Azure Monitor vs Icinga

Likelihood to Recommend

We were able to get a single pane of glass for all our monitoring needs on Azure Monitor. However, we would like to see it improve to auto scale out and scale in depending on the load without human intervention. This can help us get to the No Ops model and rely on automated processes rather than manual intervention.

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Icinga is a world-class monitoring system. It can be used for most general monitoring situations. It is not a silver bullet, however, and there are instances where domain-specific monitoring systems are necessary. However, the output from those monitoring systems can be funneled into Icinga as a central monitoring and alerting system.

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Engineer in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pros

It supports all the Azure PAAS services.
Can monitor both infrastructure and application

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Wealth of community-developed plugins.
Stable codebase.
Icinga 2 supports distributed monitoring.
Very performant, can support tens of thousands of checks per server.

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Gabriel Ortiz

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

AgariComputer & Network Security, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Custom metrics
Ease of use

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Professional in Corporate

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 11-50 employees

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High learning curve, setting up Icinga from scratch can be a bit of a challenge starting out.
If the io2db process fails you UI stops updating, which can be very frustrating.
There is no simple mechanism for adding new hosts and services through the web UI, it's all very config-file based.

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Jamin Becker

System Administrator

SPX FLOW, Inc.Financial Services, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Icinga 9.0

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Icinga is a solid solution which does everything it promises. It is backwards compatible with most Nagios instances, making the transition very easy. Once you get the hang of installing new plugins and editing configuration files expanding its monitoring capabilities are easy.

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Jamin Becker

System Administrator

SPX FLOW, Inc.Financial Services, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Azure Monitor 6.7

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I have not had to work with Azure Monitor support, so it is difficult to say how well the support team is. I assume that Azure has a well-versed team on the customer service side to assist with any issues customers may have. I may need them in the feature.

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Professional in Corporate

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

While other tools have their own unique capability, Azure Monitor helps us monitor essential PAAS services that are not supported by other tools. So even though we have one other APM tool, we still rely on Azure Monitor for some of the special PAAS services, this is a huge advantage.

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Icinga is better than Nagios because of its nicer user interface. New Relic can monitor CPU/memory and disk usage, but it's more of a performance and application troubleshooting tool rather than monitoring

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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