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Icinga 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Icinga
Icinga
4.7
(44)
FrontRunner 2026

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

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About Icinga

The German company Icinga GmbH is an open-source manufacturer for infrastructure monitoring. Its customers include global enterprises, many government institutions, and numerous mid-sized companies all over the world and in all verticals.

The solution is open source and free to use. Support subscriptions are payable.

KEY FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY:

Collect data and evaluate the performance of all systems for fast troubleshooting and future-proof capacity planning. The Icinga 6-in-1 Stack is an enterprise-ready solution that integrates easily in existing infrastructures and is unbeatable in configuration possibilities, automation, and scaling. Icinga stands out with its flexibility and is perfect for large and diverse environments.

PRODUCT VALUES:

• OBSERVE ENTIRE IT IN ONE PLACE:

Gain full visibility on the health, work, and performance of all systems and applications. Icinga brings it all together, instantly informs users when an error occurs, and enables them to localize and solve it quickly. It helps prevent outages and optimize IT.

• MONITOR MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF DATA:

Manage workload with ease, gain speed and reduce error rates. Automatically import and synchronize thir...

d-party data from various sources. APIs allow users to manage configuration objects and resources in a simple, programmatic way. Use versioned config to roll back to older stages of monitoring. • MONITOR PRIVATE, PUBLIC AND HYBRID CLOUDS: Enjoy the uniform handling of monitoring different clouds and stay independent of a user's provider. Automatically synchronize with the state of the environment. Or run Icinga in the cloud. • GET THE CONTEXT AND RECOGNIZE TRENDS: Icinga collects metrics and searches for patterns directly in the user's log files and log management tools. Combine and visualize check results, metrics, and logs in one clean web interface and get a perfect overview. • GAIN A FAST OVERVIEW AND DEEP INSIGHTS: Only look at data that is important to understand the system’s overall health and certain aspects of it. Business process modeling, reports and custom dashboards help by merging scattered data for specific use cases. With Icinga’s built-in dashboards users can create custom overviews based on filtered results. • GET ALERTED AND REACT WITH CONFIDENCE: Receive notifications whenever important conditions are identified and be ready to react before issues become problems. Stay informed through any channel. Icinga allows easy management of teams, users, and contacts. Simply import contacts and guide teams by assigning them to specific parts of the environment.

Icinga User Interface

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Icinga Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request
Free Trial
Free Version

Open Source

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

    Icinga Features

    • Popular features found in Network Monitoring
      Bandwidth Monitoring
      Baseline Manager
      Data Visualization
      Device Auto Discovery
      Incident Management
      IP Address Monitoring
      Network Analysis
      Patch Management
      Real-Time Data
      Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
      Threshold Alerts
      Uptime Reporting
    • More features of Icinga
      Access Controls/Permissions
      Alerts/Escalation
      Alerts/Notifications
      API
      Application Management
      Audit Trail
      Capacity Management
      Configuration Management
      Customizable Reports
      Dashboard
      Diagnostic Tools
      Downtime Tracking
      Event Logs
      Maintenance Scheduling
      Multi-Location Monitoring
      Network Mapping
      Network Monitoring
      Network Resource Management
      Performance Metrics
      Performance Monitoring
      Real-Time Monitoring
      Remote Monitoring & Management
      Reporting/Analytics
      Reporting & Statistics
      Search/Filter
      Server Monitoring
      Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
      SSL Security
      Third-Party Integrations
      Troubleshooting
      User Management
      Virtualization
      Web Traffic Reporting

    Icinga Integrations

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    Elastic Stack
    Elastic Stack

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    Icinga User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.7

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    73%

    4

    27%

    3

    0%

    2

    0%

    1

    0%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    4.4

    Value for money

    4.8

    Customer support

    4.4

    Functionality

    4.7

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    DEVENDRA G.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    1001-5000 employees

    Used weekly for less than 2 years

    Reviewed February 2025

    Smart monitoring tool with user friendly interface

    5

    Overall experience has always been positive, by its monitoring functionality it provides great usecase. It also give great API support

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    It has most reliable monitoring tool which helps in getting details health checkups. It is very scalable with big infrastructure. It easily integrates with other tools for automation and monitoring
    Cons:
    Setup is little tricky and require manual work . Need more experience resource to setup

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    KF
    Karsten F.

