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Icinga pros and cons

Vendor: Icinga
3.8 out of 5
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PROS

Icinga automatically restarts services when they are down, enhancing system reliability.
Icinga supports many add-ons and hundreds of plugins, making it straightforward to monitor various systems.
The apply rules feature in Icinga significantly saves time in system management.
Icinga offers robust API and integration capabilities, allowing extensive automation and configuration possibilities.
Icinga enables users to create their own plugins and integrate them seamlessly, ensuring flexibility and customization.

CONS

Remote monitoring for multiple machines is frustrating.
The installation and configuration are very complex.
Icinga’s automation could be improved.
The tool fails to provide notifications to users.
Improvements are needed in multi-tenancy. It's average but should be improved.
 

Icinga Pros review quotes

Aditi Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 17, 2023
It is really easy in Icinga to create your own plugin and integrate it without any fuss. And it works just perfectly fine.
Icinga677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 23, 2019
An affordable solution for small organizations to do basic network monitoring.
RO
Dec 12, 2022
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.
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reviewer2292201 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 15, 2024
The ability to customize scripts and build your own queries to request information from the infrastructure elements you want to monitor. This level of personalization and customization is highly appreciated.
MW
Sep 22, 2019
This solution has a self-healing handler where if the service is down, it is automatically restarted.
YI
Oct 30, 2023
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.
Harrison Bulley - PeerSpot reviewer
May 25, 2023
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.
Lasse Wackers - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 4, 2023
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.
Aynalem Yehualaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 2, 2022
We have found the solution to be stable.
Claudio Kuenzler - PeerSpot reviewer
May 30, 2023
The apply rules feature saves a lot of time.
 

Icinga Cons review quotes

Aditi Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 17, 2023
One thing that Icinga lacks is the capability to create advanced and customized dashboards within the tool itself.
Icinga677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 23, 2019
The solution lacks many features important to higher-level IT management and network support.
RO
Dec 12, 2022
We have found some problems with Nagios, and support isn't very responsive.
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reviewer2292201 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 15, 2024
There is room for improvement in multi-tenancy. It's not perfect, not even really good. It's average, but it should be improved.
MW
Sep 22, 2019
One of the areas that are frustrating is remote monitoring for more than one machine.
YI
Oct 30, 2023
The tool currently fails to provide notifications to users.
Harrison Bulley - PeerSpot reviewer
May 25, 2023
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.
Lasse Wackers - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 4, 2023
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.
Aynalem Yehualaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 2, 2022
The installation and configuration are very complex.
Claudio Kuenzler - PeerSpot reviewer
May 30, 2023
The user interface should be improved.