Icinga
Enterprise Open Source Monitoring
Monitoring & alerting
With Icinga, you can monitor all your systems in real time. Create and customize your own checks, dashboards and notifications. Subdivide your monitoring for different teams, work areas and customers and issue targeted alerts. Simply monitor everything – in just one tool.
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ICINGA Features
Monitor everything
We build your monitoring solution with you – without restrictions. NETWAYS plans, builds and helps operate Icinga to monitor servers, applications, networks and integrates all other sources of monitoring data into Icinga. We help you to understand Icinga and customize it to your needs!
Alert
NETWAYS configures e-mail and SMS notifications for you to ensure that you are informed immediately if a problem occurs. We help you to set up and prioritize your notifications logically and with Icinga Notifications everyone involved is always in the picture.
Reporting
Together, we create meaningful SLA reports, combine the most important measured values in business processes with you and create dashboards for every desired use case. With Icinga, you have a complete overview of all important business processes in your IT landscape.
Icinga Web
The screenshot shows an overview of the Icinga web interface, in which the various components and functions of the dashboard are clearly explained.
Icinga Web offers simple tab navigation to quickly jump to important information.
If you click on elements in Icinga, a new view opens on the right-hand side and allows you to quickly jump between views.
Performance data can be embedded and displayed directly in Icinga Web via modules such as Grafana.
Get a quick overview of whether a check is OK or whether problems have been found.
In the list view of the service checks, you can quickly see whether there are any current problems.
Icinga indicates in the navigation menu when modules report information, warnings or problems.
Personalized registration! Icinga Web allows connection to directory services such as Active Directory and thus offers full multi-client capability.
The Icinga Web navigation bar can be extended with custom PHP modules or filtered views in menu structures.
Using the action bar, various interactions such as setting downtimes, re-scheduling checks or acknowledging problems can be carried out quickly and easily.
Quickly recognize when a problem has occurred or how long it has been okay again.
Icinga Consulting
We help you with the design, installation and integration of Icinga in your environment – for more power, know-how and peace of mind!
Power
We have been successfully supporting our customers in the operation of their IT infrastructures for many years. Whether it’s different industries, tools or operating systems – we’ve seen, operated and built it all. With extensive experience in best practices around Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB and other open source technologies, especially in the Linux environment, we are at your side with our know-how.
Know-how
We not only understand your IT systems and services, but also the big picture – the numerous aspects that make up the operation of complex IT infrastructures. In a world where IT is becoming increasingly complex and constantly changing, there is often a lack of time and personnel. This is exactly where we come in to provide you with optimum support.
Targeted reinforcement
As Linux generalists and open source experts, we are broadly positioned and deeply networked in the open source communities. With us by your side, you are never alone! Whether as an IT consultant, engineer, support or architect – we strengthen your team, relieve you and take over the work so that you can concentrate on the essentials.
Icinga Trainings
Learn to efficiently monitor and analyze complex infrastructure
Icinga for beginners
This training provides the basic knowledge for the basic use and configuration of Icinga 2 and Icinga Web 2 in combination with the Icinga Director. This is illustrated in more detail by means of many practical exercises, real-life examples and the communication of best practices.
Icinga for advanced users
This training provides advanced knowledge for the use and configuration of Icinga 2 and Icinga Web 2 in combination with the Icinga Director. This is illustrated and deepened by means of many practical exercises, real-life examples and the communication of best practices.
Managed Icinga
Your fully preconfigured monitoring stack
Our Managed Icinga Master is your central solution for monitoring your IT infrastructure. It reliably shows you where problems are occurring in your area and even alerts you at night so that you can react quickly. With the managed version, you benefit from automatic updates, regular backups and an Icinga installation that is always up to date. The app simply runs – and you can concentrate fully on the smooth operation of your infrastructure.
Know-how
More know-how about Icinga
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Questions & Answers
The most frequently asked questions about Icinga.
Is Icinga free of charge?
Icinga is licensed under the GPL and all sources are freely available. The Icinga project provides ready-to-use packages for the most important community Linux distributions free of charge. For the official packages for Enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL, SLES, Amazon Linux) and for certain Icinga modules, either an Icinga subscription or an Icinga support contract is required.
Is Icinga open source?
Icinga is open source and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.
What is the difference between Nagios and Icinga?
Both Nagios and Icinga are open source monitoring tools, whereby Icinga was originally created as a fork of Nagios. Icinga offers a more modern user interface, supports a more powerful API and offers better scalability in large environments. However, Nagios is still widely used and has a large community as well as a large number of plugins and extensions. However, all Nagios plugins can also be used with Icinga, so migrating from Nagios to Icinga is the best way to switch to an up-to-date and active platform.
What can Icinga monitor?
Icinga can monitor a wide range of IT infrastructures, including servers, networks, applications and services. Icinga monitors both physical and virtual environments and can capture metrics such as CPU utilization, disk space, network availability and service response times. Custom plugins allow Icinga to be flexibly extended to monitor almost any type of system or process.
How does Icinga work?
Icinga is an open source monitoring tool that monitors IT infrastructures by checking hosts, services and networks in real time. It collects and analyzes data such as availability, performance and resource usage and warns of problems or failures via notifications. Thanks to its flexible architecture and integration with other tools such as Grafana and Prometheus, Icinga is suitable for both small and complex environments for monitoring and problem detection.
What does Icinga do?
Icinga monitors IT infrastructures by continuously checking servers, networks and applications for availability, performance and errors. It notifies administrators in the event of problems or failures, enabling a rapid response before critical faults occur. It also offers dashboards for visualizing system statuses and can be flexibly adapted to different environments using plugins and integrations.