Network Monitoring Application of the Year
 

What is your network monitoring application of choice?

--jeremy

Still using Icinga/Nagios and occasionally Zabbix. Might switch to Sensu in the coming year.

Where is wireshark?????

Zabbix

Nagios XI!

bmon

Nagios!
 

Nagios it is (both Nagios Core and Nagios XI) :-)

I am contemplating between ZENOSS and Nagios

I used to work with Nagios but since I knew about ICINGA, man its better than nagios.

I love nagios but Icinga seems cooler, easier and looks are preety good.

i am using Nagios

Nagiooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos!

Nagios
 

Nagios (Nagios XI)

NagiosXI !

wireshark isnt a network monitor, its a packet capture tool. its functionality doesn't qualify it for this poll.

(and nagios totally beats down everything else on this list!)

Hands down...Nagios
 

Nagios Core and Nagios XI are the BEST!

Kinda funny how many nagios imposters are on the list. Been using nagios for years, and recently changed to nagios xi. Love it!

P.S. Yes, I know many on the list are technically "forks", but fork==imposter==knock off==not the real thing :)

Mate System Monitor/Network Monitor applets
 

I really don't need anything fancy. :-) Just want to see what my up/down traffic looks like!

Nagios

thanks for putting icinga into this years poll again - we are more than just a nagios fork, and icinga2 will shine in 2013 even brighter :-)

Gotta hand it to nagios.

zabbix, many years

zabbix++

great feature set out of the box, great support (forums, irc)

Centreon!

Zabbix seems like a good choice.

Zabbix

zabbix

Zabbix!

I would also consider Zabbix as a best choice for monitoring your infrastrucure

Obviously Nagios
 

I cant believe some of the replies. They must be people from the companies in the poll, because anyone that knows anything about infrastructure monitoring knows Nagios is the solution of choice. Probably the same reason there are so many products that claim to be "based on Nagios"....

have been working with nagios, never really liked it, but didn't see much alternatives back in the day... today there are nicer tools, i prefer zabbix eg.

nagios ..

I voted for nagios.

Absolutely agree. Zabbix FTW!

Still a fan of Nagios.

I know it's technically an add-on for Nagios (and its derivatives), but I think check_mk deserves a mention. Also icinga, if only for the ability to act on multiple items at once.

Groundwork / Nagis
 

Groundwork based on nagios

Groundwork
 

I vote for Groundwork.

GroundWork
 

Working with GroundWork

Nagios Core rules!!
None other is that free configurable and expandable!!
Christian

+1 Nagios. It's ugly, it does not scale easily, configuration maintenance is a pain.
Yet its primitivity is its biggest plus:
If it complains, you can easily understand *why*. So you can rely on it. Which really is the most important thing.
And it's dead easy to put together a new plug-in for any specific problem. Again, because the API is so primi... elegant :)

Zabbix looks certainly nicer at first; but I cannot understand how *external* PHP plugins could possibly scale.

Zenoss also looks nicer, but I find the big Zope black box in the middle anything than easy to understand or trustable.

OpenNMS carries the scalability crown. But you also have to believe that all the Java and Postgres magic gets it right. Always. And custom monitoring you need to map to SNMP.

Monitoring in today's environments
 

Nagios is great in monitoring traditional more static servers and applications (db,mail) setups, but it fails short in dynamic (virtual) environments. The need to restart each time the configuration changes makes it hard to use in today's hybrid environments (private/public cloud & data centers).

Nagios had a long run as "the monitoring tool" but is time to look at tools that are more adapted to today's environments. GroundWork Monitor and Zabbix are better tools than Nagios to address today's needs.

I only have xosview, so, not voting. This one is handy but, there might be other's. I don't know.

NetXMS!

nagios in combination with centreon

Don´t mix up Nagios
 

I voted for Nagios, Not Nagios XI. That´s 2 different things! Nagios is a cool os project. There is like 10 products out there based on Nagios with a commercial touch. The most common is Op5, Opsview and Nagios XI. So please don´t mix up our votes please! I don´t see any Nagios XI in the chart, so from my point of view XI didn't get a single vote! Sorry, but true!

I´m sure people voted here voted for the project Nagios!

Just my comment! Nagios Core user