Nagios XI vs StatusDrift
Nagios XI
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| Figure | Nagios XI | StatusDrift |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $12,129/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 9 | 4 |
| Spec score · DNS Monitoring Software | 9.0 (#3) | 8.1 (#15) |
| Company history | Nagios Enterprises was founded by Ethan Galstad in 2007 in St. Paul, Minnesota. | StatusDrift says it was founded in 2023 by a team of DevOps engineers. |
| Founded | 2007 | 2023 |
| Integrations | Nagios XI supports authentication with Active Directory or LDAP over SSL, Single Sign-On with Microsoft Entra ID, and two-factor authentication through Duo. | Listed integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Mattermost, Telegram, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Datadog, ServiceNow, Zapier, IFTTT, n8n, and webhooks. |
| 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. | Pricing lists community support on Free, email support on Pro, and priority support on Business. |
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
StatusDrift
- FreeFree
- Pro$12,129 a month
- BusinessPrice not published
- EnterprisePriced 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.
StatusDrift
StatusDrift combines uptime monitoring, status pages, and incident management. It monitors websites, APIs, SSL certificates, DNS and domains, ping, TCP ports, and cron or heartbeat jobs, with checks from multiple regions. Status pages support custom branding and domains, HTTPS, component groups, incident updates, postmortems, uptime history, and password protection. Incident tools include automatic incident creation, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and publishable postmortems. Monitoring intervals vary by plan, from five minutes on Free to 30 seconds on Business. The Free plan costs nothing and includes five monitors, one status page, email, Slack, and webhook notifications, 90 days of retention, audit logs, and community support. Pro is listed at $12,129 a month, billed as $108/year; Business is $292,923 a month, billed as $276/year. The service offers a Terraform provider and REST API, as well as an internal agent for checks on private endpoints without inbound ports. StatusDrift says it does not send SMS or voice calls directly.