# LibreNMS vs Nagios

| Attribute | LibreNMS | Nagios |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 44.3 (19% (low)) | 100 (17% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 2 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 4,848 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Automatically identifies and monitors networked devices with customizable alerts and API integration. Provides mobile applications for remote monitoring and includes billing and reporting functionality. | 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,"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 | 3 | 4,000 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"IRC"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| language.primary | PHP | - |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nagios.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-16T21:32:30.252Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | - | free |
| release.cadence_days | 27 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.8.1","date":"2026-08-19T09:29:18Z","type":"stable","version":"26.8.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.8.0","date":"2026-08-17T15:56:42Z","type":"stable","version":"26.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.7.0","date":"2026-07-20T15:51:02Z","type":"stable","version":"26.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.6.1","date":"2026-06-17T14:30:02Z","type":"stable","version":"26.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.6.0","date":"2026-06-15T07:02:39Z","type":"stable","version":"26.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.5.1","date":"2026-05-20T10:00:21Z","type":"stable","version":"26.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.5.0","date":"2026-05-18T07:56:06Z","type":"stable","version":"26.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.4.1","date":"2026-04-22T20:51:08Z","type":"stable","version":"26.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.4.0","date":"2026-04-20T05:50:05Z","type":"stable","version":"26.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.3.1","date":"2026-03-17T09:25:35Z","type":"stable","version":"26.3.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.3.0","date":"2026-03-16T11:02:41Z","type":"stable","version":"26.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.2.0","date":"2026-02-16T12:15:13Z","type":"stable","version":"26.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.1.1","date":"2026-01-12T23:26:02Z","type":"stable","version":"26.1.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/26.1.0","date":"2026-01-12T11:55:12Z","type":"stable","version":"26.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/25.12.0","date":"2025-12-15T14:06:00Z","type":"stable","version":"25.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/25.11.0","date":"2025-11-17T13:29:57Z","type":"stable","version":"25.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/25.10.0","date":"2025-10-15T08:33:34Z","type":"stable","version":"25.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/25.9.1","date":"2025-09-17T16:25:03Z","type":"stable","version":"25.9.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/25.9.0","date":"2025-09-16T21:50:01Z","type":"stable","version":"25.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/releases/tag/25.8.0","date":"2025-08-18T04:52:12Z","type":"stable","version":"25.8.0"}]` | - |
| security.scorecard | 5.1 | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":100,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=packagist&package_name=librenms%2Flibrenms&per_page=100","last_12m":24,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` | - |

## Capabilities (Network Monitoring)

| Capability | LibreNMS | Nagios |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Snmp polling | - | ✓ |
| Netflow sflow ipfix | - | ✓ |
| Auto discovery topology | - | ✓ |
| Wifi monitoring | - | - |
| Sdwan monitoring | - | - |
| Synthetic active monitoring | - | - |
| Config backup change mgmt | - | ✓ |
| Cloud VPC monitoring | - | ✓ |
| Multi tenant msp | - | - |
| Anomaly detection | - | - |
| Open source | - | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:51:44.795Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*