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Nagios vs Assertible: What are the differences?
Developers describe Nagios as "Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services". Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License. On the other hand, Assertible is detailed as "Automated QA tools to test and monitor your web services across deployments and environments". Reduce bugs in web applications by using Assertible to create an automated QA pipeline that helps you catch failures & ship code faster.
Nagios and Assertible belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Nagios are:
- Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
- Spot problems before they occur
- Know immediately when problems arise
On the other hand, Assertible provides the following key features:
- Integrate with your favorite tools
- Automate your QA like a pro
- Run the same tests on all environments
Nagios is an open source tool with 60 GitHub stars and 36 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nagios's open source repository on GitHub.
- free open source
- modern interface and architecture
- large community
- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
Pros of Assertible
Pros of Nagios
- It just works53
- The standard28
- Customizable12
- The Most flexible monitoring system8
- Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from1