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Open-source IT infrastructure monitoring & alerting solution

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Nagios Core - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Nagios Core overview

What is Nagios Core?

Nagios Core is an open-source IT infrastructure monitoring and alerting solution designed to help businesses monitor mission-critical infrastructure components such as network protocols, operating systems, applications, systems metrics, and network infrastructure via a unified platform. It enables IT professionals to receive alerts when critical components fail and recover via email, custom script, or text messages.

It provides a host of features such as FTP monitoring, infrastructure management, data visualization, analytics, mail server monitoring, user management, and more. Nagios Core offers an API, which lets businesses integrate the system with several third-party platforms, enabling businesses to push and pull data across systems.

Starting price

Free

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Nagios Core reviews

Overall rating

4.1

/5

34

Positive reviews

76

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend7.93/10
Rating distribution

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7

1

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Pros
“It's very stable and easy to use once you understand it. Any dashboards with graphs/ trends will be very helpful.”
SD

Srikanth D.

Technical Lead

“Having notifications and alerts for everything that is happening in your network is a great benefit to keep an edge over competitors.”
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Samuel C.

Engineer

“Monitoring is a key need in any Service Desk and Nagios helps with that a great deal.”

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Cons
“This application is very difficult to configure and its interface is terrible. D rather use another application.”
AD

Arthur D.

Founder

“The setup and installation is the main headache about this software. It must run on Linux and is very hard to configure unless you are very familiar with UNIX coding.”
KM

Kyler M.

Systems Analyst

“We know about problems earlier then our customers.”
TR

Thomas R.

IT admin

Who uses Nagios Core?

Based on 34 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Information Technology and Services
Telecommunications
Internet
Computer Games
Others

Use cases

Website Monitoring

Nagios Core's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Nagios Core users:

Alerts/Notifications
Mail Server Monitoring
FTP Monitoring

All Nagios Core features

Features rating:

API
Data visualization
Server monitoring
User management

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Free

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User opinions about Nagios Core price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Nagios Core's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“It's very stable and easy to use once you understand it. Any dashboards with graphs/ trends will be very helpful.”
SD

Srikanth D.

Technical Lead

“Having notifications and alerts for everything that is happening in your network is a great benefit to keep an edge over competitors.”
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Samuel C.

Engineer

Nagios Core support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Chat
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base

Training options

Documentation
Webinars
Videos

Nagios Core FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Nagios Core offer?

Nagios Core has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $0.00
Pricing model: One Time License, Free, Open Source
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of Nagios Core?

Nagios Core has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business


Q. What languages does Nagios Core support?

Nagios Core supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Nagios Core offer an API?

No, Nagios Core does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does Nagios Core offer?

Nagios Core offers the following support options:
Chat, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base

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