Are you currently searching for an alternative to Nagios? Here are a few "must haves" of any server monitoring solution you choose.

1. Top 5 Nagios Replacement Must Haves

2. What Makes a Good Alternative to Nagios?
 Nagios has been a critical “getting started” monitoring system
 A large user base has voiced many Nagios likes, dislikes, for its
strengths and weaknesses
 Five distinct needs are driving migrations from Nagios
1. Better User Interface
2. Easier Deployment, Maintenance, & Integrations
3. Improved Analytics, Alerting, Reporting, & Historical Data
4. Mobile Apps
5. Reduced Hardware Costs

3. #1 Better User Interface
 The Nagios UI designed to be a basic, utilitarian console
 Supports lowest common denominator of monitoring
 Most operations teams responsible for service levels and uptime
have specific needs
 A more modern UI, purpose-built for cloud monitoring
 Typical “uh-oh” events trigger Nagios replacement search
 An outage occurred and Nagios limitations hung you out to dry
 Original Nagios developer left the company – now what?
 Your business has matured to the point you need a monitoring
solution you can count on – one that is fully supported and was
professionally engineered with a UI to match.
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4. #2 Easier Deployment, Maintenance, & Integrations
 Nagios has been a DIY dream and a cool hobby shop project
 But you must have the time and inclination to manage your own
management system
 Installation and customization time
 Usually measured in days or weeks, not minutes or seconds.
 “It's going to take you a long time to get used to setting up Nagios to
begin with…”
 Ongoing maintenance costs and integration pain
 Developer takes ownership of ongoing maintenance, customization,
and integrations
 For example, Puppet, Chef, HipChat, GitHub, PagerDuty, Campfire,
Twitter DM integrations are possible, with work

5. #3 Improved Analytics, Alerting, Reporting, & Historical Data
 What does it take to make your monitoring job easier?
 Features that automate and simplify the troubleshooting process: auto-trending, system
and app health, alerts when you have a problem, and historical analytics
 Context: the essential cloud monitoring weapon
 Allows you to look back in time determine what else was going on at the same time
 How easy is it to determine were other systems in the same AWS region or availability
zone having problems?
 What about other similar systems in the same cluster?
 What’s happening with the related instances supporting the same application?
 Nagios not designed for automation and simplification
 Doesn’t automate the tagging, presentation, alerting, and reporting that’s required to
simplify and accelerate the troubleshooting process.

6. #4 Mobile Apps
 Lack of a full-featured Nagios mobile app can be a non-starter
 Push-based, native iOS app or native Android app is a must-have for most devops
 A few mobile solutions for Nagios do exist
 Lack the requisite depth and flexibility for everyday
 The more you customize Nagios, harder it is to get mobile support

7. #5 Reduced Hardware Cost
 Problem #1: dedicating a Nagios cloud server instance inside AWS, etc.
 Monitoring your own cloud infrastructure with your own cloud infrastructure
is dangerous
 Taking on risks that monitoring is designed to reduce
 Problem #2: paying for the instance plus managing the software, too
 Problem #3: no resilience to network accessibility or local outages
 Would need to build in redundancy across zones and regions
 Problem #4: no customer experience or real user monitoring view
available that looks from the outside back in.

8. How Do I Learn More?
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