Nagios
An open-source and enterprise standard for monitoring systems, networks, and infrastructure availability.
| Pricing from | Custom |
| Best for | System administrators wanting total control |
| Website | www.nagios.org |
Strengths and trade-offs
- Highly customisable with thousands of plugins
- On-premise deployment options
- Requires significant technical expertise to configure and maintain
Appears in
SAAS
Datadog95.02
Prometheus92.73
Grafana90.3RANKINGfull ranking →SAAS
UptimeRobot95.02
Better Stack92.73
Pingdom90.3RANKINGfull ranking →
Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms
1Datadog95.02Prometheus92.73Grafana90.3RANKINGfull ranking →SAASTop 10 Uptime Monitoring
1UptimeRobot95.02Better Stack92.73Pingdom90.3RANKINGfull ranking →Alternatives to Nagios
| Datadog Cloud scale monitoring and security | #1 in Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms | 95.0 |
| Prometheus Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for containerised environments | #2 in Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms | 92.7 |
| Grafana Visualise and monitor anything | #3 in Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms | 90.3 |
 New RelicAll-in-one observability platform | #4 in Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms | 88.0 |
 Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch)Open-source search and analytics engine with monitoring and log management | #5 in Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms | 85.7 |
 Splunk | #6 in Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms | 83.3 |
Questions about Nagios
How much does Nagios cost?
Lister lists Nagios's pricing as: Custom.
Who is Nagios best for?
Nagios is best for system administrators wanting total control.
Where does Nagios rank?
Nagios is ranked #9 in Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms (Lister Score 76.3) and #9 in Top 10 Uptime Monitoring (Lister Score 76.3).
What are the best alternatives to Nagios?
The closest alternatives on Lister are Datadog (#1 in Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms), Prometheus (#2 in Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms) and Grafana (#3 in Top 10 Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms).
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