Icinga

Icinga - customizable but not easy

Kommentare: We chose to build our own knowledge about Icinga systems, so we don't rely on any support or vendor. It has it's challenges that open source projects like that bring with them, but community is large and solutions are generally easy to find.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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.

Icinga - a versatile software with lot's of potential to be customized for every need

Kommentare: Getting started with Icinga can have a steep learning curve, which is understandable since setting it up in a convenient way requires Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2, and Icinga [sensitive content hidden]. The versatility adds to the complexity, but once you have a solid overview of the technology stack, your monitoring capabilities are nearly limitless.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Excellent monitoring toolbox with room to grow

Kommentare: Having used Icinga 1 and now Icinga 2 for many years managing hundreds of hosts with thousands of services, there is just nothing like it. The development team has continued to shed past technical debt and continues to provide an excellent monitoring system.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Monitoring at its best

Kommentare: I'm pretty happy with Icinga because of its modularity. We monitor about 500 hosts and about 15000 Services. In such environments it-monitoring is mandatory, and I truly recommend to use the module "business processes" to get a logical structure and map the dependencies from your applications to the monitored hosts and services

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Best monitoring for experienced linux system admin

Kommentare: Icinga cannot be used by inexperienced Linux system administrators.
Also Windows "administrators" can also do little with it.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Keeping our network infrastructure in check with Icinga, a powerful network monitoring tool.

Kommentare: Icinga has made it easy for us to gain a deeper and clearer view of the real-time status of our network infrastructure at any given time. The experience of monitoring our network infrastructure with Icinga has been very lucid.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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

You asked for it and they delivered, Icinga is a game changer.

Kommentare: A satisfied user. I highly recommend it is want to elevate your standards.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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

My Experience using icinga

Kommentare: icinga has been a solid monitoring tool that's quick to set up on my servers, with a modular design that makes custom checks simple and an interface that even my non-techy team members can handle

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

None to report, it has met my expectations

Elevate workforce capacity planning with Icinga.

Kommentare: Very exceptional and easily customizable. Icinga to the moon and back.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

fantastic software monitoring !! amazing!

Kommentare: I'm currently monitoring around 11k nodes.
35k services
and 7 satellites in total

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

graphically not exciting It's not easy to update

Great all-in-one solution

Kommentare: Works great for us, a team of five people.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Icinga Has Been So Impressive and Friendly to Use

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Amazing and Powerful Monitoring with a Steep Learning Curve

Kommentare: its seamless integration with various metrics and logs makes it incredibly versatile and powerful

Vorteile:

Its comprehensive infrastructure monitoring with its scalability and extensibility

Nachteile:

It has complex initial setup and configuration.

icinga: great open source tool for real-time monitoring

Kommentare: Icinga works great in real-time monitoring and can be easily integrated with other tools (Slack, emails, etc.) for notifications.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

Icinga-Admin for over 9 Years

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Simple Monitoring tool focused in automation

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Great Monitoring Tool

Vorteile:

Marvellous modules integrate on the product. Great customization, easy to use.

Nachteile:

I think that if there would be a simpler export way to import in a new installatio n from scratch, it could be a good idea.

Easy to use

Vorteile:

Easy to use, to install. HA capability and satellite usage are greats features Windows Installation

Nachteile:

Reporting features are not great. If we need to create some reports of Availability module are not reporting somes informations or graph Grafana / graph integration is not easy Documentation is not complete Windows Integration and check are not easy to use. It will be great to install with the agent the powershell checks

A cloud-native jack of all trades

Kommentare: Easy to deploy, in a cloud-native fashion using Icinga satellites, provides the core functionality nicely that anyone in their right mind is expecting from a monitoring system, but might lack some things that larger enterprises consider "mandatory".

Vorteile:

Icinga is, even though it's already at this point in time a relatively mature open source project, getting updates released very frequently. It seems to be increasing the feature upside it has over its most direct competition, slowly, but surely. The API is also more straightforward in design over its direct competition.

