I like the ability to amend and adjust things really easily, which is useful in a case where you could make it auto-discover and then set a template to say all of these applications or servers under this template have an automatic threshold set that you’d set up manually.

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. There are Ansible Collections available to manage services and hosts. Therefore, we were able to automate the installation of a new Icinga satellite for new customers.

To manage Hosts, Icinga provides the Icinga Director. This software talks to a CMDB in the background and imports new hosts or edit hosts that already exist.

The apply rules feature saves a lot of time. For example, if you have 15 web servers, you can create one service and apply it to all 15 machines.

The monitoring has been good. 

It's a very interesting tool in general. 

We have found the solution to be stable. 

The solution can scale if necessary.

There's a module called Icinga Director, which helps us configure the product using an intuitive interface through clicks instead of creating a text configuration. It's very helpful for us.

Regarding the experience, we are pretty excited about Icinga. 

First of all, what I like about Icinga is the capacity and the extent to which we can use it. Although we have a library built-in where we can find hundreds and thousands of plugins for our use case, there are times when we are stuck on a block where we don't find any plugin that matches our taste or our requirements. In that case, it is really easy in Icinga to create your own plugin and integrate it without any fuss. And it works just perfectly fine.

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.

The most valuable feature is one that not many are even aware of. Icinga has an event handler. This solution has a self-healing handler where if the service is down, it is automatically restarted. Not all monitoring solutions offer this feature.

The handler was deployed to take action after the monitoring station has received a critical alarm or a warning alarm. You can configure the handler to take action after the critical alarm without human interaction.

Also, we have used the integration between Icinga and terraform. When Terraform starts using a new VM it communicates to the APIs with Icinga, then puts the machine at the Icinga portal.

The GUI is very good; it is open-source and it's easy to implement.

The NRPE interactions are fine, and the Graphite is good, but there is another source called Grafan and it is better.

Icinga does the job and is fairly stable.

The value of Icinga is that it has hundreds of plugins, so it's really easy to monitor pretty much anything. The huge spectrum of plugins enables users to monitor different technologies. That is Icinga's advantage. It is also open source.

Icinga2 was designed to delegate, distribute and balance tasks between several nodes. I like the clustering feature and running satellite servers, which check their own zones and report back to the masters. Truly a distributed monitoring solution!

I don't know what features are best because I don't like this solution, it seems inadequate, and I only use very basic features. You can get basic information out if it, like the number of devices, iOS, the model, this kind of stuff. But I am not able to find some more detailed information that is important. It may be that we have not deployed all the plugins. At this time we are not doing any research into expanding the deployment because we believe there are better alternatives. My team and I just inherited this solution by default from the previous IT person who deployed it. For now, we're just using it as it is with some workarounds. As it will likely not be deployed much longer, we are not doing any research on it or changing any functionality.

The drafts are easy but what I like about Icinga is that there are many add-ons that you can download.

The user interface is good, it's open-source, and it's easy to use.

Network Services and Host Monitoring. Quick view of server status.

Object-oriented configuration.

• Macros
• Possibility to connect it to Google Maps