Renewal becomes a budget event
Current SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted licensing uses multi-year subscriptions billed annually, making renewal a recurring platform decision.
SolarWinds alternative
Re-Evaluating SolarWinds? Start With What You Actually Use
If renewal cost, a multi-year subscription, or a platform that has grown broader than your infrastructure team's needs is driving a review, MCS can help map the SolarWinds capabilities you rely on to a right-sized Nagios approach.
Why teams start looking beyond SolarWinds
A replacement discussion usually starts with the renewal—but the real question is which monitoring capabilities your team actually depends on.
The platform may be broader than the job
Infrastructure teams may be paying for capabilities beyond the monitoring, alerting, logs, or traffic visibility they actually use.
Years of monitoring create complexity
Alerts, dashboards, scripts, pollers, modules, reports, and operational knowledge all need to be understood before anything is replaced.
Custom requirements still matter
Specialized devices, APIs, legacy systems, and internal applications often need monitoring that can be extended beyond built-in templates.
Right-size the platform
Build the monitoring stack around the work your team actually owns
Nagios does not need to replace every SolarWinds capability with a single product. Use Nagios XI for infrastructure availability, health, performance, alerting, reporting, and custom checks; add Nagios Log Server for centralized logs and Nagios Network Analyzer for flow and traffic analysis when those capabilities are required.
XI can run on-premises or in the cloud and monitor hybrid infrastructure. MCS can help determine which SolarWinds workloads map cleanly to Nagios—and which requirements should stay with another specialized tool.
- Nagios XI for infrastructure, network, server, service, and application monitoring
- Nagios Log Server when centralized log collection, search, and alerting are required
- Nagios Network Analyzer for NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, and IPFIX traffic analysis
- Plugins, scripts, APIs, agents, and agentless methods for monitoring that needs customization
Build around what you actually need
Structure the monitoring platform around the capabilities your team uses instead of recreating a broad suite by default.
Right-sized stack
Use XI, Log Server, and Network Analyzer where each product fits the workload.
Flexible monitoring
Extend coverage with plugins, scripts, APIs, agents, and agentless methods.
Predictable licensing
XI uses a perpetual software license with annual Maintenance & Support for updates and support.
Map before you migrate
Don’t recreate your SolarWinds stack. Rebuild around what you actually need.
MCS can review the SolarWinds products, modules, scripts, dashboards, alerts, and workflows you actually use, then map each requirement to Nagios XI, Log Server, Network Analyzer, or another appropriate solution.
MCS has been part of the Nagios Partner Network since 2011, bringing long-standing Nagios licensing, implementation, migration, and custom monitoring experience to the replacement process.
Reviewing a SolarWinds renewal or replacement?
Start with what you actually use
Tell us what SolarWinds products or modules are in the environment, what must be preserved, and what is driving the review. We can help determine where Nagios is a strong fit before you commit to a migration.
- Current SolarWinds products, modules, and monitored scope
- Nagios XI / Log Server / Network Analyzer fit assessment
- Licensing and implementation planning
- Staged migration, custom checks, and validation
Review my SolarWinds environment
A product list and a few must-have requirements are enough to start. MCS has been a Nagios partner since 2011.