We performed a comparison between Icinga and Meraki Dashboard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"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."
"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 does the job and is fairly stable."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"The value of Icinga is that it has hundreds of plugins, so it's really easy to monitor pretty much anything."
"The apply rules feature saves a lot of time."
"It is really easy in Icinga to create your own plugin and integrate it without any fuss. And it works just perfectly fine."
"The drafts are easy but what I like about Icinga is that there are many add-ons that you can download."
"We like the visibility this solution gives us of the infrastructure."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"What I love most about the Meraki Dashboard are its user-friendly features."
"It's a scalable solution."
"Easy to configure with great troubleshooting feature."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The tool currently fails to provide notifications to users."
"The installation and configuration are very complex."
"One of the areas that are frustrating is remote monitoring for more than one machine."
"We have found some problems with Nagios, and support isn't very responsive."
"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."
"I think the software is quite good, but we have had problems with getting it to recognize certain areas and amend certain checks, where we needed so we would have to create backend scripts for those checks. Though, being open source, it has the support to create backend scripts, it would be better to have these scripts in-built."
"It needs Trap SNMP. I saw the documentation for Zabbix, that it has its own built-in product which handles SNMP traps, and there's nothing similar in Icinga or Nagios. I think this feature is most important for me."
"Icinga’s automation could be improved."
"Price could be reduced."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
"It is not appropriate for large, enterprise businesses."
"The tool needs to incorporate more integration platforms. Integrating technical support features directly into the dashboard would be highly beneficial. This would allow technicians to troubleshoot issues more efficiently."
"The MDM, however, is bad. We're using another MDM now because Meraki was so bad."
"Third-party switches do not necessarily integrate easily with the system and this could be improved to allow for better adaptation."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to create a floor plan based on an existing PDF or JPEG, which is automatically converted into a usable network map."
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Icinga is ranked 22nd in Network Monitoring Software with 17 reviews while Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews. Icinga is rated 7.6, while Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Icinga writes "A stable, scalable and cost-effective solution that helps with inbuilt scripts for easy modification". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". Icinga is most compared with Zabbix, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix. See our Icinga vs. Meraki Dashboard report.
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