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Flapjack vs Nagios: What are the differences?
What is Flapjack? Monitoring notification routing + event processing system. Flapjack is a flexible monitoring notification routing system that handles: alert routing, alert summarisation, your standard operational tasks.
What is Nagios? 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.
Flapjack and Nagios belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Flapjack and Nagios are both open source tools. It seems that Flapjack with 656 GitHub stars and 91 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Nagios with 60 GitHub stars and 36 GitHub forks.
Decisions about Flapjack and Nagios
Matthias Fleschütz
Teamlead IT at NanoTemper Technologies · | 2 upvotes · 123.9K views
- 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- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point.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.
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What is Flapjack?
Flapjack is a flexible monitoring notification routing system that handles: alert routing, alert summarisation, your standard operational tasks.
What is Nagios?
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
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