Icinga Information Reviews & Insights

Score7.8 out of 10

21 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for Icinga are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

User-Friendly Configuration Language: Many users have found the configuration language of Icinga to be understandable and easy to grasp, making it simple to add additional hosts and services. This suggests that the configuration language is user-friendly and facilitates the setup process for reviewers.

Scalability and High Configurability: Reviewers appreciate the scalability and high configurability of Icinga, as it can accommodate growth and adapt to different monitoring needs effectively. This ensures that the system remains flexible and capable of meeting evolving requirements for a significant number of users.

Beautiful Web User Interface: The visually appealing web user interface of Icinga has been praised by reviewers, enhancing their overall experience with the platform. Its attractive design contributes to a positive user experience by providing an aesthetically pleasing environment for monitoring and managing systems.

Icinga Reviews

2 Reviews

InformationComputer Software1Internet1

Icinga a free monitoring solution

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 3, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Andre Zielinski

IT-Administrator in Information Technology at g.on experience gmbh (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Icinga monitoring tools

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 4, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Icinga 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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Icinga is a good tool for monitoring all aspects of your infrastructure. Because Nagios/Icinga are very customizable, you can monitor anything. I wouldn't use this tool for time series data or trending. There aren't graphs or at least we haven't used the graphing features.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Internet company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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