Icinga vs ServiceNow IT Operations Management comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Icinga
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
21st
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (21st), Server Monitoring (9th), Cloud Monitoring Software (19th)
ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (2nd), Cloud Management (9th), AIOps (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Icinga is 4.7%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is 2.8%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Unique Categories:
Network Monitoring Software
4.5%
Server Monitoring
16.7%
Event Monitoring
18.8%
Cloud Management
1.5%
 

Featured Reviews

Lasse Wackers - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 4, 2023
It's a flexible platform that has powerful automation capabilities, but it's complicated and hard to learn
We are a managed services provider, so we use Icinga to monitor our customers' Windows and Linux systems. Furthermore, we are performing basic checks on their applications (like Databases, Web servers, mail servers, or other applications).  We use Icinga to measure the services our customers are…
Sukkanta Banerjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 31, 2022
Track daily tickets, SLAs, and create dashboards
I give the solution an eight out of ten. The solution is used wherever there is an operations activity in our organization. It is hard to say exactly how many people are using the solution but it is a lot. We have a support team that consists of six to eight people used for deployment and maintenance. We definitely have plans to increase the usage of the solution, because, considering the current market trend, the ServiceNow IT Operations Management usage will increase in long run. I recommend this solution. The reason is it's cost-effective, number one. Number two, many of the processes got recently automated in it, like checking the major incidents. When triggered, it will be notified according to the configuration set. Any people can create a dashboard to get a quick view of the SLS.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is really easy in Icinga to create your own plugin and integrate it without any fuss. And it works just perfectly fine."
"I like the ability to amend and adjust things really easily, which is useful in a case where you could make it auto-discover and then set a template to say all of these applications or servers under this template have an automatic threshold set that you’d set up manually."
"The apply rules feature saves a lot of time."
"Macros and the ability to connect it to Google Maps are valuable features."
"The ability to customize scripts and build your own queries to request information from the infrastructure elements you want to monitor. This level of personalization and customization is highly appreciated."
"The best thing about the solution is how it highlights errors, the issues, and what needs my attention. The solution directs me to areas that I should look for first."
"The value of Icinga is that it has hundreds of plugins, so it's really easy to monitor pretty much anything."
"This solution has a self-healing handler where if the service is down, it is automatically restarted."
"ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a stable product."
"It is a product that is familiar for a lot of users."
"I like the solution due to the fact that it's scalable."
"It is easy to use and simple to learn."
"The asset management tools are very valuable."
"It includes a valuable feature called Discovery, that aids in application portfolio management, enabling visibility into IT infrastructure from top to bottom."
"It helps streamline management and processes."
"It has been very useful for tracking. It has evolved a lot over time, and there is a single pane of glass where you can track and see everything."
 

Cons

"One thing that Icinga lacks is the capability to create advanced and customized dashboards within the tool itself."
"There is room for improvement in multi-tenancy. It's not perfect, not even really good. It's average, but it should be improved."
"It needs Trap SNMP. I saw the documentation for Zabbix, that it has its own built-in product which handles SNMP traps, and there's nothing similar in Icinga or Nagios. I think this feature is most important for me."
"At this time, the layout of the website is a bit difficult. It should be more user-friendly for changing the background and logos."
"We have found some problems with Nagios, and support isn't very responsive."
"Icinga is a complex solution that's hard to learn. It's a powerful product for monitoring, but new users will have a hard time figuring out what to do."
"One of the areas that are frustrating is remote monitoring for more than one machine."
"The installation and configuration are very complex."
"Regarding ServiceNow, there is room for improvement in terms of customization, particularly in the area of self-customization."
"The pattern part can be improved. Patterns are used in the Discovery feature. Although it is easy to create new patterns and modify the existing ones, it would be better if this solution can have more out-of-the-box patterns. In terms of new features, they can include artificial intelligence, something like machine learning."
"There is room for improvement in the stability of ServiceNow."
"The initial setup phase was hard and could be made easier."
"The most complaints we have received from our clients are the solution's discovery aspect. I've heard a few concerns from the customers where we have to integrate with a third-party tool to make a full-fledged discovery along with ServiceNow. ServiceNow alone does not do the total capacity of the discovery. The discovery portion of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is not in-depth as what the customers are looking for. The information that it gathers from the assets is a little more limited than what other tools provide."
"ServiceNow IT Operations Management could be improved by providing more user customization options."
"Lacks the ability to do its own monitoring."
"The product needs to add a workflow insight tool."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is free to use."
"This is an open-source solution with paid support."
"We're using the free version of Icinga."
"The product is inexpensive compared to other DBM products."
"It's an open-source solution."
"The solution is cheap."
"Even though Icinga's financial cost is low, it is an expensive product regarding the resources required to maintain and operate it."
"It is cost-effective, and the return on investment can be very interesting because the price is low."
"While not entirely sure, I believe the solution costs at least a million dollars annually."
"The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses."
"There are additional costs, you have to pay more for everything."
"It is expensive. It is around 10 Euros per server per month."
"It is moderately expensive. The pricing itself and the licensing options are depending on the model and the customization."
"This solution offers good value but comes at a very high premium. Pricing could be reduced by 10 to 20%."
"ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a costly solution. I'd rate the price at ten, on a scale from one to ten with one being the lowest and ten being the highest price. Some clients do have a problem with the price, but most find that the solution is worth the cost."
"The price of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Icinga?
The best thing about the solution is how it highlights errors, the issues, and what needs my attention. The solution directs me to areas that I should look for first.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Icinga?
It is cost-effective, and the return on investment can be very interesting because the price is low. If you want to include this product in the services you offer to your customers, the return on i...
What needs improvement with Icinga?
There is room for improvement in multi-tenancy. It's not perfect, not even really good. It's average, but it should be improved. For instance, multi-tenancy for monitoring the virtual infrastructur...
What do you like most about ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
From my perspective as an asset manager, the most valuable feature of the solution is the configuration management portion, where I can actively add something to the database.
 

Also Known As

Icinga Cloud Monitoring
ServiceNow ITOM
 

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Sample Customers

Puppet Labs, Audi, Spacex, Debian, Snapdeal, McGill, RIPE Network Coordination Centre
servicenow, TransAlta, NATS, Symantec
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