Icinga 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Icinga

4.7

(44)

FrontRunner 2026

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

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...

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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

Ansible Automation Platform

Grafana

Elastic Observability

Terraform

BigPanda

Elastic Stack

See all 15 integrations

Icinga User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

73%

27%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.7

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

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

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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

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

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

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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

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

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

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

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.

Sebastien G.

Verified reviewer

Internet

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Easy to use

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

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

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

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

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

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.

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

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

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.

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

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Joshua M.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed May 2025

Most complete and advanced open source monitoring system.

Icinga is really easy to set up and from the very beginning and very easy to make the configuration. Icinga has a very good and transparent documentation.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

First, i like that Icinga is an open source, which means that the software is easily extendible. It is very easy to extend the system with extra checks or hosts due to the templating system.

Cons:

The learning process is a quite high, as with any other complex software package.

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

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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

Ilir M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed April 2025

Powerful Monitoring system.