Icinga Reviews

Name: Icinga
Brand: Icinga
Rating: 4 (16 reviews)

3.8 out of 5

16 reviews
84% willing to recommend

2,294 followers

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Icinga monitors infrastructures of all sizes with the integrated cluster system secured by SSL, Integrates with DevOps tools and uses an object based configuration or provision on users' monitoring code through the REST API. Icinga has a lightweight and extensible web interface to keep an eye on your environment and provides modules that extend the functionality of Icinga Web 2. Additionally, it offers a fully preconfigured monitoring stack or just add an external perspective.

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Icinga is the #8 ranked solution in top Server Monitoring solutions, #19 ranked solution in top Cloud Monitoring Software, #22 ranked solution in best Network Monitoring Tools, and #23 ranked solution in Infrastructure Monitoring tools. PeerSpot users give Icinga an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. Icinga is most commonly compared to Splunk Enterprise Security: Icinga vs Splunk Enterprise Security. Icinga is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 60% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 19% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Harrison Bulley

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Net Consulting

May 25, 2023

Our company used the tool to monitor the solutions and infrastructure in our environment which included it for our monitoring solutions, to monitor the infrastructure in all our environments such as networking, storage, and all the physical and virtual servers. We used it daily to check for both…

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Lasse Wackers

Senior System Integration Engineer at SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH

Jun 4, 2023

We are a managed services provider, so we use Icinga to monitor our customers' Windows and Linux systems. Furthermore, we are performing basic checks on their applications (like Databases, Web servers, mail servers, or other applications). We use Icinga to measure the services our customers are…

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Claudio Kuenzler

Senior Systems Engineer at Infiniroot

May 30, 2023

I use the product for server and network device monitoring. A team of five people is managing the solution, and around 50 people are using the solution in the organization Pro-active monitoring and alerting helped us to decrease downtimes of services. The apply rules feature saves a lot of time.…

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Icinga market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of Icinga in the Network Monitoring Software category stands at 1.9%, marking a decrease of 24.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The best thing about the solution is how it highlights errors, the issues, and what needs my attention. The solution directs me to areas that I should look for first."
"It is really easy in Icinga to create your own plugin and integrate it without any fuss. And it works just perfectly fine."
"Icinga has multiple automation and integration features. There is an API for everything and a web UI for configurations. The APIs enable you to automate tasks in Icinga. We can also use plugins to talk to the API. The Icinga Director talks to a database in the background, and you can import settings from the CMDB to all systems in Icinga."

Room for Improvement

"The tool currently fails to provide notifications to users."
"One thing that Icinga lacks is the capability to create advanced and customized dashboards within the tool itself."
"Icinga is a complex solution that's hard to learn. It's a powerful product for monitoring, but new users will have a hard time figuring out what to do."

Pricing

Icinga offers a range of options for pricing, setup cost, and licensing. For personal use, there are no additional fees to install it. However, for organizational use, there are licensing considerations based on the number of users and desired features.

While the core Icinga software is open-source, additional features and user support may come with associated costs. Professional support can be purchased from the vendor if needed.

Some users find the solution to be cheap or even free to use, however, it can require significant resources to maintain and operate. Manual deployment and modification processes without automation or detection add to the effort.

"The solution is cheap."
"The solution is free to use."
"Even though Icinga's financial cost is low, it is an expensive product regarding the resources required to maintain and operate it."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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