Comparison

Last9 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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Last948
Nagios60
Score
vioscaleAI score
Last948 / 100medium · 72%
Nagios60 / 100low · 21%
Pricing
Free tier
Last9✓
Nagios✓
Model
Last9free
Nagiosfreemium
Price level
Last9free
Nagioslow
Transparent
Last9✗
Nagios–
Integrations
Count
Last9100
Nagios4,000
Security
Gdpr
Last9✓
Nagios–
Hipaa
Last9✓
Nagios–
Reliability
Status page
Last9✓
Nagios–
Content
Faq
Last97 items
Nagios5 items

Capabilities

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

Signals
Metrics
Last9✓
Nagios✓
Log management
Last9✓
Nagios✓
Distributed tracing
Last9✓
Nagios-
Application performance monitoring
Last9✓
Nagios✓
Real-user monitoring
Last9✓
Nagios-
Response
Alerting
Last9✓
Nagios✓
On-call / incident management
Last9✓
Nagios✓
Insight
Dashboards
Last9✓
Nagios✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native
Last9✓
Nagios-
Deployment
Hosting
Last9Cloud only
NagiosCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

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

Last9

Last9 enables teams to monitor applications and infrastructure through metrics, logs, and traces collected via OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. It offers service discovery, real-user performance monitoring, threshold-based and anomaly detection alerting, service-level objective tracking, and dashboarding for visibility across cloud infrastructure and applications.

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.

Last9

FreeFree tier
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
Last9✓
Nagios✓
iOS
Last9✓
Nagios✗
Android
Last9✓
Nagios✗
macOS
Last9✗
Nagios✓
Windows
Last9✗
Nagios✓
Linux
Last9✗
Nagios✓
CLI
Last9✓
Nagios✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Last9✓
Nagios✗
Self-hosted
Last9✗
Nagios✓

Integrations

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

In common (10)
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Oracle
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Apache
  • Nginx

Last9

76 total - 66 not shared
  • Opsgenie
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Telegram
  • Zenduty
  • Google Chat
  • Flock
  • Webhook
  • GitHub Actions
  • ArgoCD
  • Buildkite
  • Jenkins
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • ECS
  • Redis
  • DynamoDB
  • RDS
  • S3
  • Cassandra
  • Neo4j
  • +42 more
Independently observed

Nagios

26 total - 16 not shared
  • InfluxDB
  • IIS
  • Tomcat
  • SQL Server
  • LDAP
  • Active Directory
  • JBoss
  • WebLogic
  • Citrix
  • ServiceNow
  • DB2
  • EC2
  • VMware
  • Hyper-V
  • MSSQL
  • IPMI
Independently observed
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