Chronosphere Observability Platform vs Nagios XI
Chronosphere Observability Platform
chronosphere.io
Nagios XI
nagios.comSide by side
| Figure | Chronosphere Observability Platform | Nagios XI |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 9 |
| Spec score · Container Monitoring | 8.3 (#13) | 9.0 (#4) |
| Spec score · Monitoring Observability | 8.3 (#9) | 9.0 (#3) |
| Deployment | The Observability Platform is a SaaS service; customer environments deploy Chronosphere collectors, while Chronosphere manages the datastore and dashboards. | Nagios XI is self-hosted on Linux and offers virtual machine images for VMware Workstation, Oracle VirtualBox, VMware ESXi and vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V. |
| Founded | Chronosphere’s 2019 launch announcement says the company formally launched on November 5, 2019. | 2007 |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States | St. Paul, Minnesota, United States |
| Integrations | Telemetry Pipeline supports more than 70 out-of-the-box integrations, including Datadog, Fluent Bit, Splunk, Amazon S3, and Azure Event Grid. | Nagios XI supports authentication with Active Directory or LDAP over SSL, Single Sign-On with Microsoft Entra ID, and two-factor authentication through Duo. |
| Support | Customer support includes 24/7/365 communication by Slack, Zendesk, or email, plus customer success resources and optional office hours. | A paid license includes the first year of Maintenance & Support, version upgrades, up to ten support cases, Support Portal access, Premium features, and an assigned Customer Success Manager. |
| What it does | Chronosphere is a cloud native observability platform that provides insights across infrastructure, applications, and business systems. | Nagios XI is commercial infrastructure monitoring software that executes threshold-based checks on servers, network devices, applications and services, records results and sends notifications. |
Plans
Chronosphere Observability Platform
- Chronosphere Observability PlatformPriced on request
Nagios XI
- Standard — 100 Nodes$2,595, paid once
- Enterprise — 100 Nodes$4,690, paid once
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Standard$2,595, paid once
- Standard (100-Node)$2,595, paid once
- Enterprise$4,690, paid once
- Enterprise (100-Node)$4,690, paid once
- SitewidePriced on request
In their own words
Chronosphere Observability Platform
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Nagios XI
Nagios XI monitors servers, network devices, applications and services from a Linux server you manage. It checks configured thresholds, records results and sends notifications. Standard includes more than 90 configuration wizards, auto-discovery, dashboards, performance graphs, an open REST API, automation, configuration rollback and snapshots. Enterprise adds SLA and capacity-planning reports, scheduled reports and pages, business process intelligence, bulk changes and an audit log. Users can be restricted to assigned host and service groups, with authentication options including Active Directory or LDAP over SSL, Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on and Duo two-factor authentication. It is self-hosted on Linux, with virtual machine images for several hypervisors and offline installation on Red Hat and CentOS Stream. A 30-day trial provides unlimited monitoring, Enterprise features and direct support without a credit card. The free plan is limited to 7 nodes or 100 services, whichever comes first. Paid perpetual licenses are priced by monitored nodes: Standard is $2,595.00 once and Enterprise is $4,690.00 once, each shown for 100 nodes.