Product Solutions Resources Partners Pricing Support Talk to an expert Get free trial Login GitLab vs Nagios XI Decision Kit Summary Nagios XI focuses on critical infrastructure monitoring including applications, systems, database, logs, bandwidth, protocol and server performance. GitLab has a powerful monitoring capability with Prometheus, a time-series monitoring service, providing a flexible platform for monitoring GitLab and other software products. GitLab provides out of the box monitoring with Prometheus, providing easy access to high quality time-series monitoring of GitLab services. GitLab has built-in monitoring that can automatically monitor your deployed applications, with extensive support for native cloud, container, and microservices technology. Additionally, Gitlab uses Jaeger, an open source end-to-end distributed tracing system used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems. Resources Nagios XI Feature Comparison FEATURES Application performance monitoring SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab collects and displays performance metrics for deployed apps, leveraging Prometheus. Developers can determine the impact of a merge and keep an eye on their production systems, without leaving GitLab. Learn more about monitoring deployed apps GitLab Self-monitoring SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab comes out of the box enabled for Prometheus monitoring with extensive instrumentation, making it easy to ensure your GitLab deployment is responsive and healthy. Learn more about GitLab self-monitoring Cloud Native Monitoring SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE The monitoring of cloud native applications including microservices that are built to run in the cloud so that bottlenecks and issues can be addressed via insights into collected metrics. Server Monitoring SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Reviewing and analyzing a server for availability, operations, performance, security and other operations-related processes. Monitor servers system resources like CPU Usage, Memory Consumption, I/O, Network, Disk Usage, Process, etc. GitLab uses the Node Exporter (via Prometheus) to expose an extensive set of machine-level metrics on Linux and other Unix systems such as CPU usage, memory, disk utilization, filesystem fullness, and network bandwidth. Tracing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Tracing provides insight into the performance and health of a deployed application, tracking each function or microservice which handles a given request. This makes it easy to understand the end-to-end flow of a request, regardless of whether you are using a monolithic or distributed system. Learn more about Tracing Twitter Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Why GitLab? Product Solutions Services DevOps tools Is it any good? Releases Pricing Get started Resources All resources All-Remote Blog Newsletter Events Webcasts Topics Training Docs Developer Portal Install Community Customers Contribute Community Programs Direction Technology Partners Channel Partners Open Source Partners GitLab for Open Source GitLab for Education GitLab for Startups Shop Community Forum Support Get help Contact Sales Contact Support Support options Status Customers Portal Company About What is GitLab? Jobs Culture Leadership Team Press Investor Relations Analysts Handbook Security Contact Terms Privacy Cookie Preferences Trademark Git is a trademark of Software Freedom Conservancy and our use of 'GitLab' is under license View page source — Edit in Web IDE — please contribute. © 2021 GitLab B.V. This website uses cookies We use cookies to make our websites and services operate correctly, to understand how visitors engage with us and to improve our product and marketing efforts. See our cookie policy for more information.Cookie Policy Cookies Settings Accept All Cookies