--- description: Review of Icinga Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Icinga | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Application Performance Management Tools](/directory/4140/application-performance-management/software) > [Icinga](/software/304512/icinga) # Icinga Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/304512/icinga Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/304512/icinga?page=2) > Icinga is an open source IT monitoring platform built for organizations that manage complex and distributed infrastructures. IT teams use Icinga to monitor servers, network devices, cloud environments, Kubernetes workloads, applications, and business critical services from a centralized monitoring platform. Developed in Germany, Icinga combines open source flexibility with enterprise ready scalability and professional support options. The platform helps organizations improve operational visibility across on premises systems, cloud infrastructure, remote sites, and hybrid environments. By consolidating monitoring data from different technologies and locations, Icinga helps teams identify issues earlier, reduce downtime, and improve service reliability. Icinga supports infrastructure monitoring, network monitoring, server monitoring, cloud monitoring, and observability workflows within a unified architecture. Teams can track availability, performance metrics, service dependencies, and operational trends while correlating metrics, logs, and monitoring events for faster troubleshooting and root cause analysis. The monitoring architecture is designed for scalability and flexibility. Organizations can expand from small deployments to distributed environments with thousands of monitored hosts and services across multiple locations. Satellite components distribute workloads efficiently and support monitoring in segmented or geographically distributed networks. High availability capabilities help maintain monitoring continuity during outages and maintenance periods. Automation features help teams standardize monitoring operations and reduce manual administration. APIs, templates, and configuration as code practices support automated provisioning and consistent monitoring configurations across environments. The Icinga Director enables centralized configuration management and integrates with CMDBs, cloud platforms, inventory systems, and orchestration tools. Alerting and incident response workflows are designed to improve operational efficiency. Teams can configure escalations, maintenance windows, dependencies, and notification rules to reduce alert fatigue and improve response quality. Integrations with PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Slack, ServiceNow, email systems, and webhooks help ensure incidents reach the right teams quickly. Dashboards, reports, and visualization features provide operational transparency for infrastructure teams, management, and service owners. Metrics and log integrations deliver additional context for troubleshooting, analytics, and capacity planning. Icinga integrates with a broad ecosystem of DevOps, automation, observability, and IT operations tools. Thousands of plugins and extensions are available for monitoring databases, applications, cloud services, network infrastructure, and custom technologies. This flexibility allows organizations to adapt monitoring workflows to their own operational requirements without vendor lock in. The platform is used by enterprises, managed service providers, public sector organizations, and DevOps teams that require scalable, flexible, and vendor independent monitoring across hybrid and distributed infrastructures. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 45 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 45 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Icinga - **Location**: Nuremberg, Germany ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Other (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Icinga Monitoring is open source and free to use. Annual subscriptions are available for official Icinga support plans and certain operating system specific packages (AL, RHEL, SLES). Contact Icinga for pricing details. - **Target Audience**: 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: Catalan, English, European Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 208 more ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Alerts/Escalation - Alerts/Notifications - Application Management - Audit Trail - Bandwidth Monitoring - Capacity Management - Configuration Management - Customisable Reports - Dashboard - Data Visualisation - Diagnostic Tools - Downtime Tracking - Event Logs - IP Address Monitoring - Incident Management - Maintenance Scheduling - Multi-Location Monitoring - Network Analysis ## Integrations (22 total) - AlertOps - Ansible Automation Platform - Azure Application Gateway - Azure Virtual Machines - BigPanda - Elastic Observability - Elastic Stack - Grafana - Graylog - Hosted Graphite - InfluxDB - Jira - NetBox Cloud - OpsGenie - PagerDuty ... and 7 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Application Performance Management Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4140/application-performance-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Application Performance Management Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4140/application-performance-management/software) - [Server Monitoring Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4409/server-monitoring/software) - [Network Monitoring Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4307/network-monitoring/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Also core product needs some knowledge to set up and maintain. It is not just an install wizard. > > We chose to build our own knowledge about Icinga systems, so we don't rely on any support or vendor. It has it's challenges that open source projects like that bring with them, but community is large and solutions are generally easy to find. ----- ### "Monitor at scale with Icinga, a reliable and trustworthy partner." — 5.0/5 > **Johanna** | *23 December 2024* | Biotechnology | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Icinga really delivers. With Icinga you can monitor many different network devices in one tool. It also detects errors and anomalies and alerts us immediately. Icinga is a gem, I wish we've known it from before. > > **Cons**: A magnificent tool that helps us to monitor network interfaces for physical and virtual servers. > > A seamless set up with Icinga. The experience was worth it. ----- ### "Best monitoring for experienced linux system admin" — 5.0/5 > **Karsten** | *6 November 2024* | Industrial Automation | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Scalability, speed, security, usage of old monitoring checks are possible > > **Cons**: nothing, its one of the best available monitoring systems. But its not a "click" tool than can be used by > > Icinga cannot be used by inexperienced Linux system administrators. Also Windows "administrators" can also do little with it. ----- ### "Easy to use" — 4.0/5 > **Sebastien** | *1 April 2022* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy to use, to install. HA capability and satellite usage are greats features Windows Installation > > **Cons**: Reporting features are not great. If we need to create some reports of Availability module are not reporting somes informations or graph Grafana / graph integration is not easy Documentation is not complete Windows Integration and check are not easy to use. It will be great to install with the agent the powershell checks ----- ### "A cloud-native jack of all trades" — 4.0/5 > **Janne** | *5 April 2021* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Icinga is, even though it's already at this point in time a relatively mature open source project, getting updates released very frequently. It seems to be increasing the feature upside it has over its most direct competition, slowly, but surely. The API is also more straightforward in design over its direct competition. > > **Cons**: Graphs and visualization over longer time periods is really lacking or if existing, really difficult to use. The .conf file configuration also feels very old school now in 2021. > > Easy to deploy, in a cloud-native fashion using Icinga satellites, provides the core functionality nicely that anyone in their right mind is expecting from a monitoring system, but might lack some things that larger enterprises consider "mandatory". ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/304512/icinga?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/304512/icinga) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data