Comparison

Nagios vs Sumo Logic

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.

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Nagios100
Sumo Logic54
Score
Vioscale score
Nagios100 / 100low · 17%
Sumo Logic54 / 100medium · 61%
Pricing
Free tier
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Model
Sumo Logiccommercial
Price level
Nagiosfree
Sumo Logicunknown
Transparent
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Integrations
Count
Nagios4,000
Sumo Logic20
Security
Fedramp
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Iso27001
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Pci
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Soc2
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Reliability
Status page
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

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

Sumo Logic

A cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform that collects telemetry data from various sources and provides dashboards, real-time alerts, and machine-learning-driven insights to help organizations troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues.

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 ↗

Sumo Logic

Subscription30-day trial

30-day free trial. Unlimited users. Predictable pricing.

  • EssentialsFree
  • Enterprise SuiteContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Nagios
Sumo Logic
macOS
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Windows
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Linux
Nagios
Sumo Logic
CLI
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Nagios
Sumo Logic
Self-hosted
Nagios
Sumo Logic
On-premise
Nagios
Sumo Logic

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Prometheus

Nagios

26 total - 25 not shared
  • Grafana
  • InfluxDB
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • IIS
  • Tomcat
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • LDAP
  • Active Directory
  • JBoss
  • WebLogic
  • Citrix
  • PagerDuty
  • Slack
  • ServiceNow
  • DB2
  • EC2
  • VMware
  • Hyper-V
  • MSSQL
  • +1 more
Independently observed

Sumo Logic

20 total - 19 not shared
  • AWS Lambda
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • FluentD
  • JavaScript
  • Jenkins
  • Kinesis
  • Logback
  • Logstash
  • Log4J
  • Log4j2
  • Maven
  • .NET
  • Okta
  • Scala
  • CollectD
  • StatsD
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Kubernetes
Independently observed

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