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Icinga a free monitoring solution
January 03, 2024

Icinga a free monitoring solution

Andre Zielinski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Icinga

Icinga is used to monitor our internal systems and applications, so that we are detectings outages before the user does. It is also used to monitor out applications, which are in use on customer site.
  • Monitoring of applications and systems
  • Easy to provide additional plugins or write them yourself
  • Big community with many plugins
  • You can also use plugins for nagios as both share the same code base
  • Eays upgrade via Package Management
  • Configuration is a bit tricky to get into
  • Sometimes after an upgrade agents lose the connection to the main host
  • To use graphs you have to use another component. It is not integrated.
  • 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.
PRTG was the solution that was implemented before. As Icinga is Open Source we saved the licensing fee, as we ran out of free checks. I also had knowledge in Icinga so we switched over.

Nagios is inferior to Icinga in my opinion, as Icinga has the better Web UI, which I use the most to easily detect faulty systems. So we did not change to Nagios but to Icinga.

Do you think Icinga delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Icinga's feature set?

Yes

Did Icinga live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Icinga go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Icinga again?

Yes

Is is well suited for monitoring of applications and systems both internal and external. Due to the ease to add your own plugins you can monitor your applications as granular as you like.

If you want an easy to use monitoring suite and don't want to spend much time configuring it, PRTG would be a better solution. But if you want to configure many granular details I think Icinga is a good solution.