5 categories · RankedNagios
Nagios is an enterprise IT infrastructure monitoring platform for businesses and organizations · nagios.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Paessler PRTG Network Monitor is first at 44%.
Zabbix is first at 27%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
LogicMonitor is first at 15%.
Why models recommend it
“I'd suggest starting with Zabbix or Nagios Core since they're completely free and enterprise-grade”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“start with Zabbix or Nagios if you need comprehensive monitoring”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Stick to well-established, actively maintained tools like SolarWinds NPM, PRTG, Nagios, or Zeek”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · alternative
“Very small / legacy environment with simple host/service checks: Nagios Core.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Self-hosting tools like old Nagios configurations or unpatched legacy open-source scripts can introduce severe security vulnerabilities”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Avoid or migrate away from these if running cloud-native, containerized, or rapidly scaling infrastructure.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Nagios is outdated and shows its age, and you should avoid it if you have cloud-native infrastructure”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“the *Core* version is barely usable without significant manual installation of plugins”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Nagios, over the 161 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 142 | 24 | Compare → | |
| 74 | 17 | Compare → | |
| 65 | 10 | View → | |
| 63 | 3 | View → | |
| 53 | 13 | View → | |
| 48 | 6 | View → | |
| 47 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 43 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 9 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Nagios →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Nagios's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- businesses and organizations worldwide
- Price stated
- Perpetual licensing with no recurring subscription fees
- Starting price
- Free
- Free plan or trial
- Start a free 30-day trial today!
- Customers named
- IBM, University of St. Thomas, Versium, Sunrise, Watch Communications, ASE, RelyIT
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 134 of the 161 answers that named Nagios and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
316 of the 316 domain citations in answers naming Nagios came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podcast or video | 130 | 0 | 2026-05-21 | ||
| Case study | 85 | 0 | 2025-05-29 | Logs, Infra monitoring | |
| Conference or event | 82 | 7 | 2026-09-14 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 54 | 2 | 2026-08-11 | Infra monitoring | |
| Blog | 44 | 0 | 2026-04-28 | Infra monitoring, SIEM | |
| Comparison | 10 | 1 | 2026-07-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 0 | 2025-05-29 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-14Conference conference or event
- 2026-08-11Cloud ready getting nagios xi running in aws webinar or virtual event
- 2026-08-06Nagios world conference 2025 code of the ancients matthew custer nick ziebell conference or event
- 2026-08-04Nagios world conference 2025 rant at a developer aaron cieslicki conference or event
- 2026-07-30Nagios world conference 2025 open discussions cory norell conference or event
- 2026-07-28Nagios world conference 2025 nagios core past present future aaron cieslicki conference or event
Events in person
- September 14, 2026 to September 17, 2026Nagios World Conference 2026Saint Paul · hosted
- August 25, 2026Process Isolation AKA Containers in Go with Michael DurenNagios Headquarters, Suite 310, St. Paul, US · hosted
As the event pages on nagios.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page nagios.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.