Icinga Infrastructure Monitoring Reviews & Product Details

Icinga2 is open-source, so the costs are manageable, and the product itself is permanent in development. If something's going wrong or there are failures, it's no problem to reach the developers. It's very reliable; we are a huge company (Gouvernement) and need reliable solutions. With two icinga2 hosts, we can manage over 44000 Services and 3500 Hosts. It uses the same checks as Nagios; if a service-check isn't available, it's easy to write one. Our admins could write checks, too. They use bash, PowerShell, Perl.. or whatever for scripting; it doesn't matter. With the windows agent, we can use PowerShell checks, with Linux agents bash or similarly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not very much I dislike. Sometimes I feel we could have better modules for icingaweb2, but it's not the blame of the Icinga-developers. Sometimes we have to sponsor when we need functionalities, but it's open-source! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is open source and free, meaning the software is easily extendible. All Nagios plugins, as well as all the community plugins are usable with Icinga. You can use a lot of advanced features, including check scheduling, notification escalation or a very detailed user access and management system. It is very easy to extend the system with extra checks or hosts due to the templating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup of the software can be quite complicated depending on the OS you are deploying on (I deployed on Alpine Linux) and the documentation for this is not complete. After setup, the initial learning curve is quite steep and takes quite some time. For instance, you need to create a notification template to create a notification object to create a user template to create a user, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a free, accessible, and full open sourcing project, Icinga Monitoring offers many organizational monitoring solutions, particularly for hosts and simple analytics alerting, as well as reliable codebase to the decentralized control. I feel like Icinga Monitoring is simpler than other software and it has the most simple securities functionalities you need. Also, It has some good features to use Active Directory or LDAP for accesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning process is quite high, as with any complex software package. The culture of Icinga Monitoring is good, but it is very difficult to find specific answers for many of the concerns quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the best advantages is we have only one ticket instead of more in case the devices are related to each other during the outage. Easy to navigate on the GUI. It is really easy to set up from the very beginning and easy to make the configuration. We can connect it with lots of 3rd party tools. It is easy to integrate and very simple the structure of the Icinga. It has very good and transparent documentation, if we get stuck with something, easy to look into on the Internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be really good if we get more functions for the basic system. There are lots of useful functions not built in, so we need to add them with plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Icinga provides a complete monitoring Suite with several features {dial, could etc} with or without agent, best companion aN appealing dashboard fast and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Automatic massaging by sms doesn't work well, telegram is better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've worked with Icinga in multiple organizations, spanning thousands of devices. I love the configurability of the Icinga framework, although for admins new to the platform it may seem intimidating to edit the config files.

Icinga2 brings additional features that help automate and configure with less flat file configuration needed but neither product should be brought in lightly. They both require a lot of work up front to be tuned in such a way as to provide benefit that can be mapped back to business requirements. Fortunately, there is a plethora of documentation available as they are widely used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flat files can be intimidating, and the web interface plugin is not very intuitive. Easy to script and automate, however. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used Icinga and Icinga2 heavily in my previous experiences. It helped to migrate all monitors from Nagios to Icinga2 with a lot of automation from the frontend. For example, importing probes from Icinga2 Director was very useful. It saved a lot of time and can import thousands of probes with a single click. I was very happy with the distributed monitoring feature, especially using the master and satellite zones concept. Overall, it helped to completely monitor infra, app, logs, URL, etc., with ease to integrate with CM tools like Ansible and alerting tools like PagerDuty, Slack, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I sometimes had difficulty in finding information related to bugs over the internet. Found fewer blogs or articles related to Icinga2. Sometimes debugging becomes a pain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Icinga2 is really useful and also has clearly documents for starter or newbie who wants to monitor the large network and services environment. It's also support distribution monitoring modeling, this very helpful for scaling and growing of automation services if needed. Almost you needed that container by this platform with Icinga2 core, IcingaWeb2 frontend and ton of amazing plugins from official or community. It's really good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Time to response when has many interval time of checking services seem like little bit of increase and may cause unusable results with some nearly real-time checking. It's still more difficult to optimize that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Deployment Icinga on many datacenter base on satellite architecture

- Management Icinga configuration on the web

- Configuration hosts, metrics, alarm are very like

- Easy to make custom scripts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Architecture installation is complex

- Icinga agent takes a lot of resource of host

- Deployment Icinga agent on auto scaling host is complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very flexible to monitoring of services and the speed,It has a rich configuration language that allows expression of complex configurations in a minimal amount of text, allowing monitoring configurations to be written quickly and concisely Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be appreciated if there is a good support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.