Nachteile:

Graphs and visualization over longer time periods is really lacking or if existing, really difficult to use. The .conf file configuration also feels very old school now in 2021.

My experience using Icinga for my clients

Kommentare: I've used this tool for a number of firms, monitoring anything from standard server response to ensuring that specialised daemons are up and functioning. Icinga's client/server architecture allows it to monitor almost anything for which you can create a script. You may monitor local CPU, RAM, processes, and more without using SNMP by installing the client on a server. TLS encryption is used to encrypt communication between the client and the server, offering security where it is often lacking. Icinga has been used to monitor network and system devices throughout the whole organisation.

Vorteile:

Beautiful Web User-Interface, Highly Configurable and Scalable, The secure connections between systems are possible thanks to the client/server concept. It also permits data to be captured even if there is a communication problem, with the data being queued for upload when communication is restored.

Nachteile:

Sometimes io2db process fails and the UI freezes, Configuration can be hard for non-unix users and this leads to hours of search surfing but if the documentation got improved things will go smooth.

Icinga2 is an excellent contender in the monitoring world

Kommentare: Monitoring is a question to be considered carefully -- rarely is a solution one-size-fits-all. Icinga2 is a great option for basic monitoring.

Vorteile:

Icinga2 fills a niche very similar to that of the Nagios project. Where Icinga excels (over Nagios) is in the niceties of its configuration language, as well as many advanced features. As an open source project, Icinga offers a free, open, and complete solution for most operation monitoring. In particular, Icinga is great for monitoring hosts and alerting on basic metrics.

Nachteile:

There are a few disadvantages of Icinga -- the frontend is php, the stack is fairly monolithic, and the architecture does not take advantage of time-series databases. Having used (and set up) both monolithic monitoring infrastructure and pipelined infrastructure, I have found that although the monolithic (nagios/icinga2) systems have a much lower barrier to entry, a pipelined architecture tends to be more maintainable for more advanced requirements.

The ultimate tool for server monitoring

Kommentare: After getting past the initial hurdle of setup, the software worked exactly as advertised and allowed our company to have much better monitoring of our servers. It has also allowed us to get much more information about these servers than before that helps us determine business priorities.

Vorteile:

The build-in icingaweb plugin is great and allows our less-technical employees to still use this application. Initial set-up can be tricky, but the community following is great and generally very helpful. Extending the number of hosts or services checked is a breezy, with easy "clone this object" functionalities on the web interface, or detailed customization for the sysadmin. The fact that you can customize alerting for a specific time of day for your various users is a life-saver.

Nachteile:

As stated before, the initial set-up is tricky, with varying steps needed depending on the OS it is running on. Also, installing an agent on the servers that need to be monitored requires some trial and error. As with any complicated piece of software, the learning curve is quite steep.

Best Monitoring Platform for your Clients

Kommentare: Can monitor any needed service and is easily customizable with fast deployment and scalable architecture

Vorteile:

I like how easy Icinga is for my clients to monitor their large network, They easily learn how to use it through its clearly documentation, After getting the setup down for them they easily get their job done.

Nachteile:

There's some complexity during the installation, There's also lack of extensions to power it up and their team isn't updating it frequently

It works. And it's free and flexible.

Kommentare: It does the all basic monitoring you need.

Vorteile:

It's open source. It has most basic monitoring functionalities that you need. Also, it can literally monitor anything. You can use Nagios plugins and very easy to create your owns and add to monitoring. You can customize it to your needs. Very few issues and keeps running.

Nachteile:

Icinga Community is great there. But for some of the issues, it is very hard to find resolutions faster. I felt the user documentation had not been that helpful sometimes. But they have improved a lot.

simple, functional and complete network monitoring system

Kommentare: We use for network monitoring that our team is assigned. In addition to departmental processes we also use it to generate monthly customer reports.

Vorteile:

It is possible to generate error notifications on the networks, and the generation of documentation with just one click. What makes software very simple and useful for network management

Nachteile:

On some occasions when we ask for a modem to be reconnected, the process is not done immediately, I try to do the process of downing the connection service and reconnecting again.