Nagios XI vs PulseBoard
Nagios XI
nagios.com
PulseBoard
pulseboard.cloudSide by side
| Figure | Nagios XI | PulseBoard |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 9 | 0 |
| Spec score · Metrics Monitoring Tools | 9.0 (#5) | 7.0 (#32) |
| Alerting | Alerts can use email, Twilio or Multi-Tech SMS, Slack, Discord and SNMP traps, with acknowledgements, downtime, dependencies and escalations. | Users can configure alert routing in a self-hosted workspace. |
| Dashboards | Smart Dashboards provide graph, gauge, pie, treemap, data-table, heatmap, text and URL dashlets with role or group filtering. | Users can explore dashboards in a self-hosted workspace. |
| Deployment | 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. | The hosted cloud product is being retired; PulseBoard remains available to self-host. |
| License | Nagios commercial software is proprietary; the terms grant a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable license for permitted internal use, while third-party components have separate licenses. | The project is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. |
| Support | 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. | The site says no hosted service or support SLA is offered for the project. |
Plans
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
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.
PulseBoard
PulseBoard has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.