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ElastAlert vs Nagios: What are the differences?
ElastAlert: Easy & Flexible Alerting With ElasticSearch. A simple framework for alerting on anomalies, spikes, or other patterns of interest from data in Elasticsearch; Nagios: Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services. Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.
ElastAlert and Nagios can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.
ElastAlert and Nagios are both open source tools. It seems that ElastAlert with 6K GitHub stars and 1.29K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Nagios with 60 GitHub stars and 36 GitHub forks.
Uber Technologies, Dropbox, and 9GAG are some of the popular companies that use Nagios, whereas ElastAlert is used by Slack, ScreenAware, and Sainsburys. Nagios has a broader approval, being mentioned in 223 company stacks & 309 developers stacks; compared to ElastAlert, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
- free open source
- modern interface and architecture
- large community
- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
Pros of ElastAlert
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- It just works53
- The standard28
- Customizable12
- The Most flexible monitoring system8
- Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from1
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