Icinga Reviews

Pros

Instead of manually tracking resource data and demand trends, Icinga has capacity forecasting tools using algorithm to provide real-time insights and accurate projections.

Cons

Apart from initial setup being complicated, Icinga is flawless.

Pros

I think Icinga 2 is highly customizable. You can create custom check plugins or implement web-based enhancements. There's also an active community.

Cons

I don't like the "new" theme but since that is adaptable too, this is not really a problem

Alternatives Considered

Checkmk and Zabbix

Reasons for Switching to Icinga

When I was choosing a monitoring backend, the community forums for other open-source alternatives were not as active as community.icinga.com.

Pros

Simple and infinite extensibility, powerful configuration language that lends itself well to automation, scalability.

Cons

Overcomplicated and underdocumented clustering setup, often no clear best practices, fragmented landscape

Pros

Icinga really delivers. With Icinga you can monitor many different network devices in one tool. It also detects errors and anomalies and alerts us immediately. Icinga is a gem, I wish we've known it from before.

Cons

A magnificent tool that helps us to monitor network interfaces for physical and virtual servers.

Pros

I can say that icinga has been a really reliable monitoring system. setting it up to my own servers is easy enough and the installation process is very straightforward when it comes to setting it up on my own servers. I also love how the modular setup makes it easy for me to build custom checks and handle loads of monitoring tasks smoothly. I also have to commend how easy the interface is as my not so tech-savvy team members can operate it

Cons

None to report, it has met my expectations

Pros

I have found Icinga to be incredibly helpful. it lets me monitor anything with an IP address effortlessly. One of my favorite features is the automation, which takes care of a lot of the repetitive tasks, saving me tons of time during the monitoring process. Its powerful analytics have also been game changeing, giving me valuable insights into my network’s infrastructure that I wouldn’t have caught otherwise. Honestly, it is a versatile tool I use that centralizes everything is centralized in one place, making it super convenient as well

Cons

I really can't think of any, I am in awe of the innovation behind it.

Pros

Most versatile and flexible solution for monitoring. Monitor everything in on place. A leading solution for work management and gain an edge.

Cons

Nothing at all. Icinga is the best out there go for it.

Pros

Icinga is a lifesaver for our IT team. It automates a ton of tasks which generally makes our lives much easier. The real-time dashboards are super helpful, giving us a clear picture of our network's health. And when something goes wrong, it posseses and alert system that notifies us right away so we can find a prompt solution to the problem before it escalates. It's a powerful tool that has significantly improved our network monitoring and management.

Cons

Just getting to use it might be a little challenging, but after getting a hang of it, it was sweet sailings from then on

Pros

Icinga is a highly flexible tool that makes it easy for me to create custom checks or add new features through its web interface. Its automation features are a huge time saver that makes monitoring tasks quicker and more straightforward for me. the live dashboards and notifications are incredibly useful as they give a clear view of our systems so we can catch and fix problems early. any cyber security pro should definitely consider employing icinga

Cons

None to report, I have a very pleasant experience using icinga

Pros

Icinga is a flawless and flexible monitoring tool. Analyze your entire IT networks with Icinga. Very secure and has a lot of incredible features.

Cons

For me I have nothing to complain. It works perfectly just as we expected.

Pros

Its so flexible you can monitor literally everything that has an ip address.

Cons

the learning curve at the beginning is somewhat hard to understand the concepts behind agents, zones, endpoints ... but when you master it, the possibilities are enormous what you can do with it

Pros

Icinga uses automations that help us automate most of the tasks during monitoring making the whole process quick. Its powerful analytics help us discover very useful insights about our network infrastructure. Icinga live dashboards provide us with a real-time view of the current status and conditions of our infrastructure making it easy to detect any issues in the early stages. It has an alert system that always sends notifications any time an incident is detected in our infrastructure giving us ample time to respond abd rectify the issue.

Cons

We have not had any problems with Icinga. Nothing about it has made us complain.

Pros

Scalability, speed, security, usage of old monitoring checks are possible

Cons

nothing, its one of the best available monitoring systems. But its not a "click" tool than can be used by

Alternatives Considered

Checkmk, Zabbix and Nagios Core

Reasons for Choosing Icinga

missing functionality, pricing, overall support

Switched From

Nagios Core

Reasons for Switching to Icinga

performance, security, flexibility, use of old checks

Pros

Manage massive amounts of monitoring objects with Icinga. An easy to use software which helps us create reports with our existing data for different aspects. With Icinga you can collect and send data to many of our existing DevOps tools. So accurate and trustworthy.

Cons

Icinga is perfectly created to satisfy it's users needs. Keep up with good work.

Pros

Exceptional monitoring software. complete and customizable. essential for my work

Cons

graphically not exciting
It's not easy to update

Pros

Open Source, Self-hostable, Public Documentation, Widely supported, Checks can be written completely by yourself, great Community.

Cons

The existing Docker containers seem rather experimental. The community seems to install Icinga largely without Docker - But that works great!

Pros

With Icinga, we usually enjoy efficiency and reliability.
It has been a top and easy to manage infrastructure monitoring solution.

Cons

I love how organized and flawless Icinga has been.
It has been so amazing to our company.

Pros

It is a scalable and extensible monitoring tool. It has really helped us to identify and problem within our network. A reliable must -have tool.

Cons

There is no way I am going to complain about it.

Pros

Its comprehensive infrastructure monitoring with its scalability and extensibility

Cons

It has complex initial setup and configuration.

Pros

The most adaptable and flexible monitoring solution. Keep an eye on everything here. a cutting-edge approach to work management that gives you an advantage.

Cons

Although I dislike the "new" theme, it's not really an issue because it can be changed as well.

Pros

It is free and very flexible. Community is large and develops many extensions to the core project.

Cons

It has constant development that can be a problem with outside plugins that are not supported so professionally. Also core product needs some knowledge to set up and maintain. It is not just an install wizard.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Service Desk, Splunk Enterprise and Nagios Core

Reasons for Switching to Icinga

Pricing and performance and inhouse knowledge.

Pros

It offers exceptional firewall protection features, making security monitoring and network security enhancement simple, with easy log tracking.

Cons

They are considering moving it to cloud, which be beneficial or not.

Pros

Icinga allows you to monitor all your hosts and services/applications in one place, allowing for extensive and deep customization by means of templates and ad-hoc scripts.

Cons

It is quite complicated, at least at the beginning, to understand how the Icinga system works. You need to understand how services, groups, templates, commands, rules work before implementing your checks.

Pros

the modularity, the open source aspect, the "check what you want, you just need the right plugin"-aspect

Cons

because there is much room for improvement and corrections, issues / feature requests are handled quite slow as long as you are now paying customer.

Pros

Easy to configure and use.It is very impressive a way to automize the tool.

Cons

If you install Icinga in RHEL system you must to pay a subscription in order to access to It repository for update the software