--- title: "Icinga Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Icinga. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Icinga is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/icinga-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Database Monitoring Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-monitoring/) / [Icinga](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/icinga-profile/) / Icinga Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/icinga-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/icinga-profile/alternatives/) # Icinga User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 47 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Value for money: 4.8/5 - Functionality: 4.7/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 33 reviews (70%) - 4 stars: 14 reviews (30%) - 3 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Icinga is my go-to cybersecurity tool as it can combine real time monitoring and automation, and is equally very customizable, streamlining my workflows and keep systems running smoothly. - Icinga offers very powerful data safety and privacy features that allow us to securely monitor our infrastructure without putting our data at risk of cyber attacks. - setting it up to my own servers is easy enough and the installation process is very straightforward when it comes to setting it up on my own servers. ### Most mentioned cons - The main drawback is the initial learning curve regarding Ease of Use—setting up advanced host dependencies and custom DSL rules can feel overwhelming for non-technical users or beginners. - Grafana / graph integration is not easy - Graphs and visualization over longer time periods is really lacking or if existing, really difficult to use. ## Icinga customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 47 (page 1). ### Icinga - customizable but not easy - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Andraž K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Icinga - a versatile software with lot's of potential to be customized for every need - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nicolas S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Getting started with Icinga can have a steep learning curve, which is understandable since setting it up in a convenient way requires Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2, and Icinga [sensitive content hidden]. The versatility adds to the complexity, but once you have a solid overview of the technology stack, your monitoring capabilities are nearly limitless. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I think Icinga 2 is highly customizable. You can create custom check plugins or implement web-based enhancements. There's also an active community. #### Cons I don't like the "new" theme but since that is adaptable too, this is not really a problem #### Reasons for choosing Icinga When I was choosing a monitoring backend, the community forums for other open-source alternatives were not as active as community.icinga.com. --- ### Excellent monitoring toolbox with room to grow - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Dennis L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Having used Icinga 1 and now Icinga 2 for many years managing hundreds of hosts with thousands of services, there is just nothing like it. The development team has continued to shed past technical debt and continues to provide an excellent monitoring system. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Simple and infinite extensibility, powerful configuration language that lends itself well to automation, scalability. #### Cons Overcomplicated and underdocumented clustering setup, often no clear best practices, fragmented landscape #### Reasons for switching to Icinga Community-focused product with a strong foundation in nagios/Icinga 1. --- ### A cloud-native jack of all trades - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Janne M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Reliable platform for network monitoring - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Gabriel F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ability to monitor physical and virtual network interface for error and bugs detection in real-time. Collect critical metrics like bandwidth distribution, usage and network capacity support in peak season and use the data for improvement. #### Cons No dislike, only satisfied experience. Many new use case after the deployment and very effective in solving network errors and report insights. --- ### Robust tools and features for network monitoring - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Francesco S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Investment Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Most complete and advanced open source monitoring system. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joshua M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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 - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Great and fantastic monitoring tool with all the monitoring features. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andrew K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Real Estate - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience with Icinga has really been fantastic. It's a powerful and easy to use network monitoring tool. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Powerful Monitoring system. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ilir M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to track as contacts can be imported in the monitoring system and easy to assign tasks to team. #### Cons I haven't faced seriou challenges with icinga and i like the interface for being so friendly and flexible. --- ### A tool that takes ease network monitoring to managing to another level - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Leye A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience using icinga has simply been satisfactory. it has been an incredibly flexible tool, making it easy for me to monitor everything in one place while automating tasks and providing valuable insights into my network. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I have found Icinga to be incredibly helpful. it lets me monitor anything with an IP address effortlessly. One of my favorite features is the automation, which takes care of a lot of the repetitive tasks, saving me tons of time during the monitoring process. Its powerful analytics have also been game changeing, giving me valuable insights into my network’s infrastructure that I wouldn’t have caught otherwise. Honestly, it is a versatile tool I use that centralizes everything is centralized in one place, making it super convenient as well #### Cons I really can't think of any, I am in awe of the innovation behind it. --- ### The reason I employ icinga - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rejoice O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Icinga is my go-to cybersecurity tool as it can combine real time monitoring and automation, and is equally very customizable, streamlining my workflows and keep systems running smoothly. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Icinga is a highly flexible tool that makes it easy for me to create custom checks or add new features through its web interface. Its automation features are a huge time saver that makes monitoring tasks quicker and more straightforward for me. the live dashboards and notifications are incredibly useful as they give a clear view of our systems so we can catch and fix problems early. any cyber security pro should definitely consider employing icinga #### Cons None to report, I have a very pleasant experience using icinga --- ### Icinga Has Been So Impressive and Friendly to Use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Abed M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros With Icinga, we usually enjoy efficiency and reliability. It has been a top and easy to manage infrastructure monitoring solution. #### Cons I love how organized and flawless Icinga has been. It has been so amazing to our company. --- ### fantastic software monitoring !! amazing! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: walter b. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Networking - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I'm currently monitoring around 11k nodes. 35k services and 7 satellites in total #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Exceptional monitoring software. complete and customizable. essential for my work #### Cons graphically not exciting It's not easy to update --- ### Simple Monitoring tool focused in automation - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stefano B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to configure and use.It is very impressive a way to automize the tool. #### Cons If you install Icinga in RHEL system you must to pay a subscription in order to access to It repository for update the software --- ### The ultimate tool for server monitoring - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Dylan E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. After getting past the initial hurdle of setup, the software worked exactly as advertised and allowed our company to have much better monitoring of our servers. It has also allowed us to get much more information about these servers than before that helps us determine business priorities. