vioscaleAI
Comparison

Elastic Observability vs Nagios

No leader: the top candidate Nagios has only 0.21 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Elastic Observability58
Nagios60
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elastic Observability58 / 100medium · 53%
Nagios60 / 100low · 21%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic Observability✗
Nagios✓
Model
Elastic Observabilitycommercial
Nagiosfreemium
Price level
Elastic Observabilityunknown
Nagioslow
Transparent
Elastic Observability✗
Nagios–
Integrations
Count
Elastic Observability450
Nagios4,000
Security
Gdpr
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios–
Scorecard
Elastic Observability5.6
Nagios–
Trust center
Elastic Observabilityhttps://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance
Nagios–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic Observability18,551
Nagios–
Github stars
Elastic Observability78,270
Nagios–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic Observability100
Nagios–
Release
History
Elastic Observability20 items
Nagios–
Language
Primary
Elastic ObservabilityJava
Nagios–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Elastic Observability7 items
Nagios5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for observability tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Signals
Metrics
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios✓
Log management
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios✓
Distributed tracing
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios-
Application performance monitoring
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios✓
Real-user monitoring
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios-
Response
Alerting
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios✓
On-call / incident management
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios✓
Insight
Dashboards
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios-
Deployment
Hosting
Elastic ObservabilityCloud + self-hosted
NagiosCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Elastic Observability

A cloud monitoring platform that consolidates logs, metrics, and distributed traces from applications and infrastructure, using AI to help teams identify root causes and resolve incidents faster.

Independently observed

Nagios

An open-source platform for monitoring servers, networks, applications, and cloud infrastructure using active polling, with log analysis and visualization capabilities.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Elastic Observability

Subscription

Subscription-based with Gold, Platinum, and Enterprise tiers available.

  • Gold-
  • Platinum-
  • Enterprise-
as of verify ↗

Nagios

HybridFree tier30-day trial
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios✓
macOS
Elastic Observability✗
Nagios✓
Windows
Elastic Observability✗
Nagios✓
Linux
Elastic Observability✗
Nagios✓
CLI
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic Observability✓
Nagios✗
Self-hosted
Elastic Observability✗
Nagios✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (3)
  • Slack
  • ServiceNow
  • PagerDuty

Elastic Observability

40 total - 37 not shared
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Jina AI
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Mistral
  • Cohere
  • Meta
  • NVIDIA
  • Hugging Face
  • IBM watsonx
  • Alibaba Cloud
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Unstructured.io
  • Aryn
  • Vectorize.io
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Teams
  • xMatters
  • IBM Resilient
  • Webhook
  • AWS S3
  • +13 more
Independently observed

Nagios

26 total - 23 not shared
  • Grafana
  • InfluxDB
  • Prometheus
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • IIS
  • Tomcat
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • LDAP
  • Active Directory
  • JBoss
  • WebLogic
  • Citrix
  • DB2
  • EC2
  • VMware
  • Hyper-V
  • MSSQL
  • IPMI
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Elastic Observability or Nagios: which one depends on you

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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.