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Icinga is open source network and IT infrastructure performance monitoring.https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/Kq/kO/AWDD57W37FNT.pngOpen SourceIcinga, I'll be seein' ya.2016-06-13T14:27:29.827ZIcinga was in place when I started, it continues to be used for a legacy environment. It monitors the status and availability of servers and services, previously for the entire production and quality assurance environments and now just for a legacy mail processing system. We chose to move away from Icinga about a year ago.,Wealth of community-developed plugins.
Stable codebase.
Icinga 2 supports distributed monitoring.
Very performant, can support tens of thousands of checks per server.,Difficult, arcane configuration.
Very difficult to integrate into modern configuration management systems.
Hard to fit concepts like auto-scaling groups of ephemeral servers into Icinga's aging conception of servers as static entities.,3,Hard to argue with free, Icinga was useful when the business was more resource-constrained
It was difficult to move away from Icinga because we had a lot of custom checks already written,Datadog, Nagios, New Relic APM, Sensu, Zabbix and Prometheus,Datadog, Ansible, Chef, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Gabriel OrtizIcinga is the new Nagios2015-12-11T18:08:41.596ZLike Nagios, we used Icinga as a network monitoring solution. It provided us with insights as to when a device was not functioning properly or failed completely. It was implemented throughout the entire organization, monitoring all our most critical assets.,Excellent monitoring solution, once you understand the configuration language adding additional hosts and services is easy.
Scalable and highly configurable.
Beautiful web UI.
Very very nice API.,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.,10,Provided us with 24/7 monitoring of critical assets.
A modified "executive view" gave managers and directors peace-of-mind that critical assets were functioning properly.,,FireEye, Eclipse Luna,10,2,Critical Asset Monitoring
Device status via SNMP and SNMP Traps
Uptime/Downtime metrics,Developed an Icinga plugin to monitor the temperature in the server room and notify us if it was above 70 degrees
Developed an Icinga plugin which essentially acted as an IDS, scanning Apache logs and notifying us of SQL injection attacks
We leveraged alerts in Icinga to notify stakeholders when a maintenance window was about to go into affect
We leveraged the API to open up helpdesk tickets when an asset went down.,Further integration with our helpdesk -- assign tickets to server administrators
Custom "executive dashboards" providing the status of various applications running on critical assets
Automated actions on downed assets -- Integrate with PoE to reboot devices which are down, and restart crashed daemons.,9Jamin BeckerIcinga monitoring tools2015-12-04T15:54:36.786ZIcinga is one of our internal monitoring user interfaces. It's the front end to nagios basically. We incorporate it with our Pager-Duty service and will receive pages if critical services go down. Our technical operations team is the primary department that uses Icinga, however more and more of the engineering and development teams are getting logins as they will be given more responsibility in monitoring their deployed services.,I think Icinga has a great search feature. I can always search for the hosts, host groups, or check names. When using just regular Nagios, I don't recall being able to do this search.
The fact that I can use Active Directory or LDAP for logins is a great feature.
If you are familiar with Nagios, it's very simple to combine the two products to get a polished finished product.,The user interface is good, but I had trouble with the customization of the front end.
Certain things can be copied and pasted. Certain things can't. I would like to see all things be able to be copied and pasted.,8,This has lead to a centralized production monitoring tool.,Nagios,New Relic APM, Splunk, SaltStackVerified User
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