# Last9 vs Nagios

| Attribute | Last9 | Nagios |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 48.4 (73% (medium)) | 100 (17% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| 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}` |
| 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"},{"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":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nagios.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-16T21:32:30.252Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | free | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| 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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:10:23.633Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*