Open Source Self-Hosted Nagios Alternatives

Nagios is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best open source Self-Hosted alternative is Zabbix. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Nagios and many of them are open source and available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Self-Hosted alternatives to Nagios are Cockpit Project, Beszel, Pandora FMS and HyperDX.

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  1. Zabbix icon
     201 likes

    Gather and analyze accurate statistics and performance metrics, visualize it, get notified about current and potential issues without delay, and take advantage of our time-tested professional development and support.

    122 Zabbix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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    Zabbix vs Nagios Comments
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    Innovative UI and complex functions.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Zabbix is Free and Open SourceNagios is Freemium and Open Source
    • Zabbix is Privacy focusedNagios is not according to our users
  2. Cockpit Project icon
     41 likes

    Makes it easy to administer Linux servers via a web browser. It allows you to easily perform simple tasks like storage administration, inspecting journals, starting & stopping services, monitoring & administering several servers at once.

    36 Cockpit Project alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Cockpit Project vs Nagios Comments
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    Negative
    0

    Cockpit is great for what it does, but if a host is offline, all information about it is inaccessible.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Cockpit Project is Free and Open SourceNagios is Freemium and Open Source
    • Cockpit Project is LightweightNagios is not according to our users
  3. Pandora FMS icon
     71 likes

    Enterprise-ready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  4. HyperDX icon
     19 likes

    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  5. VictoriaMetrics can be used as long-term storage for Prometheus or for vmagent.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Cabot icon
     18 likes

    Cabot is a free, open-source, self-hosted infrastructure monitoring platform that provides some of the best features of PagerDuty, Server Density, Pingdom and Nagios without their cost and complexity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. OpenNMS Horizon icon
     11 likes

    OpenNMS is an open-source network monitoring platform that helps you visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. DeepFlow icon
     5 likes

    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. openITCOCKPIT icon
     11 likes

    Easy to use configuration web interface for nagios and neamon. openITCOCKPIT is a perfomant monitoring system with support for distributed monitoring (Satellites), REST API, nice dashboards, maps, graphs and a modular concept for easy customization.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. NAV icon
     6 likes

    NAV (Network Administration Visualized) is a free software program to monitor networks, developed by UNINETT and used by universities and corporations around the world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Alignak icon
     1 like

    Alignak is a modern monitoring framework based on Shinken. Its main goal is to give users a flexible and complete solution for their monitoring system.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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