Likelihood to Recommend Well Suited: - Multiple units (you may split Nimsoft per Groups, companies, etc.) - When your Business Teams NEED Dashboards (they'll love it after they learn how to use, for example, if they discover that the may even run SQL queries together with monitor the webpage of the application, and display business data) Less appropriate: - If you are beginning to monitor your environment (because you need to know your environment at least a little bit to check if the entire set of monitoring Nimsoft plugins will really help you or you will only use it to ping your application) - If you don't have at least one (i do recommend 2 or 3 after some short time) people dedicated to deploy and fine-tune the monitoring. The tool is really good, but if you don't have anyone working on it, you will notice that you're spending money in an elephant to kill an ant or worst, that you passed the entire year, and still have the same problems of the last year, cause no one put the hands enough time in the tool. I saw this happening during the first year when I was the only one working with the tool and still supporting the entire team.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Pros Ease of management Unified platform Depth of infrastructure management. Has numerous probes which can help you monitor every aspect of your environment. Read full review Wealth of community-developed plugins. Stable codebase. Icinga 2 supports distributed monitoring. Very performant, can support tens of thousands of checks per server. Read full review Cons I'd like to see improvements in inventory management. Currently node management isn't as efficient as I'd like. I also see a big opportunity to offer greater customization in the Detail Tab. I'd like the ability to pick and chose which metrics are displayed by default in the Detail Tab snapshot. Read full review 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. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Meets our business requirements
Read full review 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.
Read full review Usability Easy to configure and use.
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Read full review Alternatives Considered All tools have their own gaps , some seem to do more than others, some just work better. With UIM we have found a sweet spot with features, price point, pros, cons, etc
Read full review 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
Read full review Return on Investment Business Units love It - Good for them, but worse for the IT Team until we share the responsibility of the dashboards. If no one put their hands on it, it will take some time to give results. I'm talking about environments with 400 devices, for example, in something about 6 months to one year, if no one is dedicated, and depending on the consulting company. Some, even certified by CA, was not good. If possible, try to use CA services directly. IT Teams, after they start to notice that the tool really work, will want to monitor everything. Depending on the company, this will be more or less easy to measure, as ROI. And I'm telling this because usually IT teams don't know how to sell them to C-Levels, and the tool, because of the price, is always a motivation to questions like: "What is this tool? Do you really need it? Is there another way to monitor this?" Read full review 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. Read full review ScreenShots