Azure Network Watcher vs. Icinga

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Network Watcher
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Network Watcher monitors, diagnoses, and provides insights into network performance and health.N/A
Icinga
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Icinga is an open source network monitoring platform. It includes automation, modularized integration packages, and prebuilt alerts and reporting capabilities.N/A
Pricing
Azure Network WatcherIcinga
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Network WatcherIcinga
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure Network WatcherIcinga
Features
Azure Network WatcherIcinga
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Azure Network Watcher
8.3
4 Ratings
3% above category average
Icinga
-
Ratings
Automated network device discovery8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Network monitoring8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Network capacity planning8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Network mapping8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring8.13 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure Network WatcherIcinga
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(4 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Network WatcherIcinga
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure Network Watcher is well suited to monitor or diagnose logs for azure virtual network, managing connection/relationship between virtual networks. Diagnose network traffic, network traffic etc. Overall, it is appropriate to use in monitoring, diagnostic and logging activities for resources in azure virtual network. It is mainly used in infrastructure as a service component.
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Icinga GmbH
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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Pros
Microsoft
  • View resources and theri relationship
  • Diagnose network routing problems
  • View security rules for a network interface
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Icinga GmbH
  • 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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Cons
Microsoft
  • More granular visualization through the Azure Network. Ex. Seeing NSG Flow through each Hop.
  • Allow for more capabilities to view Connectivity through On-Premise Networks.
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Icinga GmbH
  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
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Icinga GmbH
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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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Azure Network Watcher can help with resources in the Cloud if this device is able to send traffic. We are using Azure Network Watcher in cases Solarwinds can't cover easily like API to load balancers & additional testing.
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Icinga GmbH
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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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Positive impact as it helps in setting up critical alerts
  • Monitoring network, hardware
  • Customizable reports can be set which helps in business objective
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Icinga GmbH
  • With one check you know which applications are faulty e.g. after an upgrade. Which is big time saver
  • You easily detect outages ion the applications so that your customer ideally does not even realize there was an outage.
  • Detect if the environment does deliver the same result as in the same time as before to detect shortages.
  • Additional information when debugging. Saved us several hours where we could simply point to a database which was slow.
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