# Page 2 | Icinga Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Icinga the right Network Monitoring solution for you? Explore 44 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/163153/Icinga/reviews --- Icinga 4.7 (44) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/163153/Icinga/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Icinga ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-44 of 44 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use RS Raimond S. Cyber Security Engineer Computer Networking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "All the monitoring features you need in a single tool, Icinga is the real gem." December 18, 2024 5.0 Powerful and easy to use tool to monitor your entire network. Create highly customizable reports. A wonderful experience. Pros Icinga is a flawless and flexible monitoring tool. Analyze your entire IT networks with Icinga. Very secure and has a lot of incredible features. Cons For me I have nothing to complain. It works perfectly just as we expected. Review Source Vaidotas R. Country Manager Banking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Breaking down transparency and problem solving." December 23, 2024 5.0 Eliminating errors with advanced analytics and up-to-date insights without manual intervention. 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. Review Source JM Jaime M. Regional Sales Manager Industrial Automation Used the software for: 2+ years ### "You asked for it and they delivered, Icinga is a game changer." October 30, 2024 5.0 A satisfied user. I highly recommend it is want to elevate your standards. Pros Manage massive amounts of monitoring objects with Icinga. An easy to use software which helps us create reports with our existing data for different aspects. With Icinga you can collect and send data to many of our existing DevOps tools. So accurate and trustworthy. Cons Icinga is perfectly created to satisfy it's users needs. Keep up with good work. Review Source AM Abed M. Director of Operations Management Consulting Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Icinga Has Been So Impressive and Friendly to Use" November 26, 2024 5.0 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. Review Source MR Markus R. DevOps Engineer Internet Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great all-in-one solution" October 29, 2024 4.0 Works great for us, a team of five people. Pros Open Source, Self-hostable, Public Documentation, Widely supported, Checks can be written completely by yourself, great Community. Cons The existing Docker containers seem rather experimental. The community seems to install Icinga largely without Docker - But that works great! Review Source KS Kamlesh S. Network monitor Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Amazing and Powerful Monitoring with a Steep Learning Curve" October 31, 2024 5.0 its seamless integration with various metrics and logs makes it incredibly versatile and powerful Pros Its comprehensive infrastructure monitoring with its scalability and extensibility Cons It has complex initial setup and configuration. Review Source Andraž K. Systems Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Icinga - customizable but not easy" July 3, 2023 4.0 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. 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. Alternatives considered [SolarWinds Service Desk](https://www.capterra.com/p/129478/Solarwinds-Service-Desk/)[Splunk Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/94317/Splunk/)[Nagios Core](https://www.capterra.com/p/152751/Nagios-Core/) Reason for choosing Icinga Pricing and performance and inhouse knowledge. Review Source MD Michele D. System Administrator Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "icinga: great open source tool for real-time monitoring " June 28, 2023 4.0 Icinga works great in real-time monitoring and can be easily integrated with other tools (Slack, emails, etc.) for notifications. Pros Icinga allows you to monitor all your hosts and services/applications in one place, allowing for extensive and deep customization by means of templates and ad-hoc scripts. Cons It is quite complicated, at least at the beginning, to understand how the Icinga system works. You need to understand how services, groups, templates, commands, rules work before implementing your checks. Alternatives considered [NetEye](https://www.capterra.com/p/215274/NetEye/) Review Source SG Sebastien G. Sys Admin Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy to use " April 1, 2022 4.0 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 Alternatives considered [Centreon](https://www.capterra.com/p/234559/Centreon/)[Nagios Core](https://www.capterra.com/p/152751/Nagios-Core/) Reason for choosing Icinga The performance, the HA capability Switched from [Zabbix](https://www.capterra.com/p/135902/Zabbix-Monitoring-Solution/)[Nagios Core](https://www.capterra.com/p/152751/Nagios-Core/) Performance issues with Nagios3 Some bugs with Shinken Some bugs on Zabbix Review Source SB Stefano B. IT Service Manager Operation and Monitoring Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Simple Monitoring tool focused in automation" May 14, 2023 5.0 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 Review Source Janne M. Technical Product Manager Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A cloud-native jack of all trades" April 5, 2021 4.0 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". 