Top 5 Nagios Replacement Must Haves

What Makes a Good Alternative to Nagios?

Nagios has been a critical “getting started” monitoring system A large user base has voiced many Nagios likes, dislikes, for its

strengths and weaknesses Five distinct needs are driving migrations from Nagios

1. Better User Interface2. Easier Deployment, Maintenance, & Integrations3. Improved Analytics, Alerting, Reporting, & Historical Data4. Mobile Apps5. Reduced Hardware Costs

#1 Better User Interface

The Nagios UI designed to be a basic, utilitarian console Supports lowest common denominator of monitoring

Most operations teams responsible for service levels and uptime have specific needs A more modern UI, purpose-built for cloud monitoring

Typical “uh-oh” events trigger Nagios replacement search An outage occurred and Nagios limitations hung you out to dry Original Nagios developer left the company – now what? Your business has matured to the point you need a monitoring solution you

can count on – one that is fully supported and was professionally engineered with a UI to match.

1 The 5 key impacts analyze IDC’s key 2013 predictions and analyze the resulting impact on IT management

#2 Easier Deployment, Maintenance, & Integrations

Nagios has been a DIY dream and a cool hobby shop project But you must have the time and inclination to manage your own management

system

Installation and customization time Usually measured in days or weeks, not minutes or seconds. “It's going to take you a long time to get used to setting up Nagios to begin

with…”

Ongoing maintenance costs and integration pain Developer takes ownership of ongoing maintenance, customization, and

integrations For example, Puppet, Chef, HipChat, GitHub, PagerDuty, Campfire, Twitter DM

integrations are possible, with work

#3 Improved Analytics, Alerting, Reporting, & Historical Data

What does it take to make your monitoring job easier? Features that automate and simplify the troubleshooting process: auto-trending, system

and app health, alerts when you have a problem, and historical analytics

Context: the essential cloud monitoring weapon Allows you to look back in time determine what else was going on at the same time How easy is it to determine were other systems in the same AWS region or availability

zone having problems? What about other similar systems in the same cluster? What’s happening with the related instances supporting the same application?

Nagios not designed for automation and simplification Doesn’t automate the tagging, presentation, alerting, and reporting that’s required to

simplify and accelerate the troubleshooting process.

#4 Mobile Apps Lack of a full-featured Nagios mobile app can be a non-starter

Push-based, native iOS app or native Android app is a must-have for most devops

A few mobile solutions for Nagios do exist Lack the requisite depth and flexibility for everyday The more you customize Nagios, harder it is to get mobile support

#5 Reduced Hardware Cost Problem #1: dedicating a Nagios cloud server instance inside AWS, etc.

Monitoring your own cloud infrastructure with your own cloud infrastructure is dangerous

Taking on risks that monitoring is designed to reduce

Problem #2: paying for the instance plus managing the software, too

Problem #3: no resilience to network accessibility or local outages Would need to build in redundancy across zones and regions

Problem #4: no customer experience or real user monitoring view available that looks from the outside back in.

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