# Last9 vs Nagios

| Attribute | Last9 | Nagios |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 48.4 (72% (medium)) | 59.8 (21% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A unified observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus that manages logs, metrics, and traces with high-cardinality storage. It includes AI-assisted incident investigation, real-time alerting, and user monitoring capabilities. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What is Last9?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Is Last9 free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 supports the web, iOS, Android and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What platforms does Last9 support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Last9, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Can Last9 be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 54 integrations for Last9, including Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Zenduty and Google Chat, plus 46 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What does Last9 integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Last9. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Last9 not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What security certifications does Last9 have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the United Kingdom. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Where is Last9 available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"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 | 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. | An open-source platform for monitoring servers, networks, applications, and cloud infrastructure using active polling, with log analysis and visualization capabilities. |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":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 | 100 | 4,000 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Zenduty"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Flock"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"ArgoCD"},{"name":"Buildkite"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"ECS"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"RDS"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"Neo4j"},{"name":"Flask"},{"name":"Django"},{"name":"FastAPI"},{"name":"Express.js"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Spring Boot"},{"name":"Laravel"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"CloudWatch"},{"name":"Loki"},{"name":"Fluent Bit"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"iOS"},{"name":"Android"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"React Native"},{"name":"Grafana Loki","category":"logs"},{"name":"Grafana Tempo","category":"tracing"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS Lambda","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS ECS","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Azure Monitor","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Google Cloud","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Datadog Agent","category":"observability"},{"name":"Elastic Logstash","category":"logs"},{"name":"n8n","category":"workflow"},{"name":"Spinnaker","category":"ci_cd"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude Cowork","category":"ai"},{"name":"Grafana","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"iac","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Argo Rollouts","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS CloudFront","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Fastly","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Akamai","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud Functions","native":true,"category":"compute","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Apache","native":true,"category":"web_server","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Nginx","native":true,"category":"web_server","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"MariaDB","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Cloudflare","native":true,"category":"cdn","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":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://last9.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:06:22.032Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nagios.org","retrievedAt":"2026-10-06T11:28:57.917Z","freeTrialDays":30}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | free | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Last9 | 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 2026-10-16T20:13:00.562Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*