality and better dashboarding, even in their free versions. Nagios Core is a free solution not designed to have extensive front-end capabilities. For this reason, we usually use Nagios Core mainly for technical and system solutions in the backend rather than for front-end presentations to business stakeholders. We would probably never show them a Nagios Core dashboard directly. Instead, I would feed the data into another presentation tool like Grafana.
The interface could be improved.
I have found Nagios Core to be challenging in terms of its centralized architecture and configuration complexities, especially in a Microsoft environment. Making optimizations or changes often requires reinstalling the server, which can be inconvenient.
There is room for improvement in the graphics. Another are of improvement is the ability to host and service by other web interfaces rather than configuration files.
Nagios Core does not have a graphic display.
The tool needs to improve the integrations.
Cloud monitoring is an area for improvement because there aren't too many plugins available.
The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic.
The UI is a little outdated so it's not as user-friendly as it should be and the graphics should be displayed in a better way.
The initial setup process could be improved.
Datadog provides the compatibility to integrate with these big data platforms like Cloudera and others. These services are very efficient and they provide customer support with it. In this case, I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future.
The mapping is a little hard.
I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network.
Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier.
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. In terms of new features, we're just using it for what it is. We are using what we've got now. We don't have any additional requirements as far as I'm aware.
The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved.
If we need to process quicker, we use third party plugins to avoid downtime. Nagios Core would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down. Comparing Nagios UI and Nagios Core, in Nagios Core we need to do some coding while Nagios XI has everything in UI. If you go with Nagios XI the developer task is minimized because they help provide the UI. With Nagios Core, we need to log into the Linux servers and we need to change that particular directory. We need to write a code for each and every server.
Recommendation: 1 Provide a user friendly GUI to configure various hosts/services using a graphical frontend. Recommendation: 2 To monitor bandwidth utilization statistics (Just like Cacti) under Nagios Core. I completely understood that Nagios is actually an incident management system, not a bandwidth monitoring tool. So, I tried a lot to integrate Cacti into Nagios but the results are not satisfactorily.
The latest version is a bit more difficult. There have been some changes that have not really improved the solution. We have a new manager coming in, and they will watch and see over the course of the year if the solution needs any specific improvements. We're still in the process of testing the solution. The implementation and deployment might need to be slightly improved. It would be nice if the company offered a sales or contract manager that was dedicated to our company so that we would have some sort of link to Nagios, and if we had issues or questions, we'd be able to contact them directly. It would be good if the solution had some sort of alarm system to alert managers to any issues. We get good alerts, they just need to get to the right person more efficiently.
Most of the issues have been covered through Nagios XI, but they could select some of the small features that are in the paid version and include them as part of Nagios Core. Especially the graphical user interface in terms of configuration when you add in hosts, you have to use CAC and CLI to add hosts. You could use the GUI to add hosts instead. The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time.
The core version is no match for the XI version. But the OEM should consider introducing some of the features of the XI version in the core version so that potential customers are actually compelled to to consider upgrading to the enterprise version
I am satisfied, but I think there is a little bit of improvement that can be made. Lessening the price point would be an improvement. I would like to see more training videos. It is a vast product and it covers so many areas and so many kinds of devices, so I do understand that it's a challenge when you want some kind of integration, or add a plugin, to always have documentation. But, yeah, as much as possible on the documentation, if it can be done better, that would be good. If there was more application monitoring, it would be much better.
It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through. In addition, I would appreciate an FNP server for sending emails, which now depends on the resting servers for Nagios Core. If it comes with its own FNP server, it would be much better. Also, if it can be installed in other cores, that would be awesome but right now it only uses Linux. Alias excavation and configurations from the wall rather than the server itself would be great improvements. Also, general UI enhancements and better UX, user experience.
This is the open source product, so it's a toolkit rather than a complete solution. See Nagios XI for a more complete version.
The GUI of the Core is still a long way off, but the features are 100 percent above average. It would be great to see better UI themes which could be configured by Netadmin or instructions that help combine graphs and Nagios.
In terms of any further features, that would bump us into their paid product. For what we get and what we use, and all the libraries that are available, it's pretty robust. However, for the version we're using, 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.