Likelihood to Recommend 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 Scout does a fantastic job with all of the modules and it is easy to navigate. A nice addition was the cyber security module. I can not think of a less appropriate scenario.
Read full review Pros 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 I specifically use the risk assessment module and do risk assessments on any new product we introduce into our network or any company that we are thinking about taking on as a client. I also use the vendor management module for any due diligence that comes up with a new company or a company that we may use once and then not use again. Read full review Cons 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 There are not many areas that I would change in Scout. If I were to change anything it would be just to add a description of when I would use a report, such as managers, board of directors, or regulators. Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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 Alternatives Considered 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 I've already explained why this product beats Excel hands down in time and money. I also love the way it sends you an email when you forget any due diligence or testing that needs to be done.
Read full review Return on Investment 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 I like that everything is in one place. We used to use Excel spreadsheets and it was very hard to keep everything in one place or to find something specific. Now it is very easy finding what you're looking for with this all in one solution. This solution pays for itself with the time saved from not looking at spreadsheets. When the regulators come and they ask for a assessment I can get it for them in very short order. Read full review ScreenShots