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Icinga is an open source network monitoring platform. It includes automation, modularized integration packages, and prebuilt alerts and reporting capabilities.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/Kq/kO/AWDD57W37FNT.pngOpen SourceIcinga: The monitoring tool you've been missing2019-01-30T20:29:20.593ZIcinga is a world-class monitoring system. I've used this product for several companies, monitoring everything from typical server response to verification that specific daemons are up and running. The client/server nature of Icinga allows for monitoring of nearly anything you can write a script for. Installing the client on a server, you can monitor local CPU, memory, processes, etc. without the need for SNMP. Communication between client and server is TLS encrypted, adding security where typically there is none. We have used Icinga across the entire enterprise to monitor network and system devices.,Flexible: Monitoring is done via scripts. If you can write a script to return a go/no go response for something you want monitored, then you can monitor it.
Client/Server Model: The client/server model allows for secure communications between systems. Additionally, it allows data to continue to be collected in the event of a communication problem, queuing the data for upload when communication is restored.
Simple, but powerful, configuration: The configuration language used by Icinga allows additional flexibility without having to directly specify every relation. That is, you can use commands to apply a given configuration to hosts and services based on common properties.,Distributed configurations can be somewhat challenging to deploy. However, once set up, a multiple master setup can result in a highly available, resilient monitoring system.
Icinga supports a centralized configuration system akin to something like svn or git. Understanding how this works and using it in practice can be something of a challenge for beginners.,9,Free - Icinga is free, open-source software. There are companies that can provide support if needed. But having a full-featured product such as this with no initial capex or continual opex cost is a definite plus.
Relatively simple to set up a single instance. This allows one to get up and running quickly and learn the system. As you learn, you can transform the system into a more complex, resilient system.,Nagios, WhatsUp Gold, Zenoss Cloud and Zabbix,Zoom, Expensify, Microsoft Office 365Jason FrisvoldIcinga is what you need, even if you don't want to admit it.2019-03-18T18:35:19.722ZIcinga is our core monitoring platform for all non-Windows systems. However, our Windows group is actively looking to abandon their current platform and implement it for their systems as well.,The price tag is right. Monitoring systems are only as good as the time you put into them, so why start with a huge buy-in before dumping man hours in also?
Despite some older styled interfaces, the dashboard is easy to manage and understand.
Scalability is excellent.,Icinga is a monitoring solution only. It doesn't generate PHB graphs, but everyone seems to expect it to.
Configuration can be confusing and difficult. For non-unix people the learning curve is very intimidating.,10,Icinga is free, but costs in initial setup manhours. This can be surprising, but it's still cheaper than other products.
The setup and maintenance requires a fairly adept sysadmin.,IBM Tivoli Monitoring,IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Zabbix, SolarWinds ipMonitor, WhatsUp GoldVerified UserIcinga, 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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