    Verified reviewer

    Industrial Automation

    10000+ employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Reviewed November 2024

    Best monitoring for experienced linux system admin

    5

    Icinga cannot be used by inexperienced Linux system administrators. Also Windows "administrators" can also do little with it.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    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

    Reasons for choosing Icinga

    performance, security, flexibility, use of old checks

    Reasons for switching to Icinga

    missing functionality, pricing, overall support

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    Andraž K.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    11-50 employees

    Used weekly for less than 2 years

    Reviewed July 2023

    Icinga - customizable but not easy

    4

    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.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    It is free and very flexible. Community is large and develops many extensions to the core project.
    Cons:
    It has constant development that can be a problem with outside plugins that are not supported so professionally. Also core product needs some knowledge to set up and maintain. It is not just an install wizard.

    Reasons for choosing Icinga

    Pricing and performance and inhouse knowledge.

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    SG
    Sebastien G.

    Verified reviewer

    Internet

    11-50 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Reviewed April 2022

    Easy to use

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Functionality
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    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

    Reasons for choosing Icinga

    The performance, the HA capability

    Reasons for switching to Icinga

    Performance issues with Nagios3 Some bugs with Shinken Some bugs on Zabbix

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    Janne M.

    Verified reviewer

    Telecommunications

    10000+ employees

    Used weekly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2021

    A cloud-native jack of all trades

    4

    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".

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    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.

    Reasons for choosing Icinga

    It was chosen as the tool that is easiest to setup for a service that was already live, but was lacking 24/7 operations. Ease of implementation, speed of deployment, cloud nativity and adequate feature set were the criteria.

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    FS
    Francesco S.

    Verified reviewer

    Investment Management

    201-500 employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Reviewed April 2025

    Robust tools and features for network monitoring

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    IT network monitoring is now easy and simplified as we now only need one tools to run network devices from different brands or manufacturer. Before, we have to use several tools for each network devices and it took too much of our resources and adding more manual and repetitive tasks. The system detect error and problem instantly and sent alert to system administrator before the problem become too big to be handled.
    Cons:
    Setup and configuration of Incinga with our network environment is complex and time consuming. I don't think we are able to deploy it without the lending hand from Incinga's customer support team.

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    AK
    Andrew K.

    Verified reviewer

    Real Estate

    2-10 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Reviewed April 2025

    Great and fantastic monitoring tool with all the monitoring features.

    5

    My experience with Icinga has really been fantastic. It's a powerful and easy to use network monitoring tool.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    I started using Icinga a few years ago and so far i love it. It has reliable monitoring tools which are easy to learn and use. I like the fact that you can monitor many different network devices in one tool.
    Cons:
    I really can't think of any right now. Icinga is a reliable and cost-effective tool.

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    AC
    Abigail C.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    2-10 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Reviewed November 2024

    Keeping our network infrastructure in check with Icinga, a powerful network monitoring tool.

    5

    Icinga has made it easy for us to gain a deeper and clearer view of the real-time status of our network infrastructure at any given time. The experience of monitoring our network infrastructure with Icinga has been very lucid.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Icinga uses automations that help us automate most of the tasks during monitoring making the whole process quick. Its powerful analytics help us discover very useful insights about our network infrastructure. Icinga live dashboards provide us with a real-time view of the current status and conditions of our infrastructure making it easy to detect any issues in the early stages. It has an alert system that always sends notifications any time an incident is detected in our infrastructure giving us ample time to respond abd rectify the issue.
    Cons:
    We have not had any problems with Icinga. Nothing about it has made us complain.

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    MB
    Mario B.

    Verified reviewer

    Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2025

    IT System administrator

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    My experience with Icinga started some years ago. We were looking for an open source and reliable system monitoring. I noted the nice user interface in the first version of Icinga 1.0. It was the right choice. They continuously improve the product.
    Cons:
    Plugins are great. Icinga [sensitive content hidden] is a simple way to create objects Callable by api for external integration Great User Interface Business processes is a great way to organize layout process

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    Vaidotas R.

    Verified reviewer

    Banking

    201-500 employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Reviewed December 2024

    Breaking down transparency and problem solving.

    5

    Eliminating errors with advanced analytics and up-to-date insights without manual intervention.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Instead of manually tracking resource data and demand trends, Icinga has capacity forecasting tools using algorithm to provide real-time insights and accurate projections.
    Cons:
    Apart from initial setup being complicated, Icinga is flawless.

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