Icinga vs. Tivoli Monitoring (legacy)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Icinga
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Icinga is an open source network monitoring platform. It includes automation, modularized integration packages, and prebuilt alerts and reporting capabilities.N/A
Tivoli Monitoring (legacy)
Score 5.9 out of 10
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Tivoli Monitoring products monitor the performance and availability of distributed operating systems and applications. It is a legacy product.N/A
Pricing
IcingaTivoli Monitoring (legacy)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IcingaTivoli Monitoring (legacy)
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
IcingaTivoli Monitoring (legacy)
Considered Both Products
Icinga
Chose Icinga
The best of commercial products is nearly as good at cross platform monitoring as Icinga, and all of them are expensive.
Tivoli Monitoring (legacy)

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Top Pros
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User Ratings
IcingaTivoli Monitoring (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(7 ratings)
2.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IcingaTivoli Monitoring (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Discontinued Products
If you are looking for a software that looks decent but is not something you truly rely on, this is it. I have had bad experiences with IBM Tivoli Monitoring reporting on system errors that were not evident on the systems themselves at all. There is a lot of specific alerting you can set up which is nice.
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Pros
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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Discontinued Products
  • The GUI is easy to read.
  • The software is fairly easy to configure.
  • Almost real-time.
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Cons
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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  • The software is not reliable at all.
  • Reports errors that are false-negatives.
  • Hard to configure alarms/alerts.
  • Bulky installation (takes up quite a bit of space).
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
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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Discontinued Products
We selected IBM Tivoli Monitoring as a bundle deal, other than that I would have probably gone with another vendor. We use Brocade Network Advisor for our SAN also which I would suggest to anyone over this software. The software has not been that reliable for me since we started using it.
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Return on Investment
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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Discontinued Products
  • I would not purchase this again.
  • Other software monitoring tools have been more reliable and easier to manage.
  • Difficult to manage, if you patch the server the software is installed on and have to reboot it, IBM Tivoli Monitoring does not come up clean.
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