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The build-in icingaweb plugin is great and allows our less-technical employees to still use this application. Initial set-up can be tricky, but the community following is great and generally very helpful. Extending the number of hosts or services checked is a breezy, with easy "clone this object" functionalities on the web interface, or detailed customization for the sysadmin. The fact that you can customize alerting for a specific time of day for your various users is a life-saver. #### Cons As stated before, the initial set-up is tricky, with varying steps needed depending on the OS it is running on. Also, installing an agent on the servers that need to be monitored requires some trial and error. As with any complicated piece of software, the learning curve is quite steep. --- ### Excellent evoloution of Nagion - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Glyn A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Good #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Extends on Nagios feature set and receives more regular updates. #### Cons "2.0" theme is awful, clunky and hard to work with. Original classic theme dating back to Nagios era works best. --- ### Reliable, highly scalable infrastructure monitoring with unmatched flexibility - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Akansha C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, Icinga provides a rock-solid, highly customizable framework for enterprise-grade infrastructure health tracking. Once you navigate the initial configuration learning curve, the granular control over host Monitoring, dependable real-time Alerts, and integrated status dashboards for host metrics and Log Management make it an invaluable tool that offers top-tier Value for Money. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros What I like most about Icinga is its robust Monitoring capabilities and flexible, real-time Alerts engine. It seamlessly scales across large server environments and cloud infrastructure, ensuring our team gets instant notifications before minor outages become critical. Its ability to integrate smoothly with third-party platforms for Log Management makes root-cause analysis much faster. Plus, being an open-source framework, it delivers extraordinary Value for Money compared to expensive proprietary monitoring software. #### Cons The main drawback is the initial learning curve regarding Ease of Use—setting up advanced host dependencies and custom DSL rules can feel overwhelming for non-technical users or beginners. Additionally, community-based Customer Support can take time to resolve niche deployment edge cases unless you purchase paid official enterprise support. Regarding Bugs and Issues, we occasionally experience minor UI rendering glitches in Icinga Web 2 after applying major module updates, which require clearing cache or re-validating configurations. --- ### Reliable Monitoring Tool with Strong Customization - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mahesh M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, my experience with Icinga has been good. It is a stable and dependable monitoring solution that provides accurate insights and helps in proactive issue detection. Once properly configured, it runs efficiently and supports day-to-day operations without major issues. It’s a solid choice for teams looking for a customizable monitoring tool. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros What I like most about Icinga is its flexibility and strong monitoring capabilities. It allows deep visibility into infrastructure, including servers, network devices, and services. The alerting system is reliable, and customization options are quite powerful, which helps in adapting it to different environments. It works well for both on-prem and cloud setups. #### Cons The initial setup and configuration can be time-consuming, especially for someone new to the platform. The user interface could be more modern and intuitive. Also, advanced configurations sometimes require strong technical knowledge and manual effort. #### Reasons for choosing Icinga Icinga offered better flexibility and customization compared to the other tools we evaluated. It was easier to adapt to our environment, especially for monitoring mixed infrastructure, and gave us more control without heavy licensing costs. --- ### Icinga is a transformative tool that help embrace smart technology in infrastructure monitoring. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nancy S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Games - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Since i started using Icinga, my work life as a infrastructure monitoring supervisor has become so much easier. I have had a great experience using Icinga to monitor our infrastructure. It provides us with a clear view of the entire infrastructure making it easy for us to ensure all systems are healthy and functioning properly. Icinga makes it easy to identify and solve any incidents that might affect the performance of our infrastructure. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Icinga is a flexible tool and it give us an easy time customizing it to match our needs. It has very advanced infrastructure analytics which offers precise insights to help us understand our infrastructure better. Icinga reporting tools allow us to create detailed yet easy to read reports about the status of our infrastructure. It is equipped with automations which help speed up the routine monitoring tasks like data collection. Icinga offers very powerful data safety and privacy features that allow us to securely monitor our infrastructure without putting our data at risk of cyber attacks. #### Cons Even after using it for years, I have not noticed anything wrong with Icinga. It has everything streamlined and operating perfectly. --- ### Icinga the good and bad - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Kevin C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I use Icinga to monitor our on‑prem servers, VMs, and network gear. It handles real‑time health checks, alerts us when something goes wrong, and gives us a clear dashboard view of what’s up and what’s down. I also integrate it with our automation tools so we can push configs and manage checks more easily. #### Cons Initial setup is not “click next, next, done.” You need to plan your architecture, configure hosts and services, and get comfortable with the Icinga way of doing things. --- ### I'm happy with it and I'm not thinking about switching at the moment. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Miquel G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Government Administration - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've been using Icinga for five years, and I haven't considered switching for a moment. It meets all my expectations. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I used to use Nagios. Compared to Nagios, I really like the configuration method. Now I have many templates and variables, and defining new hosts and services is very fast. Is all free. #### Cons I have no complaints about the product icinga. #### Reasons for switching to Icinga Compatibility problems with Debian Linux/GNU. Application is no longer free --- ### Tested, Approved and verified, Icinga is the best - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mario G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It did well to us and it's pricing plan favored my small businesses. A ten over ten software. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros You can look allover but trust me no softwares matches with Icinga, it's authenticity and it's excellent features enables it to perform well.For all your monitoring problem,you better opt for Icinga it never dissapoints. #### Cons Nothing. It has a magnificent way of delivering to it's users. The minor problems were easy to handle. #### Reasons for switching to Icinga My of my new employees suggested that we used Icinga. And it has proved to be the best. --- ### Secure and safe monitoring. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bwire G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Icinga is very easy to use, safe and secure in monitoring systems, it has a highly military upgraded data encryption. #### Cons Icinga is versatile and flexible solution for monitoring systems and somehow complex. It has no dislikes. --- ### Smart monitoring tool with user friendly interface - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: DEVENDRA G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### IT System administrator - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mario B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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 ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/icinga-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Icinga Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice