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Andrew D.

Marketing Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/4/2018

"Nagios for monitoring"

5/5

What do you like best about Nagios Network Analyzer?

We use nagios to monitor our 1000+ server farms and it works great for individual services on each server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nagios Network Analyzer?

I just find that the alert sound is horrible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/2/2016

"Nagios helps us monitor our network with ease"

4/5

What do you like best about Nagios Network Analyzer?

Very nice product for quick checks, easy to configure from server and client side, Open source..which can be a double edged sword, but at least you have options. Nagios operates well in large environments. Nagios websit ehas most basics thoroughly documented for reference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nagios Network Analyzer?

All of the false positive alerts are annoying and time consuming to sift through from a technical support/help desk standpoint. It's a reat tool but considering how many years it has been existing it barely evolved. By default every alert triggers a notification. it also does not support plotting graphs of the monitored values. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Melinda Z.

Business Developmental Manager

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/6/2017

"Useful tool"

4/5

What do you like best about Nagios Network Analyzer?

Great application for monitoring. Allows for things to get fixed in a timely manner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nagios Network Analyzer?

The actual look of the page is plain and there is a lot of redundancy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/2/2018

"Open source, good for smaller companies"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Nagios Network Analyzer?

Easy to set up, build simple checks, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nagios Network Analyzer?

Stick to the best practices. Don't go crazy with customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AM

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/1/2017

"Excellent Freeware Software for Network Monitoring"

5/5

What do you like best about Nagios Network Analyzer?

Overall the price factor but I really like that we can setup services to ping devices all around our office, not just networking equipment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nagios Network Analyzer?

The learning curve is a bit steep but easiest thing to do is build an EC2 instance and dev it from there via terminal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Nagios Network Analyzer:

Do your research and don't be afraid to test. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Nagios Network Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've solved a way of monitoring our networking equipment/IT equipment located within all our offices to send us notifications as to when they go down. This is an incredible benefit because we get alerted in real time as to when issues happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mary G.

Network Specialist

Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/30/2017

"Nagios has been reliable so far but always needs tweaking"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Nagios Network Analyzer?

I like the reliability. It has never failed us to get alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nagios Network Analyzer?

It needs tweaking. You'd have to be very specific and make sure to tweak it to avoid false alarms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ian N.

Cloud Services Engineer

Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/5/2017

"Once you get past the hard part, then comes the hard part..."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Nagios Network Analyzer?

Nagios has changed the way we do business in the sense that we are now more aware of our capacity than ever and are able to provide our customers with a next level service that has only improved as we continue to use nagios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nagios Network Analyzer?

Configuring the product can be difficult and outlining information in alerts can also be just as difficult not only for creation, but also review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Nagios Network Analyzer:

Configuration can be difficult, take your time and ensure that you give your whole team a rundown of what you hope to accomplish with the product and their purpose with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Nagios Network Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?

A gap in our monitoring solution has now been resolved. There were several fires as a result of the lapse in monitoring that has now been alleviated by the addition of nagios into our systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Hiral P.

Voip Engineer

Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/21/2017

"Nagios is OK not great"

1.5/5

What do you like best about Nagios Network Analyzer?

GUI is awesome

opensource

free

ACK integration with Pagerduty

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What do you dislike about Nagios Network Analyzer?

not scalable

lots of configuration

hard to understand

not accurate

nagios host itself freeze up and then all other host show down and give false alram Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/29/2016

"A Jack of all Trades"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Nagios Network Analyzer?

Malleability is Nagios' true strongpoint. I have seen it used in 3 fairly different environments. I've used 3 different frontends, currently using 2, to interact with the nagios backbone. Each having their own strengths and weaknesses respectively. When it comes to interacting directly with it via the CLI, while not the nicest to look at or work with, it does exactly what you tell it to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nagios Network Analyzer?

Directly editing configurations can sometimes be a bit of a process due to having to dig through the files in the terminal. You get out what you put in, and for most people the quality of their nagios experience will have to do with what front-end they end up putting in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Nagios Network Analyzer:

I have only ever used nagios to monitor systems, would recommend for large scale operations. It is able to handle all of our needs and is highly customizable when it comes to its alerting. I would recommend looking into the various front-ends that are available for it, as that will determine a large chunk of your experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Nagios Network Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?

In all the scenarios where I have used nagios, it has been the monitoring of a vast amount of servers/systems and being able to report issues quickly. Without nagios, the online business unit operations teams would be operating "blind". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Government Administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/7/2016

"Works well, if a little clunky to set up."

4/5

What do you like best about Nagios Network Analyzer?

It monitors everything we threw at it. It can even tie into pagers (yes, old style beepers) to deliver notifications. Down time and maintenance notifications are easy to use. The add ons really make this product shine -- with the help of free libraries of addons and plugins online there is very little that can't be monitored by this software. Plus, the price is right! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nagios Network Analyzer?

It can be a little clunky to configure -- manually editing text files in a CLI isn't exactly my idea of a great time. There are GUI plugins available, but I have yet to find one that works as well as simply editing the config files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.