Nagios vs SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
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.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for network monitoring. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
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.
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
A comprehensive observability solution that monitors network performance, servers, applications, and infrastructure across hybrid environments. It provides real-time visibility through automated network mapping, flow analysis, and anomaly detection to help IT teams maintain uptime and optimize performance.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
From $8/node/month, billed annually. 30-day free trial available.
- Essentials$8/node/month, billed annually
- Network performance monitoring
- Server and application management
- Log monitoring and analysis
- IP address monitoring and management
- User and device tracking
- +2 more
- Advanced$14/node/month, billed annually
- Network performance monitoring
- Server and application management
- Log monitoring and analysis
- IP address monitoring and management
- User and device tracking
- +8 more
- Premier$17.50/node/month, billed annually, includes SaaS capabilities
- Network performance monitoring
- Server and application management
- Log monitoring and analysis
- IP address monitoring and management
- User and device tracking
- +12 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Nagios
- 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
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
- Zulip
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.