What is Nagios?
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
Nagios is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Nagios is an open source tool with 58 GitHub stars and 38 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Nagios's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Nagios?
Companies
230 companies reportedly use Nagios in their tech stacks, including Uber, Twitch, and Dropbox.
Developers
570 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Nagios.
Nagios Integrations
Datadog, PagerDuty, Graphite, Zulip, and OpsGenie are some of the popular tools that integrate with Nagios. Here's a list of all 27 tools that integrate with Nagios.
Pros of Nagios
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Decisions about Nagios
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Nagios in their tech stack.
pavithra M B
DEVOPS ENGINEER at TESTYANTRA · | 3 upvotes · 7.3K views
When to use Amazon CloudWatch and when to use Nagios?
Rashid Ansari
I am new to DevOps and looking for training in DevOps. Some institutes are offering Nagios while some Prometheus in their syllabus. Please suggest which one is being used in the industry and which one should I learn.
Blog Posts
Nagios's Features
- Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
- Spot problems before they occur
- Know immediately when problems arise
- Share availability data with stakeholders
- Detect security breaches
- Plan and budget for IT upgrades
- Reduce downtime and business losses
Nagios Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Nagios?
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
Splunk
It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.
Icinga
It monitors availability and performance, gives you simple access to relevant data and raises alerts to keep you in the loop. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application.
Solarwinds
Developed by network and systems engineers who know what it takes to manage today's dynamic IT environments, SolarWinds has a deep connection to the IT community.
AppDynamics
AppDynamics develops application performance management (APM) solutions that deliver problem resolution for highly distributed applications through transaction flow monitoring and deep diagnostics.