Best Alternative to Nagios Monitoring
If you have outgrown Nagios, are looking for Nagios alternatives,
or have experienced any of the below Nagios issues, it’s time to switch to CopperEgg Monitoring.
| Capability | CopperEgg | Nagios |
|---|---|---|
| User Interface | Unified dashboard, real-time graphs, charts, reports | “Ugly” GUI, difficult to use |
| Security | Push-based stats avoid firewall issues | Poll-based monitoring requires firewall changes |
| Real-Time | 5-second details finds hidden problems fast | 1-minute averages miss performance spikes |
| Hardware Costs | SaaS-based, no hardware costs | Pay for hardware, electricity, maintenance |
| Redundancy | Multiple high availability datacenters, externally hosted | Pay for redundancy, internal view – when you are down, your monitoring is down |
| Outside-in View | Monitor from outside-in (website) and inside-out (server) | No customer experience or outside view |
| iPhone, iPad, Android push, SMS | Built-in | Add-on |
| Historical Data | 1 yr data retention including process data | Add-on |
| Network Resilience | Alerts when you lose power or network | Prone to network or power outages |
| Maintenance Costs | None | People & system costs ongoing |
| Operations Costs | None | People & system costs ongoing |
| Ease of Install | 10-second install | Not 10-seconds, perhaps days or weeks |
| Tagging | Alerts, dashboards, user views | Do it yourself |
| Analytics | Health, uptime, and aggregate metrics | Do it yourself |
| Correlation | Correlate across server, system, and web app performance | Do it yourself |
| API, Webhooks, Integrations | Out-of-the-box API, integrations with GitHub, Puppet, Chef, PagerDuty, HipChat, Campfire, or add your own | Assembly required |
| Annotations | Auto-annotations on graphs, annotation API | None |
| Custom Dashboards | Choose what to display for all metrics, servers and websites | None |
| Custom Metrics | Monitor, analyze, view, and alert any metric, any app | None |
