Icinga

Best distributed monitoring platform

What do you like best? Easy configuration using files. No UI. So it can be automated by any provisioning software(puppet, ansible, chef) What do you dislike? Outdated UI compared to competitors. Not frequent updates. Lack of extensions. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Distributed monitoring of services and servers. Time-based notifications.

Icinga is great, icinga2 is better.

What do you like best? I've worked with Icinga in multiple organizations, spanning thousands of devices. I love the configurability of the Icinga framework, although for admins new to the platform it may seem intimidating to edit the config files. Icinga2 brings additional features that help automate and configure with less flat file configuration needed but neither product should be brought in lightly. They both require a lot of work up front to be tuned in such a way as to provide ...

Great interface, very easy and practical for use

What do you like best? The dashboard is very user-friendly, you can see alerts for services, ceased alerts, and alerts for hosts. Also, black skin is great. What do you dislike? When you click on alert history it is a little bit untransparent, also it will be great to make one dashlet for acknowledged alerts separately. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I'm monitoring Linux servers and services, also windows server and services, ...

Icinga, la alternativa a Nagios

What do you like best? La gran cantidad de plugins/modulos que soporta, la cantidad de sistemas que puede integrar para su monitorizacion: * Redes * Componentes de red * Notificaciones * Niveles de alerta * Interfaces La gran cantidad de mejoras que tiene con respecto a Nagios, y la compatibilidad con sus módulos. What do you dislike? Algunas alarmas pueden tener un delay, segun lo grande que se el sistema de monitorizacion, y pueden dar falsos positivos, aunque en ...

Monitoring Review

What do you like best? It is very flexible to monitoring of services and the speed,It has a rich configuration language that allows expression of complex configurations in a minimal amount of text, allowing monitoring configurations to be written quickly and concisely What do you dislike? It would be appreciated if there is a good support What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I worked on a NOC project where we used Icinga for monitoring ...

Icinga Monitoring in my work

What do you like best? - Deployment Icinga on many datacenter base on satellite architecture - Management Icinga configuration on the web - Configuration hosts, metrics, alarm are very like - Easy to make custom scripts What do you dislike? - Architecture installation is complex - Icinga agent takes a lot of resource of host - Deployment Icinga agent on auto scaling host is complex What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? - Deploy ...

A great user interface design software

What do you like best? As a free, accessible, and full open sourcing project, Icinga Monitoring offers many organizational monitoring solutions, particularly for hosts and simple analytics alerting, as well as reliable codebase to the decentralized control. I feel like Icinga Monitoring is simpler than other software and it has the most simple securities functionalities you need. Also, It has some good features to use Active Directory or LDAP for accesses. What do you dislike? The ...

Icinga administrator feedback

What do you like best? Icinga allows use a whole range of Nagios checks, plus is has much more comfortable visual interface, including a visual configuration tool (Icinga Director) What do you dislike? Icinga Director doesn't support some important function, e.g. configuration of regular maintenance time slots or dependencies of entities, despite the fact that Icinga itself allows it What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Well-timed and ...

Robust, customizable monitoring software with a moderate leaving curve.

What do you like best? Easily customizable, quick to deploy. Scalable if needed. Can support auto-adding of devices, bandwidth between devices. Can monitor any service needed or a simple snmp/ping test What do you dislike? While easy to deploy, customizing does have a moderate learning curve What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Solves the monitoring problem, single pane of glass for many different vendors and devices.

The most complete open-source monitoring system

What do you like best? It is open source and free, meaning the software is easily extendible. All Nagios plugins, as well as all the community plugins are usable with Icinga. You can use alot of advanced features, including check scheduling, notification escalation or a very detailed user access and management system. It is very easy to extend the system with extra checks or hosts due to the templating system. What do you dislike? The setup of the software can be quite complicated ...