Author Archives: Mary Serie

It’s one of the most common questions we receive: Nagios Core vs. Nagios XI; what’s the difference? System administrators often find themselves comparing the Nagios Core tool, our open-source infrastructure monitoring to the Nagios XI product, our enterprise infrastructure monitoring … Read More

Maximizing flexibility and productivity with IT infrastructure monitoring solutions As companies respond to their customers and the industry environment, IT departments must scale up or down appropriately. There may be new devices and platforms to be monitored, sudden regulatory challenges … Read More

Growing companies need their IT infrastructure monitoring solution to scale with them. Scaling an open-source solution, like Nagios Core, can be challenging because of the time and expertise required to add new devices and troubleshoot issues. When companies reach a … Read More

Company growth creates new challenges for IT departments. Growth means more things to track (servers, network devices, platforms) and new strategies to effectively monitor them.  Solutions that enable wizard-driven configuration plus bulk object cloning and modification make scaling your IT … Read More

Passing the Torch: Transitioning Nagios XI to a new user One of the most significant benefits of using Nagios for IT infrastructure monitoring and reporting is that it’s become so popular that it’s now a skill included on resumes and … Read More

Choosing a Custom Monitoring Solution for IT Infrastructure Success Talk to any systems administrator, and they’ll tell you that no two IT environments are the same. Even organizations selling similar products to the same industry can have IT environments that … Read More

Nagios Core has millions of loyal users — and for good reasons. It’s a powerful open-source IT infrastructure monitoring and alerting tool with no licensing fee. However, the tool is highly technical, which could make scaling it difficult for growing … Read More

Nagios Core to Nagios XI: A roadmap for making the upgrade   IMPORTANT NOTE: As of Nagios XI 5.8, users now have the ability to automatically migrate their Nagios Core data to Nagios XI. See “Automatically Migrating Nagios Core to … Read More

Nagios’ robust user community and support forums are what drew millions of Nagios Core users to the open-source IT infrastructure monitoring and alerting product. Users join the online community to ask for help with their Nagios configurations, troubleshoot problems, share … Read More

We want to make launching a new IT infrastructure monitoring solution as seamless as possible for system administrators and their teams. We created many resources on how to launch Nagios XI to help users start monitoring quickly and effectively. In … Read More