# Chronosphere vs Nagios

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Chronosphere

| Attribute | Chronosphere | Nagios |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 75.9 (47% (low)) | 59.8 (21% (low)) |
| content.faq | - | `[{"answer":"A free, open-source monitoring system that tracks the health and performance of IT infrastructure including servers, networks, and applications, providing real-time visibility and alerting to prevent downtime. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://www.nagios.org","question":"What is Nagios?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Nagios is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.nagios.org","question":"Is Nagios free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Nagios supports the web, Windows, macOS and Linux. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.nagios.org","question":"What platforms does Nagios support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Nagios can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.nagios.org","question":"Can Nagios be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 26 integrations for Nagios, including Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Apache, Nginx, IIS, Tomcat and MySQL, plus 18 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.nagios.org","question":"What does Nagios integrate with?","confidence":0.6}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud-native observability platform designed for Kubernetes environments that uses AI to rapidly identify root causes, manage incidents, and cut observability data costs by filtering low-value data volumes while preserving critical insights. | An open-source platform for monitoring servers, networks, applications, and cloud infrastructure using active polling, with log analysis and visualization capabilities. |
| features.capabilities | `{"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"apm":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"open_source":true,"snmp_polling":true,"netflow_sflow_ipfix":true,"cloud_vpc_monitoring":true,"auto_discovery_topology":true,"config_backup_change_mgmt":true,"synthetic_active_monitoring":true}` |
| integrations.count | 65 | 4,000 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Prometheus","native":true,"category":"metrics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Fluent Bit","native":true,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Datadog","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"New Relic","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Splunk","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Elasticsearch","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Grafana Loki","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Dynatrace","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Monitor","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Operations Suite","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Kafka","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"OpenSearch","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Graylog","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"InfluxDB","native":false,"category":"metrics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"VictoriaMetrics","native":false,"category":"metrics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Slack","native":false,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Coralogix","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Sumo Logic","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Scalyr","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Fluentd","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Telegraf","native":false,"category":"metrics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Clickhouse","native":false,"category":"data","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Oracle","native":false,"category":"data","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Chronicle","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Crowdstrike","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon S3","native":false,"category":"storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Big Query","native":false,"category":"data","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage","native":false,"category":"storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Sentinel","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Confluent Cloud","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Redpanda Cloud","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Cloudflare","native":false,"category":"cdn","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud PubSub","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Event Hub","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon Kinesis","native":false,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Okta System Logs Collector","native":false,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Intune – Audit event","native":false,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Mandiant ASM","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Exabeam","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Signal Sciences","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Workspace Audit","native":false,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Splunk HEC","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Devo Cloud","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Axiom","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Observe","native":false,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vercel Logs","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"InfluxDB"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Apache"},{"name":"Nginx"},{"name":"IIS"},{"name":"Tomcat"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"SQL Server"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"LDAP"},{"name":"Active Directory"},{"name":"JBoss"},{"name":"WebLogic"},{"name":"Citrix"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"DB2"},{"name":"EC2"},{"name":"VMware"},{"name":"Hyper-V"},{"name":"MSSQL"},{"name":"IPMI"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | - | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"hybrid","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nagios.org","retrievedAt":"2026-10-06T11:28:57.917Z","freeTrialDays":30}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | - | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | - | low |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://chronosphere.io/security-overview/ | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Chronosphere | Nagios |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Signals** |  |  |
| Metrics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Log management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ | - |
| Application performance monitoring | - | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | - | - |
| **Response** |  |  |
| Alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-call / incident management | - | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Dashboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry-native | ✓ | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:27:59.384Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*