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. Alternatives considered [Zabbix](https://www.capterra.com/p/135902/Zabbix-Monitoring-Solution/)[Nagios Core](https://www.capterra.com/p/152751/Nagios-Core/) Reason 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. Review Source sS sila S. System & Monitoring Engineer Logistics and Supply Chain Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Icinga-Admin for over 9 Years" June 20, 2023 5.0 Pros the modularity, the open source aspect, the "check what you want, you just need the right plugin"-aspect Cons because there is much room for improvement and corrections, issues / feature requests are handled quite slow as long as you are now paying customer. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Honors Computer Science Student Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Icinga2 is an excellent contender in the monitoring world" April 17, 2018 5.0 Monitoring is a question to be considered carefully -- rarely is a solution one-size-fits-all. Icinga2 is a great option for basic monitoring. Pros Icinga2 fills a niche very similar to that of the Nagios project. Where Icinga excels (over Nagios) is in the niceties of its configuration language, as well as many advanced features. As an open source project, Icinga offers a free, open, and complete solution for most operation monitoring. In particular, Icinga is great for monitoring hosts and alerting on basic metrics. Cons There are a few disadvantages of Icinga -- the frontend is php, the stack is fairly monolithic, and the architecture does not take advantage of time-series databases. Having used (and set up) both monolithic monitoring infrastructure and pipelined infrastructure, I have found that although the monolithic (nagios/icinga2) systems have a much lower barrier to entry, a pipelined architecture tends to be more maintainable for more advanced requirements. Review Source DE Dylan E. Software Programmer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The ultimate tool for server monitoring " February 7, 2018 5.0 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. 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. Review Source Yasser A. Chief Executive Officer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best Monitoring Platform for your Clients" April 6, 2022 4.0 Can monitor any needed service and is easily customizable with fast deployment and scalable architecture Pros I like how easy Icinga is for my clients to monitor their large network, They easily learn how to use it through its clearly documentation, After getting the setup down for them they easily get their job done. Cons There's some complexity during the installation, There's also lack of extensions to power it up and their team isn't updating it frequently Alternatives considered [Checkmk](https://www.capterra.com/p/181692/Check-MK/) Review Source vK vijay K. software engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "It works. And it's free and flexible." April 5, 2018 5.0 It does the all basic monitoring you need. Pros It's open source. It has most basic monitoring functionalities that you need. Also, it can literally monitor anything. You can use Nagios plugins and very easy to create your owns and add to monitoring. You can customize it to your needs. Very few issues and keeps running. Cons Icinga Community is great there. But for some of the issues, it is very hard to find resolutions faster. I felt the user documentation had not been that helpful sometimes. But they have improved a lot. Review Source GA Glyn A. Senior DBA Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent evoloution of Nagion" September 20, 2018 4.0 Good 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. Review Source Ramona E. Product Specialist & Software Engineer Industrial Automation Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Complete application for all you server monitoring needs" June 30, 2018 4.0 We use this to monitor and collect data of all our servers. Pros Icinga has many great features, such as per-user notification periods, resource templates and performance data storage. It can use all available Nagios plugins, so you gain access to the entire community plugins suite. Cons Icinga is difficult to set up, especially if you use the command line for this. The associated web interface can not be customized and responds a bit slow. Review Source Guillermo R. security analyst Telecommunications Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "great monitoring tool" November 21, 2019 5.0 happy about this tool as is simple and not difficult to use. Pros very simple monitoring GUI, that make it easy to search for devices or services that you are monitoring. Cons the search sometimes does not return the result i was looking for and had to use another words to find what i was looking for. Review Source Similar Products Featured