Nagios XI vs PRTG

ManageEngine Applications Manager

Site24x7

ManageEngine OpManager

Applications Manager is an application performance monitoring and observability solution that is designed to empower businesses with deep insights into the performance, health, and availability of their critical applications and infrastructure components.

Site24x7 is a monitoring solution for DevOps and IT operations for troubleshooting applications, servers and network infrastructure

OpManager is an easy-to-use network management product that offers a single console solution to manage the complete IT network of any organization.

Monitor your IT infrastructure, spot problems before they occur, know immediately when problems arise, share availability data with stakeholders, detect security breaches, plan & budget for IT upgrades, reduce downtime & business losses

Access Controls/Permissions

Activity Dashboard

Alerts/Escalation

Alerts/Notifications

Anomaly Detection

Application-Level Analysis

Audit Management

Audit Trail

Automated Discovery

Automated Scheduling

Bandwidth Monitoring

Baseline Manager

Capacity Management

Capacity Planning

Compliance Management

Container Monitoring

Customizable Dashboard

Customizable Reports

Dashboard

Dashboard Creation

Database Monitoring

Data Storage Management

Data Visualization

Dependency Tracking

Diagnostic Tools

Email Alerts

Email Monitoring

Event Logs

Event Tracking

Incident Management

IP Address Monitoring

Issue Auditing

Maintenance Scheduling

Monitoring

Multitenancy

Network Analysis

Network Monitoring

Network Resource Management

Performance Metrics

Performance Monitoring

Predictive Analytics

Real-Time Data

Real-Time Monitoring

Real-Time Notifications

Real-Time Reporting

Remote Access/Control

Remote Monitoring & Management

Reporting/Analytics

Reporting & Statistics

Role-Based Permissions

Secure Data Storage

Server Monitoring

Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management

Single Sign On

SSL Security

Status Tracking

Summary Reports

Third-Party Integrations

Threshold Alerts

Transaction Monitoring

Trend Analysis

Troubleshooting

Uptime Reporting

User Management

Virtualization

Virtual Machine Monitoring

Visual Analytics

Web Traffic Reporting

Open Source

Nagios XI

Web-based

Windows

Linux

PRTG

Zabbix

SolarWinds Service Desk

Free Edition

Standard Edition

Enterprise Edition

Sitewide

Engineer

Nagios XI can be quite complex to set up the first time you use it.

DevOps

The GUI doesn't seem to be most updated and some of the features are hard to find (UX issue)

Nagios XI was easy to setup (from the tools we tested), although it has many plugins you can always and easily create your own plugin (anything that is measurable), it has good alerting system when it comes to emails, seems like the GUI/UX could have been more modern but overall experience is very good.

Certain features doesn't help you get down to the root-cause of the issues and investigation has to be done outside the tool.

User Interface

Ease of Use

Pricing

Freelancers

Small Business

Large Enterprises

Mid-size Business

Nagios Enterprises

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer

NetFlow Analyzer is a flow-based bandwidth management tool that monitors, collects and analyzes traffic to find performance bottlenecks and security threats. Despite the organization's size, admins can know the who, what and how of bandwidth usage with real-time tracking and traffic trends reporting

Lead engineer monitoring and automation IT

Although they have a good knowledge base and related documentation, there is a lack of support for the customer who has purchased a license they should have more real time support by connecting through any tool and seeing the error without so much documentation or evidence that is sometimes required by other means and more support for configurations and troubleshooting or configuration.

Account Executive

What my customers like most about PRTG is that it allows them to maintain a general overview of their overall infrastructure.

PRTG monitors your network 24/7 to timely alert you to issues before they become emergencies.

Monitor all the systems, devices, traffic, and applications in your IT infrastructure.

Everything is included with PRTG; there is no need for additional plugins or downloads.

PRTG is a powerful and easy!

Activity Tracking

Bottleneck Identification

Configuration Management

Connectivity Management

Continuous Monitoring

CPU Monitoring

Customizable Branding

Data Collection

Data Connectors

Data Import/Export

Data Management

Device Auto Discovery

Device Management

Downtime Tracking

Drag & Drop

Event Analysis

Event Triggered Actions

For MSPs

Inventory Management

Issue Management

Issue Tracking

IT Asset Management

IT Asset Tracking

IT Incident Management

IT Reporting

License Management

Multi-Location Monitoring

Multiple Data Sources

Network Mapping

Patch Management

Policy Management

Power Management

Prioritization

Real-time Alerts

Real-Time Analytics

Real-Time Updates

Resource Management

Risk Alerts

Search/Filter

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Usage Tracking/Analytics

Visualization

Vulnerability Scanning

By industry, PRTG reviewers are most commonly professionals in information technology and services (15%). The most frequent use case for PRTG cited by reviewers is network monitoring (76% of reviewers).

Users and use cases

Reviewers appreciate the fully featured version and free trial, which they say help evaluate suitability. Some users find PRTG cost-effective and flexible, but some report high costs for small setups and recent pricing changes.

Value for money

PRTG is a network monitoring solution offering key features such as alerts/notifications, real-time monitoring, server monitoring, and network analysis, among others.

Proprietary

Android

iPhone

Chromebook

iPad

Network Performance Monitor

WhatsUp Gold

Datadog

Splunk Enterprise

Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk

PRTG 500

PRTG 1000

PRTG 2500

PRTG 5000

PRTG 10000

Systems Engineer

The licensing structure recently changed to a subscription based one that we can no longer afford, or at least made us look at similar alternatives that offer more features for the same price point.

Network Security Engineer

The alerting system is solid too; we actually get notified when something matters, not constant false alarms.

IT Manager

Provides dashboards and monitoring for our core systems.

The licensing model can get expensive once you start monitoring more devices.

CISO

The overview that PRTG provides about network health and performance is incredibly important in detecting and resolving a possible security threat at its quickest.

Network Admin

Monitoring, alerting, scheduling, it has most everything needed in a monitoring solution.

Senior System Engineer

We also implement the software in a cluster, so that there is no downtime.  

IT Engineer

Unfortunately free versions supports only 100 sensors.

That can help you figure out what you want to be monitoring.

Programmeur Jouabilité

PRTG made network monitoring straightforward.

Customizable dashboards and real-time alerting enable strong security.

Sr Systems Engineer

It is a really good agentless tool to present monitor graphics of our network devices.

Overall, PRTG has been a solid addition to our monitoring stack.

NOC1 Support Engineer

Based on the criteria of the number of network components (servers, switches, routers, virtual machines) it is necessary to evaluate the type of license which depends on the number of sensors that are required to have absolute vision of all these teams, therefore, the associated costs will rise, although seeing the cost/benefit ratio is justifiable that investment.

IT Consultant

PRTG Monitor is a robust product that allows for our team to monitor networks, ISP connections, and Servers at the offices we manage which a spread out coast to coast.

PROJECT MANAGER

We started using PRTG with the demo and we realized that it had many functionalities such as email notification and others such as being able to monitor the traffic of an interface or the SNMP of a device and we decided to purchase the licensed version and it has been a great choice.

IT System Engineer

I really like the scheduled scanning with templates for specific ip ranges, so that even new servers/devices/components directly are monitored without forgetting them to add.