Better Stack vs Nagios
On the evidence we track, Better Stack leads this comparison with a composite score of 66/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for observability tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Better Stack
LeaderCloud-native observability platform that consolidates log management, metrics, distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring, and incident management with built-in on-call scheduling and AI-powered incident investigation capabilities.
Nagios
An open-source platform for monitoring servers, networks, applications, and cloud infrastructure using active polling, with log analysis and visualization capabilities.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Better Stack
LeaderFree tier for personal projects. Paid plans start at $29/month billed annually with per-component metered pricing.
- FreeFree
- 10 monitors & heartbeats
- 1 status page
- Slack & e-mail alerts
- 100,000 exceptions per month
- 3 GB logs retained for 3 days
- +1 more
- Standard with Single Responder$34/month or $29/month billed annually
- Single responder with unlimited phone call alerts
- Incident management
- On-call scheduling
- Monitoring
- Status pages
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
- Grafana
- Prometheus
Better Stack
Leader- Microsoft Teams
- Linear
- GitHub
- Datadog
- Notion
- Sentry
- Zapier
- Zabbix
- Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- New Relic
- Mixpanel
- Intercom
- Front
- Drift
- Terraform Provider
- Terraform
- Helm
- NLog
- OpenTelemetry
- Google Calendar
- Outlook Calendar
- Webhooks
- +4 more
Nagios
- InfluxDB
- Apache
- Nginx
- IIS
- Tomcat
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- JBoss
- WebLogic
- Citrix
- PagerDuty
- ServiceNow
- DB2
- EC2
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- MSSQL
- IPMI
Better Stack or Nagios: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.