Nagios vs New Relic

Nagios

Description: Nagios is an open-source monitoring system that allows administrators to monitor network infrastructure like servers, switches, applications, and services. It can notify users when issues arise and help identify problems in a timely manner.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

New Relic

Description: New Relic is a performance monitoring software for applications. It allows developers to track and monitor application performance in real-time to detect and diagnose issues. New Relic provides insights into app load times, throughput, errors, and more.

Type: software

Pricing: Freemium

Nagios Features

• Monitoring of network services (HTTP, SMTP, POP3, ICMP, etc)
• Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage, etc)
• Simple plugin design for easy extensibility
• Alerting and notification when problems arise
• Web interface for viewing current network status, alerts and reports
• Support for SNMP polling for switch/router monitoring
• Remote monitoring capabilities with secure tunneling

New Relic Features

• Real-time performance monitoring
• Error and exception tracking
• Transaction tracing
• Cross-application tracing
• Alerting and notifications
• Custom dashboards
• Log management
• Browser monitoring
• Mobile monitoring

Nagios

• Open Source

New Relic

• Freemium