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Honeycomb vs Nagios

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HoneycombMonitoring & Observability
From $150 / moPublished price
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NagiosMonitoring & Observability
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Honeycomb
Monitoring & Observability

Observability built around debugging real production systems.

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Nagios
Monitoring & Observability

The industry standard in IT infrastructure monitoring.

Overview
CategoryMonitoring & ObservabilityMonitoring & Observability
What it isHoneycomb is an observability platform focused on high-cardinality analysis, distributed tracing, and faster debugging for complex production systems.Nagios is a veteran IT infrastructure monitoring system for servers, networks, applications, and services with alerting and reporting capabilities.
Pricing
Published priceFrom $150 / mo
Vendor pricing: Free plan up to 20M events/mo (and 100M metrics data points). Pro starts at $150/mo, scaling by event volume up to 750M events/mo (and 3.75B metrics points). Enter…
Nagios Core: Free and open source Nagios XI Standard: $1,995 one-time (100 nodes) Nagios XI Enterprise: $3,495 one-time (unlimited nodes) Annual maintenance: ~$700-1,200/year
Pricing modelTiered plansFree
Free optionsFree plan · Free trialFree plan · No free trial
Deal on CubbieNone right nowNone right now
Company
Founded20161999
Team size201-500 employees51-200 employees
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CASaint Paul, Minnesota
Featured clientsNot availableAT&T, US Army, Cisco

Where these sit in Monitoring & Observability

  • Honeycomb$1,800
  • Monitoring & Observability median$858

Per seat, per year, across 14 products publishing a price. Half of Monitoring & Observability sits between $375 and $1,710, and 33% of its plans are priced on request. Nagios states a range rather than a single yearly figure, so it is not marked here.

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