Nagios vs Rollbar

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

Rollbar

Description: Rollbar is an error and exception tracking and reporting software service for web and mobile applications. It provides real-time error monitoring across client- and server-side applications to identify and resolve issues quickly.

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

Rollbar Features

• Real-time error and exception monitoring
• Stack trace linking and deduplication
• Error grouping and analytics
• Alerting and notifications
• Integrations with Slack, PagerDuty, etc.
• Server-side and client-side SDKs
• Source map support
• Customizable error grouping rules

Nagios

• Open Source

Rollbar

• Freemium