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Comparison

Nagios vs Sematext

No leader: the top candidate Nagios has only 0.17 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.

Nagios full profile →Sematext full profile →
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Nagios100
Sematext69
Score
Vioscale score
Nagios100 / 100low · 17%
Sematext69 / 100low · 49%
Pricing
Free tier
Nagios✓
Sematext✓
Model
Nagiosopen_source
Sematextfreemium
Price level
Nagiosfree
Sematextlow
Transparent
Nagios–
Sematext✓
Integrations
Count
Nagios4,000
Sematext100
Reliability
Status page
Nagios–
Sematext✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Nagios

A free, community-supported monitoring system that helps organizations detect infrastructure issues and prevent downtime by monitoring servers, networks, applications, and services. It offers a modular plugin architecture for extensibility and includes optional web-based dashboards and visualization tools.

Independently observed

Sematext

Cloud-based and self-hosted observability solution that integrates infrastructure monitoring, log management, distributed tracing, and synthetic monitoring in a unified interface. Offers per-product, per-host, or per-monitor billing with no hidden overage charges.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Nagios

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Sematext

from $2/moUsage-basedFree tier14-day trial

From $2.8/host/month for infrastructure monitoring. 14-day free trial, no commitment. Metered pricing with no overage charges.

  • LogsFrom $5/month
    • Log ingestion
    • Log analytics
    • Searching and filtering
  • Infra MonitoringFrom $2.8/host/month
    • Host metrics
    • Container monitoring
    • System performance
  • Service MonitoringFrom $8.64/month
  • TracingFrom $19/month
  • SyntheticsFrom $2/monitor/month
    • API monitoring
    • Uptime monitoring
    • Performance monitoring
  • Synthetics Standard$29/month
  • Synthetics Pro$99/month
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Nagios✓
Sematext✓
macOS
Nagios✓
Sematext✗
Windows
Nagios✓
Sematext✗
Linux
Nagios✓
Sematext✗
CLI
Nagios✓
Sematext✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Nagios✗
Sematext✓
Self-hosted
Nagios✓
Sematext✓
On-premise
Nagios✓
Sematext✗

Integrations

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

Nagios

26 total
  • Grafana
  • InfluxDB
  • Prometheus
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • IIS
  • Tomcat
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • LDAP
  • Active Directory
  • JBoss
  • WebLogic
  • Citrix
  • PagerDuty
  • Slack
  • ServiceNow
  • DB2
  • EC2
  • VMware
  • Hyper-V
  • +2 more
Independently observed

Sematext

14 total
  • Syslog
  • Angular
  • Custom Webhooks
  • Kubernetes
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Akka
  • Ember
  • Next.js
  • Elasticsearch
  • Logstash
  • Kibana
  • Apache Solr
  • OpenSearch
Independently observed

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